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What are your star naming conventions?

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What are your star naming conventions?

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Anything beyond 5 plants get had to keep straight with names thought up by others. Fortunaly we can think of our own, here's mine:

Being that my empire is the FIST OF JOHN I name my systems as follows:

Largest Planet size in System 15-19 I rename to Finger Finger1, Finger2, etc..
Largest Planet size in System 14-under I rename to Knuckle Knuckle1, Kuckle2, etc...
Largest Planet size in System 20+ I rename to Fist Right Fist, Left Fist, Cock Fist, etc...

Any systems with generally worthless planets I use for hunting good/evil events or as a tradable resource get demeaning names like "Throw away pet", "Throw away pet Stepchild", or "Babbling drooling Retard".

So what are your Star naming conventions? I'm curious to see what some of you use..

~SDC~
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Reply #51 from Stardock Forums Top
I name my systems after friends of mine - Sol is always renamend after my girlfriend (NO, not CariElf, my REAL girlfriend ;) )

I always choose names that somehow make sense for me: For example, a system at the border to the Drengin Empire is named after a particular choleric friend, or three systems in one sector are named after three guys who share a flat.

Furthermore, I always change the spelling in a way that shows how many colonized planets the system contains, for example:
Jonathan -> 1 planet
Jon-Athan -> 2 planets
Jon-At'han -> 3 planets
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Reply #52 from Stardock Forums Top
I name only my most valuable systems, the systems that I must not give away, trade or lose under any circumstances. This is since I gifted the Alexians a star system and clicked on the wrong name. Goodbye to a system including a 26 point planet, goodbye manufacturing capital, goodbye economic capital, goodbye trade routes etc etc, never again.
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Reply #53 from Stardock Forums Top
Only one thing can force me to rename a system: my wife got bored watching me playing. Then I show her my best system and rename it in some way mocking her ;) It usually gives me an hour or two..
Reply #54 from Stardock Forums Top
Famous Ancients: Constantine, Cicero, Qin, Rameses, Abraham, Vercingtorix, Hamilcar, Mansa Musa, etc.

Famous battle-sites: Gettysburg, Ticonderoga, Agincourt, Wu Zhang, Adrianople, Phillipi, etc.

And I somtimes take the name the computer gives me.
Reply #55 from Stardock Forums Top
I use alcohol as a base rule ;)

High PQ - Shots (Jack Daniels, Southern Comfort, etc.)
Medium PQ - Wine (Chardonnay, Boone's, etc.)
Starbases - Beer (Bud, Coors, Labatts, etc.)