If you don't have the "cosmic" tier, could you still name planets, or if not, still make them (but how would they be identified if they are not names, such as I wanted my friends to play on a planet that I had made, but they never found it)
The only thing planet naming affects is a planet's name. the Name along with everything else is procedurally generated. There has been talk about a system where you could savbe planets and/or systems to share them. Mike
In a "hat" that's filled with names, I assume that the game will pick a name out of the hat and assign it to a planet while the game is loading. Pretty simple really, I imagine it'll be the same way Sins did it.
You should watch the LiveStreams And/Or check out Stickies like the Topic Index and Confirmed Features List. In particular for Procedurally Generating Planets; LiveStream Nov 30th LiveStream Mar 22nd Mike
I understand now; minecraft seeds are basically picked out of a hat, too. I guess the name itself will be a string of numbers and letters.
Oh, no no no. The planets are procedurally generated, like the worlds in Minecraft. The names are not. What I meant is that the metaphorical hat is full of full names, like "Alpha, Mavor, Veta, Mars, Jupiter" and so on. Planets in a system (at least I think Uber is doing this) will be given a random name out of the pool of names. So in a one planet system, with my given pool of names, the game may decide to call it Mavor. In a two planet system, the two planets may be called Mavor and Veta. So on and so forth. This actually makes me wonder, will moons also be given names? In the trailer I think the moon base is called, well, "moon base". I think it would be intuitive to name the moons according to the planet's name and a given number. Like Mavor-1 and Mavor-2.
