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New player here. A bit surprised to see this mission "procedurally" generated. Has anyone else seen this?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

Once, I placed a base computer and the game randomly assigned it my own name.

So, I'm not surprised to see something like that come out of the random generator.

Not worth thinking into

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

why is "Israel" even in the vocabulary of the random name generator?

[–] altairabove 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's exactly what I was thinking. I did find a link to an existing star system online: "Israel Hands". Someone "discovered" it in 2018. https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Israel_Hands I'm still figuring out their RNG, so I don't know if this is part of their vocab or part of the curated content.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

from how I understand this Israel Hands has been renamed by players from the name "Gotosu-Ava".

[–] altairabove 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Oh, that's interesting. So perhaps this is pulling text from human-named systems? I guess that's more understandable. Still something they could moderate better.

[–] dual_sport_dork 3 points 5 months ago

Iirc moderation is report driven. You can report named things as inappropriate via your discoveries tab. If no one reported it, I presumbe nobody would have reviewed it.

[–] p5yk0t1km1r4ge 1 points 5 months ago

It's been suspected for a long time now that the proc gen for names somehow pulled things directly from the internet.

[–] alfredalpaca 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] altairabove 6 points 5 months ago

Doesn't it suck that we can't tell what is real? I mean the internet has always been full of BS... but still... I guess since I don't post often, I'm just not used to people (prudently) being skeptical of my reality.

[–] JusticeForPorygon 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ooof they might wanna look at that

[–] altairabove 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean, would they even notice if I sent an email? Seem like it's either a very rare artifact they wouldn't bother fixing, or they did it on purpose (and wouldn't bother fixing).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just send an email. If you are worried about them not fixing it, then not sending an email is the worst action to take.

[–] altairabove 1 points 5 months ago

Excellent point. Email sent.