[Elowan]

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 <-- 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 ]