More World Names?

[AsidMjolnir]

Okay, so a little backdrop here. I started off as Earth, United Nations of Earth, to be exact. I now have ~180 planets through conquest, diplomacy, et cetera. Now I'm colonizing, and it's gotten to the point where the AI has decided that I need 4 or 5 worlds named Terra Nova. Ditto "Nozomi". A few others. Any way to edit the list of names the AI hands out, so we can add in, I dunno, a few thousand more? Because when you're aiming for that "40% of habital worlds" goal... you're going to have a lot of repeated names at this rate.

Now, yes, I know, sectors should be the ones doing everything so I shouldn't need to worry about the names, but I'm the kind of guy where I like to keep an eye on the news at the top and sometimes scroll through my colony list and make sure nothing stands out that the AI screwed up. Which gets to be annoying when it's "such and so has happened at on the colony of Terra Nova", because that becomes a "well, GREEAT! Which one?"
Yes, I know that clicking that news box will take me directly at it, but if I'm going at a breakneck pace on something else I'm focusing on and put it off until after it times out, hunting down which Terra Nova is a pain in the tail.

[dracos24]

Quite easy via mods, afaik.

[Kitten Food]

I am sure they will add more names with updates. The list is quite short and they could at least have them default to the star names after you run out of species specific names. As it is well known, they rushed to get the game out before Hearts of Iron 4...so it isn't polished yet.

[AsidMjolnir]

Originally posted by dracos24:

Quite easy via mods, afaik.

True, but I'm kinda trying to avoid mods right now, especially because I'd rather add in my own names at the moment.

Originally posted by KiteMasaki:

I am sure they will add more names with updates. The list is quite short and they could at least have them default to the star names after you run out of species specific names. As it is well known, they rushed to get the game out before Hearts of Iron 4...so it isn't polished yet.

Yeah, I figured it would be something like that. As much as I like Paradox's games, I don't like their business strategy, especially with the piecemeal DLC for things like EU4. I looked at the total price at one point for all of it (not including base game) at like $100 - 200. Was blown away.

[Kitten Food]

Originally posted by AsidMjolnir:

Yeah, I figured it would be something like that. As much as I like Paradox's games, I don't like their business strategy, especially with the piecemeal DLC for things like EU4. I looked at the total price at one point for all of it (not including base game) at like $100 - 200. Was blown away.

I don't think star/planet names will cost money though. they will just be parts of the free patches, so basically you are getting it just at a later date. I admit,personally I would have wanted to wait for them to release the game till next spring, but I understand they need cash flow and also this was an opportunity to introduce a ton of gamers to Hearts of Iron's release.

[AsidMjolnir]

Oh, yeah, I know that it'll likely be a free patch, but if they'd waited until next spring, like you said, the game might've been a little more complete.

[dracos24]

Funny thing is, even with the total cost of the content DLCs, the cost/money ratio for EU4 & CK2 are among the best on steam for me.

But yeah...

making your own mod meets all your criteria so far...

its free, and it can be whatever names you want.

if you want something done right, do it yourself.

[AsidMjolnir]

Agreed, about doing mods myself. Just ugh.
And I do agree, EU4 & CK2 are good games, just holy crud, like for the music packs and the advisor portraits, and all, it's like "seriously? You're not going to toss us that as part of the bigger DLCs or for free?" It's just annoying.

[Kevik70]

In the steam folder there is a bunch of files for names, forget how exactly to get to that folder but they are there. I imagine you can just edit that list and add as many new names as you want. Haven't tried doing that yet but it seems pretty straight forward adding in more names.

[Ficelle]

In case you dontt know, you can rename planets, just double click on the name.

Easiest way to keep things in order.

[AsidMjolnir]

True, but having to rename every planet and trying to recall which ones are the ones I wanted to rename is which is getting to be a hassle. Adding in a few dozen/hundred more names to the master list would save me a headache now and later down the line.

And thanks, Kevik. Figured it would be something like that.

[Aurumlamina]

Originally posted by Ficelle:

In case you dontt know, you can rename planets, just double click on the name.

Easiest way to keep things in order.