Multiplayer Names

[BRITISHGAMER]

May just be me being confused from being tired as hell, but when playing multiplayer, if players select different name lists, will they work?

Name lists seem to contain planet names which i can imagine being incompatible with MP games.

Anyone have any idea how it would work then?

 

[Damiani]

Planet's names will only change after they are colonized IIRC. Otherwise they will be named after the system (i.e Sol III) and the system names are the same for everyone.

 

[ahhheygao]

...when playing multiplayer, if players select different name lists, will they work?

Name lists seem to contain planet names which i can imagine being incompatible with MP games.

Compatibility technically isn't the issue, since the planets' ID and actual localized display names are separate entities... perhaps you meant suitability? Star systems can't be renamed if I recall correctly, so it'd just be annoying and confusing as hell for everyone else to see planets in different systems with the same names, but the star system name will always follow planet name in parenthesis or mouseover.

Then again, players may also opt to manually rename their planets to cause confusion... heck, it might even be possible to have multiple planets in a system with the same name. The players themselves may be able to tell them apart the planets based on their biome/tiles/Pops, but that info might not be available elsewhere, e.g. War Goal selection.

 

[Legerdemain]

"Hi can I use my custom namelist for my species?"
"Sure"
"OK cool" *sends "stellaris_custom_1.txt"*
"... why is this file so small?"
"I'm RPing a really unimaginative species"
"Huh." *opens name list* "So you've decided to just name everything in your entire empire 'Steve'?"
"Yeah"
"OK, fair enough."

 

[Amightypie]

either it will be host's choice for ease of use for players or each player will use their own name list for different systems, more likely the former otherwise it will get confusing fast