Design Names

dogscoff · #1 July 8th, 2003, 09:43 AM

Nope, not at all. However, if you're planning to use the file with an AI yoou'll probably need a good few hundred entries, becasue the AI dos gobble them up. Human players tend to be (usually) more economical with their names.

Fyron · #2 July 8th, 2003, 09:52 AM

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Human players tend to be (usually) more economical with their names.

You'd think that.

Andr�s · #3 July 8th, 2003, 10:43 PM

AI will run out of names in a long game and start naming ships 'design 4002' if the list is not long enough.

Rojero · #4 July 8th, 2003, 10:58 PM

So what do you think? 100? 1000?

Fyron · #5 July 8th, 2003, 11:06 PM

100 is certainly not enough. 1000 is probably more than the AI will need.

Taera · #6 July 9th, 2003, 07:55 AM

it depends on the length of the game... an AI with several types of attack ships, WPs, fighters and sats (etc) might need well over that.

trooper · #7 July 10th, 2003, 01:52 AM

It depends on the player. I generaly use the same name for a determinated ship function (mine sweeper, carrier, mine layer, pop transport, warp point creator...) and add roman figures for the Version. So I use about 30 names during a whole game.