random solar system names

They look pretty cool for randomly generated names. Nicely done![grin]
Inparticular I like the name Noax.
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I feel you should be sure to make the race from galaxies like 'Splintula' and 'spameal' particularly violent [wink]
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If you are worried, you could put in a safeguard against potentially offensive names by checking them against a pre-programmed list of black-listed names and possible corruptions. If its the same then regenerate.

However, i wouldn't worry too much [smile]

haha, there is a system named Gory

"Eta Burga"? (right centre) Pfffffft!

Unless you are expecting people to have to remember the names for whatever reason. For example; go here and buy that, take it there and do this etc. (I'm not familiar with Elite so I don't know if this is part of the game plan or not). You could of course overcome that by having some indicator/marker to hint where they need to go etc. Otherwise, they sound cool and very well done for random names. Nice job!

F451

Spameal <-- [lol]

"DA Spama" (lower left center)... [lol]

I wouldn't worry about a solar system accidentally being called "dik" or "bukkake" or whatever. Most people who'd play that kind of game probably wouldn't care about it.

Cool idea. Looks good.

Latin and Greek prefixes and suffixes might be useful for your concatenations (I see you're already using some). Also, maybe some Arabic since some stars have Arabic names.

Soon the entire copter system will be mine!

The names seem to be pretty good to me. They seem awfully close together, though.

i find these really cool, so i'd leave them as they are ;)

M.C. Zoni IN DA GALAXY!!!11

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Original post by smart_idiotThey seem awfully close together, though.

Nah, the milkyway is 3000 lightyears thick, the stars are far apart in that direction, you just can't see that on a 2D map, it's an easy simplification :)

Their new game is a twist on Tiger Woods 2005, @(11,7)

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What's homoveld doing near slaplex? Pervert!

That looks like a pretty good collection of names. For some reason I like "Gomer", "Loven", "Mo", "Susen", "Jak", "NC Splinty" and "666 Splintus" [smile].

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Original post by smart_idiot Soon the entire copter system will be mine!

including rofl- and wafflecopter?

I remember that Elite did the same thing and they spent a few days looking over the output for naughty words. [grin]

But yeah, looks great -- and it's awesome that it runs on Linux. Good work! Lemme know if you need any help/ports/testing.

Awesome, keep me posted.

Also, read my PM.

Nice... the world needs more procedural content.

As for "easter eggs"... well, as far as I'm concerned, that's just a bonus.

I don't know if your game makes the distinction, but you may look into making a few set of phonology rules based on the controlling region's language.

For example:

Race A has the sounds A, TA, TU, VE. VE may never appear after an A, and TU may never be the first syllable - unless separated by a glottal stop.

Tu'vea, Atave, Veveta, and so on.

Race B has the sounds GA, LU, TOR, MAS, NAL, AS. LU may never be the initial syllable, and the M in MAS changes to V when the previous syllable ends in a vowel.

Masga, Torluvas, Nalluas, Tormasnal.

And so on. From there you generate names based on those races' rules. It will create a much more natural looking distinction between a group's boundaries. Of course, I also recommend the ability for the player to have an alias name for a system - in some cases, a planet I commonly travel to would ring a better bell if it sounded much more natural to me, as opposed to whatever the locals call it. On further thought, unless you're assuming that all systems are known by the player prior to playing, you could use a simple index system to name uncharted systems, thus allowing the player to either learn or choose the name for new systems.

Just a thought. [smile]