Refit & rename

[Ed Kolis]

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?

[Growltigga]

you mean people do not name each ship individually?

[Elowan]

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.

[capnq]

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.

[Baron Munchausen]

Now how can someone name hundreds of ships individually? It looks like there are people with radically different game styles here. 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.

[dumbluck]

Originally posted by Elowan:
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.

Man, that's a really cool idea! But why does it sound so familiar?