It's being looked into. At the moment it seems that universe.ini contains references to a string table in nameresources.dll which holds names for systems, planets, and bases. The tag strid_name appears to be the tag which holds the objects name, but the problem is that they don't correlate with those in the table. For instance New York in the INI is reffered to as 196609, but in the string table, it's #1. The info for the system (ids_info tag) is also crazy like that...

you have to add names to the namesresource.dll and link them to your ini file..
for instance "New York" is ids number 196609 which equals the first name in the dll in the dll there are a lot unused numbers (like 202) so if you put your name there it will be ids_name (196609 +201) = 196810... And then you're system ahs a name..

Oh, and at the moment, it seems that the only way you could change an object's name is by modifying the DLLs (which isn't that hard, just open it up in VS.Net), so that would be a real deterrent for modders, unless they can make an install program which appends the numbers in, then adds the INI files with that number... bleh. =/

Oh, dude. I don't see why I didn't think of that before! D'oh!

There is a meta thread on discussion system creation and such:

http://www.lancersreactor.com/t/forum/t ... er&M=False

or if you don't like that URL:

http://tinyurl.com/7845