Refit & rename

[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 ]

[DavidG]

I think renaming a ship should definatly not be automatic since many people seem to name their ships. Having said that I would like to have the option turned on. The proplem with naming ships is that in some areas of the game only the name and not the class is shown which makes things confusing. (especially if you ungrade a fighting ships to say a supply or minesweeping ship) I think it would be fun to give ships names if the game kept stats for individual ships instead on just the class.