What are your star naming conventions?

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Anything beyond 5 plants get had to keep straight with names thought up by others. Fortunaly we can think of our own, here's mine:

Being that my empire is the FIST OF JOHN I name my systems as follows:

Largest Planet size in System 15-19 I rename to Finger Finger1, Finger2, etc..
Largest Planet size in System 14-under I rename to Knuckle Knuckle1, Kuckle2, etc...
Largest Planet size in System 20+ I rename to Fist Right Fist, Left Fist, Cock Fist, etc...

Any systems with generally worthless planets I use for hunting good/evil events or as a tradable resource get demeaning names like "Throw away pet", "Throw away pet Stepchild", or "Babbling drooling Retard".

So what are your Star naming conventions? I'm curious to see what some of you use..

~SDC~
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
I use a geographic convention.

For central systems I use name such as Tau Ceti Central, Prima, etc...

For south systems, I use name of Arabic-Asiatic cities : Samarkand, Thebes...

North systems : nordic deities : Odin, Thor, Loki...

For strategic systems : military names : Sparta, Achilles, Hector.

For far away planets : Hope 1, Hope 2... or Lone Star 1, 2, etc.

But perhaps naming according to the size of the planet is better... I may add +, ++, +++ after the names...


Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
I play with a paper map in front of me which I keep notes on. It makes things so much easier!

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Inner Sphere planets from Battletech... specifically, Draconis Combine planets... it's the name of my empire, after all...
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
I just add the sector coordinates and some planet class designation to the the original system name. For example, "(10.04)* Sol". The numbers are added in front since the game automatically attaches Roman numerals to the end when reporting planets.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Star Wars planet names

Hoth, Coruscant(High Lvl Planet), Commenor, Folor, Kuat (Military Ship Producing Planet), Correlia, Sluis Van (Military Ship Producing planet, Ryloth, Yavin (Got to have 4 planets with 4th planet being hospitable Yavin IV)

Just use ones either from Rebellion or the expanded universe. Also changed my ship names to reflect Imperial ships and such as well as change the Alien races to Star Wars...Hope I am not going a little overboard here....just wish I could get my wife that Princess Leia Slave outfit in ROTJ but getting her to wear it would be the next hardest thing...LOL
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
I name them after countries

New Germany - Industrial Core
New Britian - Commerece Core
New France - Tech Core
and my favorite name from that Scheme is New Byzantium

~SDC~
Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
"Whatever the game gives me. Sheesh, get a life people."

Go throw a boomerang at a koala, and fix your teeth while your at it.

~SDC~
Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top
HAY! No bad mouthing Australia ... mate! >:(

We don't all live in the middle of a sheep paddock, riding kangaroos to work - that's just a lifestyle preference I have :D

As for Stars and stuff, name them after mythical creatures, like Pegasus, Griffin etc ...
Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top
I was going to mention something about Crocodile Dundee, but I figured that would be hitting too far below the belt. :)

~SDC~
Reply #12 from Stardock Forums Top
"Whatever the game gives me. Sheesh, get a life people."


Hey I bet you'd have the same reaction I'm having to your comment if someone heard that you play video games "Get a life"

Look I do what makes my game fun for me and you do what makes it fun for you but don't go putting people down because of it, were all here to have fun with the game not nitpick
Reply #13 from Stardock Forums Top
I do the same thing as Verenti. A few other examples:

New China: My breeding pits
New Iran: All missiles, all the time
New Tibet, New Gaza, New Golan, New Kashmir...: Systems I took by force :D
New Tajikistan: Worthless in every way but I put a colony here anyway :p
Reply #15 from Stardock Forums Top
Generally name my planets after characters in whatever book or series of books I'm currently reading.
Often end up using X-men character names :d
Reply #16 from Stardock Forums Top
I keep all the same, but my top planet gets a British themed name. United Kingdom, Great Britain, Britannia, Brittany, etc.
Reply #17 from Stardock Forums Top
Can you name planets in systems?

I haven't figured out how to do that yet...

Thanks

TFM

~SDC~
Reply #19 from Stardock Forums Top
I've never changed a planet name...seems like a colossal waste of time to me. But I do rename starbases late in the game on a big map. I generally name sector starbases (the production and trade boosters) after the biggest system in the sector. I generally name resource starbases after the resource and compass directions i.e. Martial Far West etc. This makes it easier to manage the constructor caravans I send out so that I know which is which.
Reply #20 from Stardock Forums Top
Fist, Darn... I want to be able to have Rukbat, Pern, Red Star etc...

Is there anyway to mod your own star system?

Also what is Sol IV???

TFM

~SDC~
Reply #21 from Stardock Forums Top
I basically have two systems for naming planets:

1) I use system names from the Niven/Pournelle CoDominium/Empire universe ("The Mote in God's Eye", et al.) e.g., Sparta, St. Ekaterina, Tanith, Friedland, Santiago, Tabletop, Makassar, New Caledonia, Sauron, etc.

2) I use the names of classic Hollywood actresses (Monroe, Russell, Hayworth, Grable, Lamarr, Rogers, Gaynor, Shearer, Bacall, Darnell, MacDonald, etc.)

If I get ahold of enough colonizable systems, I sometimes use both systems simultaneously.
Incidentially, in the OS/2 version, you _were_ able to name individual planets within systems (which enabled me to have New Scotland and New Ireland in the New Caledonia system, for instance.) I hope this feature might be resurrected in a later update.
Reply #22 from Stardock Forums Top
Star Trek and Star Wars planet names, whichever ones come to mind first, although I haven't gone into detail with system names like Kuat, Dantooine, et cetera. Also use the names of US and British cities (Manchester, London, Leeds, Atlanta, Orlando, and so forth).

Great ideas here though. The creativity here is impressive...

Offholdr

~SDC~
Reply #23 from Stardock Forums Top
If I get a planet event (e.g. +49 shipyard), I put the info in the name (e.g. Darth,+49ship). The UI does not easily distinguish these special systems.

Planet naming would be even better.
Reply #24 from Stardock Forums Top
My naming list:

Alabaster, Beryl, Corundum, Diamond, Emerald, Fluorine, Garnet, Hematite, Ilmenite, Jasper, Kaolinite, Lapis Lazuli, Malachite, Nephiline, Opal, Plagioclase, Quartz, Ruby, Sphene, Tourmaline, Uvarovite, Vesuvianite, Williamsite, Xenotine, Yttrium, Zeolite

Can you tell I was a Geology major?

M
Reply #25 from Stardock Forums Top
tfm, Sol IV is, technically Mars (Earth is Sol III). So when you got Sol IV and V, it's a bit strange (Mars and Jupiter, except you already have Mars available).

I'd rename planets, but renaming stars is somewhat useless to me. I'd like to call a planet "Second Earht", but I can only get "Second Earth IV" or "Second Sol II", which is a pity.