Add a setting to forbid randomly created AI nations from using the same name lists as a player nation.

[lordvagrant]

It's really annoying to be unable to get an unique name for a planet or a ship class because 3 random AIs have picked the same name list. If I've chosen a name list, it is because I want the immersion of having the names, and I don't want to be thwarted when trying to get a name for my second corvette design.

 

[MordridBlack]

do you realize how difficult this would actually be, especially given how many ai empires you can have in a game and how many name lists there are in comparison?

also you don't need more than 1 corvette designs...the only ship that you might need a second design of are battleships

 

[lordvagrant]

The AI will be allowed to reuse name lists, just to not use MY name list.
And the problem with naming my second corvette happens when I am redesigning my original corvette, and cannot save the design as the name is in use, and cycling through a random name also only turns up names in use.

 

[Mik_C]

I also found very anoying when the random name button gives me already used names so I cannot save the design.

Maybe a solution is that the button avoids giving you repeated names.

 

[exi123]

I have to agree on this, in my first aquatic play an AI empire on the other side of the galaxy used the exact same names as my empire. It was a bit braking to see another one with a "Porterton" as a capital and "League of X Suns" as empire name.

Thats actually the same issue when species share the same portrait... I could really understand that with no DLCs installed, but i have them all...