Can we have more text please?

[Buladelu]

Balance, graphics, gameplay - it's all fine.

However there are sides of the games that can be improved with little effort. Like text! Namely all the names for planets and species and starships. They can quickly become familiar. And it's not like it's a great work to add those the way portraits are. Maybe there are some problems with localisation, but it shouldn't be that difficult. Probably less difficult than what they're doing with colors in next update.

So can we please get a couple of new text templates for each phenotype? Pretty please?

 

[Alblaka]

I think a more interesting side would be as to whether you can edit the files containing these kind of data without altering the checksum.
Because if not, changing that would be enough for the community to fill in the rest.

But in the end I personally prefer having the gameplay fixed and improved over getting more fluff.

 

[Milten]

Wiz said they have plans for that. Still generally speaking modders got it covered, there are hundreds of various namelists available. And if you haven't made one for your own empire, you're being lazy.

 

[Buladelu]

Wiz said they have plans for that. Still generally speaking modders got it covered, there are hundreds of various namelists available. And if you haven't made one for your own empire, you're being lazy.

The problem with mods is you have to look for a pack of those namelists or create a pack yourself. There's appeal in this but I'd prefer lore-friendly items added by developers. And mods often contain silly stuff, I don't want added Holy Roman Empire names.

 

[Occursus Morini]

Wiz said they have plans for that. Still generally speaking modders got it covered, there are hundreds of various namelists available. And if you haven't made one for your own empire, you're being lazy.

Or they want achievements ? A name list disables them.

Right now, in my current game, I have received no achievement thus far despite playing fair and square, because I made a custom name list.

 

[Milten]

Or they want achievements ? A name list disables them.

Really? I remember before release that devs promised it won't, but I never play on ironman so didn't check this out. I'll show myself out then.

 

[Occursus Morini]

Really? I remember before release that devs promised it won't, but I never play on ironman so didn't check this out. I'll show myself out then.

I made a thread about it a short while ago, hoping to gather support and keep the thread on the first page until we got an answer, but it seems we were few to actually care, so...

But yeah, they are disabled. They might look into it at some point, I really hope so.

 

[Diezy]

They consistently add more names, Heinlein/Leviathans has expanded Plantoid and Mammalian and some other name lists quite a bit. The list is already ridiculously long, and I tend not run in two the same name in consecutive playthoughs, except the occasional *cough* Plantoid. Mirovandia, Mandasura and Lozvata are in every episode. But that is a bug, as Primitive worlds are so overwhelmingly getting Plantoid names.

Of course, it could just be a weird luck streak, sample isn't that crazy big.

 

[Zaltys]

Really? I remember before release that devs promised it won't, but I never play on ironman so didn't check this out. I'll show myself out then.

Name lists are in \common\name_lists, and any changes to \common alters the checksum. Which disables the achievements.