For my elite: frontier clone, I generate random names for solar systems, and currently I use a system with random prefixes and random syllabes. Some names that are generated are nice, others are somewhat weird. It generates 400000 * 400000 of those names because that's the amount of stars in the galaxy of this game. Here's a screenshot of some of the names it generates ("Sol" wasn't generated but pre-programmed)

Do you think those names are al(l)right? Do you think people would care if this system would accidently generated an offensive name (I saw a star named "Dik" somewhere).

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MotionCoil

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November 21, 2005 06:02 AM

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]

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boolean

1,830

November 21, 2005 08:04 AM

haha, there is a system named Gory

benryves

2,001

November 21, 2005 08:14 AM

"Eta Burga"? (right centre) Pfffffft!

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Fahrenheit451

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November 21, 2005 09:27 AM

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!

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necreia

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November 21, 2005 09:32 AM

Spameal <-- [lol]

klems

513

November 21, 2005 10:09 AM

"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.

The Frugal Gourmet

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November 21, 2005 10:32 AM

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.

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smart_idiot

1,298

November 21, 2005 11:57 AM

Soon the entire copter system will be mine!

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

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