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Old July 29th, 2006, 04:27 PM
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It could possibly be an issue with how the fleet names are generated. SEIV tries to create a name that is not already in use, and goes through part of the Greek alphabet to enumerate... I don't recall the exact progression, and am not near my SEIV computer at the moment, but it goes something like Alpha, Beta, Delta, Epsilon, Gamma, Kappa (alphabetical for us, but out-of-order for Greek ). Then it does Alpha Alpha, Alpha Beta, etc. I haven't seen it go beyond two greek letters, but have seen two greek letters with two spaces between instead of one. Could be that if you use default names, you run into problems when it tries to generate the next default with three letters, but only two end up being generated, and you have a duplicate. Crash (and burn).
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Old July 29th, 2006, 04:54 PM

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I'll try to find last name of fleet grouping that I had before freezing
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Old July 29th, 2006, 06:57 PM
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Could it be the total number of Fleets, Sat's and Unit groups? Maybe they all occupy array space and the combination of them all has a limit?
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i had an issue with fleets in one game, i using the default names, they do run out, its been awile but ithink the number of fleets i had remaned unchanged or highr just started naming fleets (some fleets did have unique names before hang up).
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I didn't rename in my test, and ended up with sillyness like:

Alpha Alpha Beta Fleet

Alpha (four spaces) Fleet
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I often rename my fleets anyway, so that the names have some sort of meaning to me (or not). That takes care of the 'alpha alpha' sort of nonsense. I dispose of fleets that have outlived their purpose, and have never had this sort of issue.
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