Looks like this was fixed in the 1.3.3.3 public beta.

GAME EDITOR
• changing the name of a star or planet in the Game Editor now also changes the related location name

And what I do is just immediately grant the colony independence if it's too far away. No need to use the editor.

Think of it as you having researched a way to get more out of your existing components. No hardware changes, just the ship's chief engineer being told a better way of running the component that was discovered through research back home.

I always play on the largest galaxy size, and it's always littered with many duplicate system names. I've never seen it not have many duplicate names, so just spinning up a new game should demonstrate the issue.

scotten_usa wrote: Wed Jun 18, 2025 2:19 am Discord? No one invited me

Go to the Steam page, there's a link at the end of every article in Recent Events & Announcements.

On Discord today, Erik said the next public beta will be end of next week, or early the week after.

The fact that it happens after playing a while, and disappears on a reload, suggests a memory leak to me. If so, then it will be fixable if they can pin it down.

- added Extremely Slow Research speed option in Start New Game screen. This new setting is half the speed of Very Slow research speed

Wow

Yeah, I'm a little baffled as to what it might be. Unless you accidentally have ship design on manual without realizing it, so you're still using intro tech on all of your ships, even though you have better techs?

As far as I know, the AI gets no bonuses to combat, they play by the same rules as ...

Won't this change add a lot of micromanagement? Previously if a planet or star showed it had hidden resources I could plunk a mine there and forget about it and eventually the resource would show up. Now I will (I guess?) have to manually do further exploration, maybe after new exploration tech ...

fruitgnome wrote: Mon Nov 18, 2024 4:43 pm Known from where? I want also write there. <- This I asked already 2 times.

They're a software company, they almost certainly have their own QA testers (as well as closed beta testers) that will have channels for reporting bugs that aren't open to the public.

Along with it, it would be good to fix the problem of duplicate system names.

There's no point in posting these without including saves that demonstrate the issues.

Understood, thanks!

I'm seeing this too, definitely different than previous versions.

I have mixed feelings. Some of those super high discovery level things would get locked behind late game tech if you couldn't use a mining station to discover them. I can see how that could be a good thing, adding some continuous discovery throughout the game. The only concern I'd have is that ...

What is the Teekan population on the planet? Can't quite see it in the screenshot. To be able to load colonists, the planet must have more than 500M inhabitants + the number of colonists you will be loading. So for the early game colony ships, there needs to be 530M inhabitants of that race.

Nilserich7 wrote: Tue Oct 01, 2024 3:04 pm what exactly the preferences are for individual races.

Oh, and if you choose the race in the setup, in the description along the side, it will list the preferred types for it.

Yes, I often leave them on Random, and they always seem to choose something appropriate - usually one of the preferred government types, but certainly never a disallowed one.

- The Atuuk (coming in the first post-expansion faction DLC) are somewhat unique in their near-immunity to psychic influence/attack

One of the advantages of not having brains I guess!