Not sure why this isn’t already a thing. Systems and planets are already like this, so it’s clear that Hello Games has the ability to do this. These are already done this way to (probably) stop people from naming these larger systems into something offensive.

But based on the past few expeditions, it’s become increasingly clear that people won’t use this system to make fun or funny names for things and instead will choose to name commonly found resources or creatures into things that are political or offensive.

I don’t think specific words need to be locked or anything. If I found one of these discoveries in the normal mode then I can just move on. But, expeditions (especially the last one) force you to interact and see the discoveries of other players for much longer periods of time compared to other parts of the game.

Having all discoveries on necessary progression systems (starting places, rendezvous points, etc) be pre-discovered by Hello Games eliminates any need for them to ban any names and still lets people name random systems whatever they want. I’d imagine this would also drastically cut down on reports sent to HG. For the most part everyone wins by doing this. People can still name random systems whatever they want, HG doesn’t have to deal with a bunch of reports, and people can play their space game without political and offensive names being shoved down their throat.

I’ve seen some people post asking if the game is really as big as people say it is. To this I would say that most people probably underestimate the size of the game.

To give an idea I just recently started a new save (my 7th save not including the expeditions) and on all my playthroughs I have never encountered another random player on a planet or in space. Not a single time in the 5ish years I’ve been playing this game.

Another example, just yesterday I flew into a system that was discovered 6 years ago. Whoever discovered the system must have been traveling somewhere because they didn’t scan/discover any of the planets in the system. So 6 years passed with the planets being undiscovered despite the system being discovered until I rolled along. 6 YEARS it took for another player to finally come along and discover the rest of the system.

That is one of the main reasons why I love this game. Exploring and discovering new things is what I find the most fun in and with NMS it’s seemingly infinite.