Emperor L
[ Posts : 1237 ]
 | [Post Date: 05-Jul-2008 00:50]
This is just an idea I had from making the galaxy editor.
For a planets and stars name, could the coordinates be used? Because this would make finding a given planet much easier, because right now they seem just randomly scattered.
Also, instead of 2 numbers (these are easy to get mixed up when trying to remember and also need a comma to make sense), could maybe X coodinates be lettered and Y coordinates be numbered? Then planet orbit can be greek letter (Alpha, Beta etc)
So for lettering it would start at A-Z then AA, AB, and so on through to ZZ and then AAA-ZZZ and so on...
So a star may be AA87 or something like that. Planets around this could be AA87-Alpha etc.
Also these sound more like planet names 
Also, could the galaxy have a scale along the side, showing coodinates every so often, so you can see roughly wher things are?
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Maverick
[ Posts : 1331 ]
 | [Post Date: 07-Jul-2008 10:18]
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This is just an idea I had from making the galaxy editor.
For a planets and stars name, could the coordinates be used? Because this would make finding a given planet much easier, because right now they seem just randomly scattered.
Also, instead of 2 numbers (these are easy to get mixed up when trying to remember and also need a comma to make sense), could maybe X coodinates be lettered and Y coordinates be numbered? Then planet orbit can be greek letter (Alpha, Beta etc)
So for lettering it would start at A-Z then AA, AB, and so on through to ZZ and then AAA-ZZZ and so on...
So a star may be AA87 or something like that. Planets around this could be AA87-Alpha etc.
Also these sound more like planet names
Also, could the galaxy have a scale along the side, showing coodinates every so often, so you can see roughly wher things are?
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We plan to use a name generator for star names. Coordinates will be shown separately. Planets name will be as you described StarName-Alpha/Betta/etc.
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Emperor L
[ Posts : 1237 ]
| [Post Date: 07-Jul-2008 13:15]
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We plan to use a name generator for star names. Coordinates will be shown separately. Planets name will be as you described StarName-Alpha/Betta/etc.
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So each star will have a 'real' name, that will be great .
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