SystemNames.txt

Look up the mods for SE4, they had TONS of systemname addons

Here ya go thousands and thousands of system names.

http://www.secenter.org/SystemNames.zip

I took that from my SEIV mod Invasion! which might be from FQM Deluxe.

Settings.txt file this:

Maximum Number Of Systems: Number of Systems the galaxy can contain. The maximum value for this setting is 255.

Which makes sense as it would be a hard coded variable causing the limitation, no? Anyways, you won't wan't to set the systems over that otherwise things may go poof.

I replaced the system names file with the one i got here, but now i cant generate a new map without getting an 'unable to load systemnames file' error?!?!?!?! and i repleced the old one, so it no longer exists.

This is gonna end with me having to re-download the whole thing from steam isnt it?

god i hate steam

Not sure why it would do that. Anyway, here's the default systemnames file. Just copy/paste the following list into a blank text file, name it that, and put it into your Data directory. Make sure the first name is at the very top of the file- no white space!

Aldan
Arklite
Ashadra
Atull
Bardron
Baksha
Bizzet
Butukret
Cephedri
Cuyrok
Cewandi
Cretirk
Devonshire
Dertran
Dussullet
Dornot
Ephandra
Eurul
Equandul
Eskirk
Fortunil
Fwandrei
Fezzran
Forlon
Galgamis
Gretok
Gergan
Ghedran
Hollifax
Haphik
Huju
Hwansul
Ikrod
Ishantrissti
Iolo
Ibsunk
Jubrup
Jethanis
Jokala
Jinook
Koltan
Knoglam
Kartogia
Kinkarka
Lenoltris
Lezzari
Lapzooli
Lundra
Mentocka
Marjoram
Mveloem
Munjumb
Narcisston
Neckron
Nizzarum
Nooloom
Olontra
Organtrix
Osshod
Obotron
Prenix
Pantrissa
Premius
Pawtril
Quikil
Quesstris
Qornor
Qikiltrin
Resshrak
Rizzil
Remnorak
Regotha
Sephandris
Sillinta
Sophenis
Sutran
Texrek
Tudran
Tesshana
Tyrik
Ushphada
Ultrinox
Utekra
Uzara
Vendrin
Vartoxia
Vintindrin
Velocitas
Welshrok
Wertreken
Wanduk
Wurtuy
Xillantha
Xiria
Xanthar
Xiban
Yukra
Yoshri
Yullado
Yabdul
Zezzis
Zekrat
Zanthris
Zitrod

First rule of hacking/modding a game.

RULE ONE :
Thou Shalt Back Up Everything Thou Hacketh

For SE, at least, always do all modding in mod folders -- copy and paste the relevent folders into the mod folder.

There are 10 types of people in the world:

Those that understand binary, and those that don't.

True enough, it just seemed like such a simple operation.

fixed now thanks to phoenix.

i wonder if the new names file here had too many entries or some such.

Alright the problem is due to SE5 not liking some of the characters se4 was fine with, I will try to get a corrected file up if it doesnt involve to much work.

Edit: I am sorry about the confusion but I didn't think for a second it would not work. Working on finding a better version that will work.

Seems that way big difference betwen a 2k file to parse and a 508k file. Wonder what the limit is with SEV now?

Just out of curiosity was it the accent marks ie ú â?

Are you using Notepad or are you using Wordpad to edit the file? Wordpad is a Rich Text Editor, which in plane English means it will embed control characters in your text that will screw-up any plain text reader (which includes the SE5 engine). From your comments it sounds like you are either using Wordpad with formatting, or you've got some weird special characters your trying to use.

I've already hacked my star names, replacing them with common star names. Works fine. And as Baoghal already mentioned, always make a backup first!

Sincerely,
Kahn

Alright after some work it seems se5 has a limit in the systemnames.txt of 16369 lines lol. I have used the wonders of Microsoft Excel to strip away all the characters that may be causing problems.

You can download this file and choose the 16369 names you want lol. I dont have time to go through and decide which ones should die and which should live, so I leave it up to you.
http://www.secenter.org/SystemNames.zip

Edit: oh and I never figured out if there was a problem with the characters for sure but I felt in the interest of time and me not wanting to go through each name with a umlaut or accent mark to figure out what was fine and what wasn't I just got rid of them all.

Thanks for claiming credit on the testing.

It is not a character issue, it is a line number issue. A 108 line file with pretty much all the accent marks worked fine.

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Oh yeah Fyron helped some too

Anyone tried the original with the 1.08 patch just curious at work so can't test it.

The file that is up now without the characters should work just fine, all fifty thousand something lines of it, lots and lots of system names.

Doesn't someone have a random system name generator yet? Shouldn't be hard to come up with one that creates a new SystemNames.txt of whatever length.