Add in a dice button to cycle through the planet names list when a colony is founded.

[adlerchen]

Title says it all.

 

[Krall]

This is already in the game:

 

[adlerchen]

This is already in the game:

Well, now I feel dumb. When was this added? I took a small break from Stellaris when HOI4 came out, and since I was thinking of playing more Stellaris again, I remembered that I had this complaint/idea from before HOI4 came out since I was thinking about the game again.

 

[Krall]

Well, now I feel dumb. When was this added? I took a small break from Stellaris when HOI4 came out, and since I was thinking of playing more Stellaris again I remembered that I had this complaint/idea from before HOI4 came out.

I forget which update it was, but they added that window with the text field so you could type in a custom colony name right after telling a colony ship to colonise a planet, and that button's been included on that window since it was added. Much better than the old system where - if I remember rightly - they just chose a random planet name without consulting you after they actually landed on the planet.

 

[Pavane]

The problem I have with the random name is that there is no check to see if the name is unique within your empire, and there are not enough of them. When you own 100+ planets there will be lots of duplicates. I remember seeing one name of five different planets. I started renaming the duplicates, but eventually gave up because it was too much work. I don't use the random planet names any more.

 

[WhiteWeasel]

Huh, don't think I have seen this before. When I colonize planets, it just goes [planet name] prime, and secondus, tetrius, quadunus, etc... For every subsiquent inhabited planet in the same star system.

 

[Krall]

Huh, don't think I have seen this before. When I colonize planets, it just goes [planet name] prime, and secondus, tetrius, quadunus, etc... For every subsiquent inhabited planet in the same star system.

That's the name it defaults to, but you can just click the dice button to randomly select one from your name list.

 

[GC13]

That's the name it defaults to, but you can just click the dice button to randomly select one from your name list.

I don't know why they didn't make it so the randomized name is the default and the standardized name is the button you press. I know I don't care enough about my world names to press a button, and I suspect that their data collection would probably show pressing a button to standardize the name to be even less popular than pressing a button to randomize it is.