Randomize the Star Name List?

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I've played countless games in smaller galaxies, and I keep seeing the same star names over and over.

Is it just me, or does the game pull the names of stars from the STARS.LST file in a linear fashion? I NEVER see anything farther down the list.

- Nobody
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
The game doesn't recognize that there is anything after a certain point, but other than that the names used are random. I'm not sure if it's an absolute reference in the code, or if it has something to do with the '<<<<<<<<
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
bah. Stupid HTML parsing.

That should read (with the '{' replacing the angle brackets that got clipped above) " '{{{{{{{{stars.lst' line near the middle of the list. Incidentally, and this may be the cause of the occurance itself, after examining the file again I noticed that most of the names above that line are repeated below it."

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Ugh...that's a merge error. I'll look into that.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Would be fun if you could insert your own star-names/ ship names in a text file or something.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
You can...

There's a text file called STARS.LST with all the star names. Unfortunatly, a soon-to-be-toasted bug prevents all the names from being used.

- Nobody