[1.2 beta] New Colony random Name button not working

[TothAval]

The newly implemented button via the hotfix from thursday, 23rd of june, is not working. It generates one suggestion for a colony name and if i want to use it again, nothing is happening. It seems to me that it is only pulling one name from the namelist (maybe the first one, because it showed me some name with "A...)

The presented suggestion for my colony name isn't changed if i choose another colonization target. So no workaround possible.

 

[Federalist girl]

Yes, I can confirm I have the same issue -- playing as the humans, every time I hit random It just says "New Jerusalem" every time. That's the first name from the namelist on the generic planet list (not even the planet_continental list or whatnot).

 

[Dsingis]

I can confirm that bug.

I'm playing with mamal name list 3. It just says the same name every time I click on the button.
And I'm so uncreative with names, that I just take letters from words on sutff on my desk and change their order. Please make it stop!

 

[jose2534]

I can confirm this bug too. I have the same problem that everyone else here.

 

[fujix]

Confirmed as well.

 

[Foefaller]

Bug is still in with release, uploading save file with a colony ship, you can press random as many times as you want, it still suggests only one name.

EDIT: Did update to 1.2 from the beta patch, if that might mean anything.

 

[anagain]

I can confirm I am seeing this with the full release of 1.2, as well.

It may be all planets except for the first colonised though. I do recall having more options for names when colonising my first planet. I plan to start a new save so I'll update this post if I see anything different.

 

[icckys4u]

What, you mean you guys don't like having all of your planets named "New Jerusalem"? Seriously though it is an extremely annoying bug. I just name my planets after the colony ship. Although it is weird when I colonize an Arctic world and the ship is named "Jamaica".

 

[Shaboba]

Same here, with the full Asimov release. Glad to know it's not just my custom namelist freaking out

 

[Texas_Jack]

Yay, I'm not alone! Was looking forward to starting a new Stellaris series on my channel with 1.2, but I guess I'll wait until this is fixed.

 

[jose2534]

This bug is still present.

Spoiler: Jack

Just do it even without the random name working, do your series and have fun (even with the little bugs )

 

[drstadler]

I have also encountered this bug.

I am running the shipped 1.2 (2352).

(Also, defaulting to "%System% Prime" is kind of unhelpful too, even before clicking the die gets the same name every time).

 

[icckys4u]

I have also encountered this bug.

I am running the shipped 1.2 (2352).

(Also, defaulting to "%System% Prime" is kind of unhelpful too, even before clicking the die gets the same name every time).

The whole system prime thing was in response to some people whining that the random colony names made it hard to find the planet because the system name shows on the galaxy view. Even though it shows the system name in the outliner next to the planet, and any colony event that pops up has a go to button at the top of the pop-up as well. They whinned enough and they won. I admit that when you are using some of the default name lists (reptiles and bugs especially) some of the names seem like they are just random strings of letters. I personally always use the human name list 1 because it used to give you colony's named after countries that matched the biome of the planet. There have been multiple reports of this bug and i'm kind of shocked that it got out of beta. I mean come on, are you telling me that not one DEV noticed this before, during, and after the 1.2 Beta went live? This is my first PDOX title I bought at launch and now I see why some people gripe as much as they do. I love all my PDOX games and I don't regret buying them for one minute but sometimes I even wonder if they look at these bug reporting forums. I know that they will eventually fix it, its just dumb that its still around after the beta.

 

[gerishnakov]

This bug is still there in the 1.2.1 hotfix. No change from the problem present in 1.2.

 

[Foefaller]

This bug is still there in the 1.2.1 hotfix. No change from the problem present in 1.2.

I've seen it work, though it sometimes suggests the same exact same name 3-4 times in a row.

 

[Secataur]

I've seen it sort of work in 1.2.1 (20fe). It seemed kind of sluggish, somehow. Like it didn't want to change name if I clicked to quickly.

 

[gerishnakov]

Hmm perhaps I'll have to give it another go.

 

[TothAval]

I've seen it work, though it sometimes suggests the same exact same name 3-4 times in a row.

I've seen it too. Could it be that there is some sort of RNG weight to certain Names on the list?

Anyway, i am happy with the feature, although it's not working perfect atm.

 

[ForzaA]

Thank you for the report. We're aware of the issue.

 

[TheBromgrev]

Bringing this back up. Maybe it's not the same issue, but in 1.3.1, when I click the random button nothing happens. It wasn't noticeable until I reached around 24 planets. Sometimes I can click the button 20 times and nothing happens, other times it takes 5-6 clicks to get a random name.