Naming stars?

[Harry Seldon]

That sounds like a good opportunity for political back scratching. I like it.

[Gilgamensch]

Sounds like a good reason to complain about the Pres

[Arnelos]

Even better... new administrations can creatively RE-name already named systems to change with the new ideological times... think St. Petersburg -> Leningrad -> St. Petersburg.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

And here I was thinking of using something similiar to the Civ 3 Demogame.

"Ghengisplanet"

Just kidding............

[Old n Slow]

Or we could specify a system method such as

Three letters for former name -- Dra (Draconis)

A number for planets -- 3 with a slash for potential planets (asteroids & gas giants)

With key letters for descripters -- R = Rich, A = Average, L = large, H = Huge, etc.

In fact, we might limit ourselves to only one letter of best feature per planet, Average or better, thus a string of four or five letters (Dra 4/5 GRRH) would display a terrific system, and a Dra 1/3 would have a boring planet with two potential planets and Dra 0/0 would have no planets at all.

[Arnelos]

Hey, if you wanna name systems Borg-style when you're able to name them, be my guest. I'll just re-name them to something with a bit more style

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

I like stuff like the "Big Blue Blob". That would work for a planet name.............

[vmxa1]

Old n Slow if I was to rename them, I probably would use some sort of system like you suggest.
In Space Empires I name my ships like that CA-I2 to denote it is a crusier with 2 I type engines. I may add other characters to let me know what the type of weapons. This makes it easy to see what ones need upgrades.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

/me thinks at least one planet needs to be named "Bob"......

[Arnelos]

Originally posted by GhengisFarb
* GhengisFarb thinks at least one planet needs to be named "Bob"......

Indeed

[Gilgamensch]

Let's start with our home system:

How shall we call our home system?

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by Gilgamensch
Let's start with our home system:

How shall we call our home system?

Bob.

[Arnelos]

Originally posted by GhengisFarb

Bob.

That would be appopriate, but so would Apolyton

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

If we have multiple planets they can be Big Bob and Little Bob and Bobette.

Besides Apolyton already got voted down once for our starting system name.

[Gilgamensch]

Originally posted by GhengisFarb
If we have multiple planets they can be Big Bob and Little Bob and Bobette.

Besides Apolyton already got voted down once for our starting system name.

We can only name the system AFAIR........ not the planets......