Do you name the species you discover?

[Leander.quest]

Personally, I don't want to. As naming animals or plants after singers, actors, cartoon characters or using stupid names on purpose isn't lore-friendly I just upload them but leaving the random names which are scientific anyway (some sound Latin and realistic - German version).

I only manually name a few species after friends ("hey, the new species I will discover is you") but slightly adjusting the name so it sounds more scientific.

[bugulu]

Nope. Never named a specie, planet, outpost or anything at all.

[Nut]

Named my home planet and system but aside from that nah, I like to keep everything sciency ;)

[Captain Giggity]

No, I only name systems and planets. Although I did see a really goofy looking species and named it Dorkasauras just for kicks.

[MacMarkov]

I like give them drunken names

[oliveone]

I leave the names alone as they are part of a universal taxonomy, and I have observed these creatures IRL and that's what they're named.

[Ottofyre]

I name creatures but I name them with descriptors plus a shortened version of their original name.

Like "Emerald Orrmerc" or "Plated Takanoe" or "Razor-Backed Requusva".

[Sekkuar666]

"Lore friendly"?
We are explorers. In real life, if you find a new species, you get to name it whatever you want.

[CBCRonin]

Yep, if they are unique looking. The giant flying dragon worms were named Draconis Flagellum and the giant two story tall mothman meat eating psycopath was named Mothmanicum Horrendous.

[BaneBlackGuard]

I name them if i think they are cool, both planets and animals. i dont name plants.

if it doesn't catch my attention, it doesn't get a special name.

[anynamewilldo]

hey op.i renamed you Bean de Fat

[ergico]

I name System and planets only using latin/greek words depending on what I get inspired from: type of the first animal I meet, weather conditions, etc etc :)

[Whatever]

Before game launched I created a spreadsheet to generate random names for planets and critters. When I need a new name for someting I just reload the spreadsheet and bam I got a new name. I am renaming everything I discover.

[OtherWhiteMatt]

i only name planets with rare resources so i know which one had which resource when im in a system for a long time. Animals i only name if i can come up with one that seems fitting like (one I think i named the Great horned dodo, because thats exactly what it looked like, a large dodo with horns)

[war4peace]

Originally posted by LeanderAT:

Personally, I don't want to. As naming animals or plants after singers, actors, cartoon characters or using stupid names on purpose isn't lore-friendly I just upload them but leaving the random names which are scientific anyway (some sound Latin and realistic - German version).

I only manually name a few species after friends ("hey, the new species I will discover is you") but slightly adjusting the name so it sounds more scientific.

Lore friendly? The Lore is very thin.
I give planets informative names, for example "Albumen Galore" or "Toxic Emeril".

[Exto]

I would very quickly run out of names to give, so I let the name generator do their work :D