Refit & rename
 

If a ship hasn't been renamed yet (you know, like those super-roleplayers do, naming every ship individually), do you think the game should automatically rename it to the new class name when it is refit?

Re: Refit & rename
 

you mean people do not name each ship individually?

Re: Refit & rename
 

I do name all my ships individually and what I'd like to see is a drop-down list in response to clicking on the NAME button. This drop-down list would display the contents of a text file shipnames.txt.

Re: Refit & rename
 

I typically only rename ships when I notice that two have gotten the same identifier due to refits, and even then I usually just renumber.

I've occasionally given a ship a name when it's done something noteworthy, or was put into a game fiction piece where it needed a name, but usually I don't bother.

Re: Refit & rename
 

Now how can someone name hundreds of ships individually? It looks like there are people with radically different game styles here. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif If you only have 50 or so ships at a time during a game that's one thing. But the way some people play, with hundreds or even thousands of ships, there's no reasonable way to come up with individually unique names.

Re: Refit & rename
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Man, that's a really cool idea! But why does it sound so familiar?

Re: Refit & rename
 

I've had a couple of games where I have individually named around 500 ships. Fortunately they were all alien names...

Re: Refit & rename
 

In addition to either the automatic renaming or the option to automatic rename is to have the ships listed under the fleet name in the ship/units display (F6) rather than have the ships separately listed and the fleets separately listed.

In other words, if a ship is assigned to a fleet, it would be listed under that fleet name rather than grouped with all the assigned and unassigned ships

It is a real pain to

Re: Refit & rename
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Man, that's a really cool idea! But why does it sound so familiar?</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ahhh ... because it's a good idea; one you've had yourself - as well as have had hundreds of others. Pity it didn't make it to Malfador. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

Re: Refit & rename
 

The way I name my ships is name followed by designator and number, thusly:

Razzia MC-0001

(beneath that is the name applied during the design.) In DESIGN, I select from a design list that lists CLASS NAMES. Thus I would have a TYPE Name associated with a class name.

Hence a design might be:

Hull type: Cruiser
Design class: Missile Cruiser
Class Name: Aegis IV-cm (lvl4 - capitol ship missiles)

The NAME then ends up:

Aegis IV-cm 0001

then it's renamed to:

Razzia MC-0001
Aegis IV-cm &lt;-- this will show automagically in the list at a planet, etc.

My Dsgnname file looks something like this:

===============================
-- [Escort] --
Escort
EC-
===============================
-- [Explorer] --
Nebula
NC-
===============================
-- [Missile Cruiser] --
Aegis
MC-
===============================
...
etc and ad infinitum, ad nauseum.

Works for me. Automatically keeps me in touch with possibly out-running my production since I have to pause whilst churning out ships.

[ August 12, 2002, 23:21: Message edited by: Elowan ]