Do you rename systems to match colony names?

[Zealuu]

Yes or no?

If no: Why are you such a monster?

 

[BlackUmbrellas]

...why would the star match a colony's name? We don't orbit Earth, after all.

 

[monsterfurby]

Maybe I'm too much of a roleplayer, but I generally name colonies based on the colonists ("Sacred Flame", "Sanctuary", "Utopia", "Paradise", "New Sparta") that settle there, while systems are named based on an empire-wide naming convention ("Dixon's Folly", "Meade Rush" / "Odin", "Wotan", ... )

Only homeworlds I occasionally name "xyz Prime" based on the species name and occasionally rename the system accordingly if it isn't anyway.

 

[BlackUmbrellas]

Maybe I'm too much of a roleplayer, but I generally name colonies based on the colonists ("Sacred Flame", "Sanctuary", "Utopia", "Paradise", "New Sparta") that settle there, while systems are named based on an empire-wide naming convention ("Dixon's Folly", "Meade Rush" / "Odin", "Wotan", ... )

Only homeworlds I occasionally name "xyz Prime" based on the species name and occasionally rename the system accordingly if it isn't anyway.

Yeah, same. I also don't mind leaving star names alone and just giving my colonies names; I don't have an extensive enough list of appropriate star names for most of my civilizations that'd be able to cover more than a few systems.

 

[Scourgeclaw]

I'm one of those people that will go through and rename every system under my control to match a RP naming scheme because I'm basically psychotic- even when I control roughly 55% of a Large galaxy

in-short: yes

 

[MGoods]

I used to, then I got bored of regular namelist names and started a adjective-noun naming scheme depending on my mood/recent happenings/planetary features (eg, a planet won in a war might be renamed glorious victory, a size 20+ natural beauty gaia world that I saw and beelined to colonize might be precious eden, etc) and renaming the systems just became too much hassle. It'd be great if there was either an option to auto rename systems after planets, or an option to put system names in brackets after planet names in events/basically wherever they show up, or just a button that's part of planet naming/renaming to rename the system at the same time.

 

[The Shacks]

Sometimes, oh yes, painfully, worryingly OCD so. Made a full naming convention for the Tzynn to demarcate species homeworlds, labour camps, slave-worlds, brood-lord worlds..... same goes for corresponding system names xD

 

[th3freakie]

Depends on the government type. For example, with Monarchies, I'll always associate a newly colonized system to the Monarch ruling at the time. Then I'll build a monument there.

 

[Dementor4]

I generally play as materialists of some nature, and I tend to disregard charming personable names in favor of strictly functional ones. "Oreworld VII" or "Slavestar Alpha" or "Biohive 3". Generally named after the specialty of the planet in question. It fits the cold impersonal nature of a materialist government, and at the same time is very handy when you're looking for the world you're using to breed your super-slaves because you need to populate a new Oreworld you just won.

 

[Robotkiller]

I don't rename planets; it makes things easier to find. Unless the planet name was something like Epsilon Eridani I, then I rename it to Epsilon Eridani Prime. I'm still not satisfied with keeping the names of some moons, like Epsilon Eridani Ia. I also wish there were more habitable moons because most that I find get named ...[#]a and not ...[#]b or ...[#]c.

 

[Mitchz95]

Yeah, I usually name stars after the colonies so I can find them easily in the galaxy view. Homeworlds are the usual exception.