Names need work

[2ndACR]

Okay, love the game but you need to work on the planet names. This is unedited and just colonized. LOL

[Litjan]

This planet should have a REALLY low colony development modifier...

[Gelatinous Cube]

lmao, really?

[ASHBERY76]

Too much wine?

[2ndACR]

I have a save right after it was colonized. And yes, this was game generated. I have never even looked at the editor.

I saw it pop up as colonized and was like "no way, I am seeing things". LOL

[ASHBERY76]

The game systems.txt has no shit.

[Nedrear]

Ashberry the Moons of planets - in contrast to main system planets - are not named after the system. E.G. don't get the Kapala Minor 1... 2...3 numbers.

But you are right. That seems modded as he shows a main sequence planet. It should be called XY 1-5.

[2ndACR]

Nope, not modded. Not sure how to prove it. It is in my home Sol system.

[tjhkkr]

Not modded? That seems hard to believe.
And if it was an easter egg, I am not sure that anyone would risk their job over it...

[Nedrear]

At least cut out your upper newsletter. Even that states your main colony in Sol is named Sol 4... which you are in right now.

[2ndACR]

Guys, I have been around a long time and have never done one of the joke posts. This is for real. This was really named this by the computer all on it's own.

Like I said above, I wish I could prove it was real. At least WITP will tell you when something has been modded. I have never opened the editor. Never.

[Nedrear]

Since that is the case - as you claim - why aren't you posting it in the tech thread, claiming it to be a mistake. After that ask Elliot if the moon table - which players can't edit - for the names got a Shit inside and if by some mistake main sequence planets can get it.
 
Otherwise we WILL take it as a joke further on.

[WoodMan]

Its a moon, the news above says **** has been colonized, so it was called **** before he colonized it.  If you look at the minimap the red dot is a gas giant, this colony is a moon around the gas giant.

I think in the past I had a moon named something like Crap or Crud, I did post it here in the forums at the time. Never seen anything like it since though.

[tjhkkr]

ORIGINAL: WoodMan
Its a moon, the news above says **** has been colonized, so it was called **** before he colonized it.  If you look at the minimap the red dot is a gas giant, this colony is a moon around the gas giant.
I think in the past I had a moon named something like Crap or Crud, I did post it here in the forums at the time. Never seen anything like it since though.

In that case, I would really like to be able to edit out the moon table...
BUT...

Did not Elliot say in this current version that all the planets and moons would follow a more traditional standard... or did he only mean planets?

[Nedrear]

Woodman depending on the resolution of units on the "map" it is in 50% star system range. Therefore the distance between red dot and your so called "two moons" including shit and the rock is a little high. That's a normal distance of main sequence planets.
If he wants to prove it to be a moon he simply needs to click on it while screenshoting and we can read "swamp moon". If it is one that is. Further you can edit and change planet names prior to colonization... I did it often enough.

[2ndACR]

Here is your screenshot.

But Nedrear, your tone needs to change. I have been around since the old AOW days, so I have no problems getting ugly. I am not a modder, never looked at the editor. I refrain from getting ugly now a days on Matrix, but I could care less what you think because you are not a member of Matrix or as far as I know Codeforce.

I thought it was funny because my 9 year old nephew was sitting in my lap when it popped up and the first thing he said was "it said a bad word".

And actually, only after I posted did I notice it was not in the support forum. But I know Erik from Matrix runs thru the recent posts so had no worries.

[tjhkkr]

I thought it was funny because my 9 year old nephew was sitting in my lap when it popped up and the first thing he said was "it said a bad word".
Yeah, I could see that being both funny and sad at the same time...

Wow, there really is a moon with that name...

[2ndACR]

I see moons with names all the time. Sometimes they are names and other times they are XYZ123.

But from looking at the way names are spelled in this game, I suspect it is a random generator that just puts letters together and not a list per se.

[tjhkkr]

ORIGINAL: 2ndACR
I see moons with names all the time. Sometimes they are names and other times they are XYZ123.
But from looking at the way names are spelled in this game, I suspect it is a random generator that just puts letters together and not a list per se.

Could be.
I seem to remember moons though having coherent names... but yes, it could be that he is pulling from some random or perhaps some random disk string.

[Ares106]

Is there a way that OP could post the first save before the game started.

As long as he didn't edit anything from the start there should be a way to tell if the save has not been modified by the edditor.

Anyway i had a blast reading this thread wether it's true or not. But wish some people didn't take it so seriousely.