Renaming Systems and Naming Planets

[FREAK_115]

It'd be cool if we would be able to rename systems to give the game some flavour. or to name planets to something like "Pandaria" or "Hoth" or whatever movie/game reference you want to make!

 

[BackToTheMud]

Because the score apon scores of fleet carriers named nostromo isn't boring enough. It would of course be nice to freely name systems/planets, but you have wonderfully explaining why that idea is terrible. Well done, mate.

 

[aRJay]

Because the score apon scores of fleet carriers named nostromo isn't boring enough. It would of course be nice to freely name systems/planets, but you have wonderfully explaining why that idea is terrible. Well done, mate.

It amazes me that there are so many Joseph Conrad readers playing Elite.

 

[Dillon Fallon]

This is what I'd call my first system I could name.

 

[Uthael]

There'd be and awful lot of references to male genitals. I imagine someone would claim an empty system with two stars in it just to name it "My Big Balls". Or claim a fast spinning Neutron Star / White Dwarf just to name it "Vibrator".

This freedom shouldn't exist. Not in this game, at least. Fleet Carriers are fine.

 

[Raedawn]

There are a lot of people that Mommy didn't love enough that would go about the galaxy dumping T1 garbage so they could name it, Commander Sombody 1, Commander Sombobdy 2, Commander Somebody 3, etc.

This game doesn't need to give T1 garbage dumpers any more reasons to pollute the galaxy.

p.s. Full disclosure, I named a few items in my system after Raedawn so.....guilty.

 

[AngryAntz]

People already complain about others "griefing" them by taking systems.

Just imagine how many salty tears would flow if someone took their planned system name, because only they would have thought of the name "Deep Space 9" or whatever.

 

[Raedawn]

Navigation nightmares ahead as systems across the galaxy have their names changed on the regular. Elite Dangerous would update but 3rd party tools like Inara would not do so and a lot of use it as our core item search since the in-game tools are trash-worthy.

 

[metatheurgist]

Fleet Carriers are fine.

I have seen many atrocious FC names and far too many Nostromos & Event Horizons.

 

[KRISXR]

Seriously can't believe all the threads about this since trailblazer launch. I agree with everyone who stated why this is a horrible idea. They just keep beating that poor dead horse.

 

[Elyssaen]

It'd be a cool idea if and only if you magically were restricted from doing what you want – naming things after things in films or other games, or references to bodily functions, or whatever. It's bad enough I already have to fly by Menstruation Station to land at an outpost architected by CMDR BigBallz.

 

[sidereal6]

I already have to fly by Menstruation Station to land at an outpost architected by CMDR BigBallz.

The obvious solution is that each individual player should be able to create a local (to your PC) name.

It’d work just like bookmarks. Select a system or station, and rename it. And only you see it. It could show up in a different color - that’s fine.

Missions are already created via a script that has a syntax like “deliver $tons $commodity to $station in $system” so it’d be a simple matter to have them use the local name.

Let FDev collect money (which funds development) to let players name their systems bigbalz. But let individual players rename the systems locally.

 

[Uthael]

The obvious solution is that each individual player should be able to create a local (to your PC) name.

It’d work just like bookmarks. Select a system or station, and rename it. And only you see it. It could show up in a different color - that’s fine.

Missions are already created via a script that has a syntax like “deliver $tons $commodity to $station in $system” so it’d be a simple matter to have them use the local name.

Let FDev collect money (which funds development) to let players name their systems bigbalz. But let individual players rename the systems locally.

That's actually a good idea! Instead, make custom names a cosmetic change players can opt into.

Example idea of how it could work:
You choose to opt into it from the galaxy map settings. It gives some PEGI warning. When you confirm, you start seeing systems and stations with names players have given them. If more than one player decided on a system's name, the system takes the name which most players have chosen. If it's a tie, the one who did it first takes priority. When you click on a system to read more about it, it also shows a few contender names so people can "vote" which name to use.

I would expect Deciat to be mass-vote renamed into "FSD Engineer" and Shinrata Dezhra into "Home".

 

[Number7_menon]

If it is customised by the commander, I would need to add a prefix, e.g. the commander's name, so that it can be filtered by the presence or absence of the prefix.