GalCiv2: Star Name Mod 2010

[Stuie]

While I wait for all the games I bought recently to get properly patched, I went back to GalCiv. Even bought Twilight of the Arnor to make it all new and fresh.

So as always, I ran into my biggest annoyance with GalCiv - the silly star names. And once again, having lost the original version, I built a new "real" star names file. Thought I'd share in case anyone is interested:

Star Name Mod

Just unzip it into the data directory for the version you are playing - might want to back up the old one first:

DL: \Stardock Games\GalCiv2\Data\English
DA: \Stardock Games\GalCiv2\DarkAvatar\Data\English
TA: \Stardock Games\GalCiv2\Twilight\Data\English

Sample star names from my list:

Phi Velorum
Kappa Arae
Mu Ophiuchi
Iota Cephei
L1154 29
I Hydrae
33 Lambda Ursae Majoris
L480 69
DM+59 1915B
Sigma Ophiuchi
4 Psi Pegasi
Beta Scorpii
Unukalhai
Kappa Telescopii
Eta Aurigae
Mirach
Omicron Capricorni
Beta Arietis
Xi Mensae
Iota Gruis
DM-42 5678
Chi 2 Orionis
Beta Arae

Have fun.

[DarkCloud]

Game you bought recently... "Elemental" by any chance?

[Stuie]

Actually it was "games" plural. And yes, Elemental would be one.

[SewerStarFish]

See, I love the silly names. Everytime the "Claire" system appears I laugh and the B-52's song reminds me that its inhabitants have no hair.

[Quintillus]

Sounds cool, some more variety in star names would certainly be nice. But a bigger annoyance, for me, was always the boring planet names, though. Sirius I, Sirius II, Sirius III, Sirius IV, etc.... no imagination there at all except Earth, Mars, and the 'real' planets. I've never looked into GalCiv modding, but do you know if it would be reasonably easy to make planet names randomly chosen and thus more interesting?

[blacksunshining]

nice, didn't know where the file was to change this aspect until I saw this thread. I'm more interested in changing starnames in-game, like you can worldnames.

[crampon]

I totally agree with u.