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I was wondering if there was any interest in having named Octant's!(Or as nearly everyone else calls them Galaxies!) As was mentioned here.

And may I be as bold to make the first suggestion for my favourite Octant the seventh: Septumus

So my favourite planet would be Erbieder in Septumus

This has come up before. They were actually named in some versions of Elite; definitely in the version I played as a kid on the Acorn Archimedes. "Galaxy 1" was known as "Santaari". Hold on a moment while I install the Oolite Bulletin Board search plugin for Firefox...

There we go! Have a look at this...

Suggested chart titles:-

Galactic Chart 1
Galactic Chart Two
Galactic Region Three
Galactic Sector 4
Galactic Area Five-0
Chart Six
Galaxy Seven
Empire of Doom

Mauiby de Fug wrote:

This has come up before. They were actually named in some versions of Elite; definitely in the version I played as a kid on the Acorn Archimedes. "Galaxy 1" was known as "Santaari". Hold on a moment while I install the Oolite Bulletin Board search plugin for Firefox...

There we go! Have a look at this...

You would really have thought I would have learned by now to check a bit more thoroughly before posting...

Thanks Mauiby.

They are named thus on the Oolite galaxies spreadsheet too... but I very much doubt that named galaxies will ever happen in core Oolite, which is sad.

El Viejo wrote:

but I very much doubt that named galaxies will ever happen in core Oolite, which is sad.

The ability to add galaxy names as expansions has already happened. From cim's yesterday's commit log:
new "long-range-chart-title-N" descriptions.plist entries for individually-named galaxies

another_commander wrote:

The ability to add galaxy names as expansions has already happened.

Yeah, I am aware of that. They'd need to be universally used, or it means little/nothing to me.

Haven't they already been named on the galactic maps available on the wiki?

!m!

Is there an OXP which adds named galaxies?

Yes

Fatleaf wrote:

Yes

Why the non-smiley - did I really cause that much offense?