Planet Name Character Limit

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Been browsing the forums for a while and struggling to find anything along the lines of what I'm looking for. Does anyone know of a mod, or know how I can alter my game so that I can increase or remove the character limit for in game planet names? I like naming my planets and the default limit doesn't give me as much room as I would like.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

not possible to my knowledge as it appears to be a hardcode in the engine.

harpo

 

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Planets can have longer names in theory, but you the player cannot get around the renaming limit in game. The only two ways around it is to either make a galaxy forge map and set the planet names through that, or edit the English.string file to change the list of names planets are randomly assigned.

 

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting GoaFan77, reply 2
... or edit the English.string file to change the list of names planets are randomly assigned.
End of GoaFan77's quote

I'm not so sure about the latter Goa, there appears to be a 24 character limit for planet names that are defined in the string file, so I think harpo may be correct. I recently spotted this when testing the B5 planet names for the Sins of the Younger Races mod - the 'y' of 'MacArthur Midrange Colony' gets clipped off (using Dip 1.37).

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

 

Quoting GoaFan77, reply 2
Planets can have longer names in theory, but you the player cannot get around the renaming limit in game. The only two ways around it is to either make a galaxy forge map and set the planet names through that, or edit the English.string file to change the list of names planets are randomly assigned.

 
End of GoaFan77's quote

 

 Galaxy Forge truncates strings that are too long when you try to save them.  I'm not sure what the hard limit is, though.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting NewHorizons, reply 3

Quoting GoaFan77, reply 2... or edit the English.string file to change the list of names planets are randomly assigned.

I'm not so sure about the latter Goa, there appears to be a 24 character limit for planet names that are defined in the string file, so I think harpo may be correct. I recently spotted this when testing the B5 planet names for the Sins of the Younger Races mod - the 'y' of 'MacArthur Midrange Colony' gets clipped off (using Dip 1.37).
End of NewHorizons's quote

Hmm, I actually hadn't tried it with planets, but with capitalship names you can have names longer than you can put in game (some of the default TEC names are actually well over the limit). Actually I think 24 might be more than you can manually type as well.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting GoaFan77, reply 6
Actually I think 24 might be more than you can manually type as well.
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Confirmed, max length you can enter 'in-game' appears to be 13 characters.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Thanks for the replies. Looks like I won't be able to create my Mass Effect/Starwars hyrid universe as well as I thought haha.

 

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