Percentage of Founder Stars in a normal game

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Unless i am doing it wrong, there seem to be about 2400 founder star names so far. (so much for "we are not expecting to get 1000 founders.")

Of course stardock will be adding star names of their own, my galciv2 star file has about 1500 star names in it. No doubt there will be some overlap but probably not to much.

 

So using these numbers and assuming all the star names are just thrown in one big list, in your average game you should get a little over 60% Player submitted star names.

Of course the number of founders is probably still going to go up but i doubt there will be a huge sales spike, and of courses stardock can add more star names of their own but even if they double the amount from galciv2, were still looking at about 40-50% player submitted star names. 

 

It is also possible stardock will limit the percentage of player stars to a fixed amount, but should they?

 

Personally i think i would like to see mostly "realistic" star names, and while a lot of player names fit that, a lot of them do not. So i would probably say about 25% of player named stars would be a good number to keep the less star sounding names as a flavor thing at about 10-15%. 

 

What do you think a good percentage of player star names would be?

 

 

 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Of course stardock will be adding star names of their own, my galciv2 star file has about 1500 star names in it. No doubt there will be some overlap but probably not to much.

The star name file in GC2 has many replications. After sorting the list and pruning out the duplications I found the file only has about 500 unique names.

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Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

^communist. Let there be no limits to star names!

 

DARCA ;)

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I'm still trying to comprehend many of the names.

  • 127dot0dot0dot1
  • Ghostprogrammer
  • Gizmotechnica
  • Land of the Mole
  • Leduc LXII <-- That's the name of the star. The planets will be called "Leduc LXII III" and "Leduc LXII IV"
  • Tangerine Dream
  • Theblackknight13
  • Yoloswagulus
  • ZnX4BETA
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

They will go through another round of reviews before being entered in the final game.  

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Any running Python 2.7.5 or similar? I made a script that gives you a rundown of your stars. You may need to update the filepath on line 1.

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Lucky, reply 1
The star name file in GC2 has many replications. After sorting the list and pruning out the duplications I found the file only has about 500 unique names.

Any running Python 2.7.5 or similar? I made a script that gives you a rundown of your stars. You may need to update the filepath on line 1.

Reply #7 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I just checked the starname file sent with GC3 and found it much more difficult to check for duplications. I can't just sort the file and get a list of star names.

So I checked the first name in the file and found three iterations of it. My guess is that some automated process had been used to create the list from the list from GC2, seeing as the first few names in both files match in name and order.

 

 

I really hope that when the list is created that contains the Elite Founders' submissions that this will be corrected.

Reply #8 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Another user error, was trying to edit, not quote.

Reply #9 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting jim_viebke, reply 3

I'm still trying to comprehend many of the names.


127dot0dot0dot1
Ghostprogrammer
Gizmotechnica
Land of the Mole
Leduc LXII <-- That's the name of the star. The planets will be called "Leduc LXII III" and "Leduc LXII IV"
Tangerine Dream
Theblackknight13
Yoloswagulus
ZnX4BETA

 

Didn't "Tangerine Dream" do the music for the movie "Risky Business"? 

Reply #10 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Where do I go to see the list of names of star and mine too??

Reply #11 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I found the file StarNamesText.xml in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Galactic Civilizations III\data\English\Text

 

The format spreads them out, but the names are alphabetized so it should be easy to find yours.