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[Kiloman]

Seems like there's a limit on the number of characters on a station name; once you get into the station dialog the whole word is 'Exchange'

[Kiloman]

Also I'm pretty sure this is obvious, but the medium and large maps from Exerelin way exceed the size of the system map grid:

[xenoargh]

It'd be really nice if we could re-define the scales for that stuff, or zoom out further.

[Andy H.K.]

Seems like there's a limit on the number of characters on a station name; once you get into the station dialog the whole word is 'Exchange'

This was one big nuisance when I was translating those Chinese mods.....

[Alex]

Thanks for the report(s); these are all known limitations. While it might be nice to adjust things so that they aren't, as long as the limitations remain (and some kind of limitations always will), it's really up to the mods to not break the game.

[Kiloman]

Yeah they're definitely cramming a lot of info into the station name. I can see what they're trying to do but a lot of that info probably belongs in some sort of custom tooltip UI once that becomes possible.

As for the map grid - no possibility of extending/tiling it out as necessary, instead of having what appears to be a fixed-size grid image centered on the system's sun?

Sorry, I know this is turning into suggestions...

[Histidine]

Commenting on the specific case reported here as occurring in Exerelin: Let me say that only Nazis waste the space required to append the star name to the front of the planet name.

[Zaphide]

Commenting on the specific case reported here as occurring in Exerelin: Let me say that only Nazis waste the space required to append the star name to the front of the planet name.

Not sure if joking...

The system name is prepended to the planet name so that when fleets say 'Attacking <planet name><station name>' it says 'Attacking <system name> <planet name> <station name>' instead. I hardly think that qualifies as Nazi-ish material... or as a waste of space.

[Histidine]

Ah, sorry, I hadn't realized it fulfilled that function 

Still strikes me as inefficient to expand the planet/station names in at least three other places just for that, but I suppose if you could change just the fleet tooltip you would have.