Overall Strategy and Massive Confusion

[Skulky]

I just took a sneak peak and it looks cool. Still how many functions do you need in something for keepign notes? i guess if your really dedicated you could take down everything.

[Growltigga]

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Originally posted by Praetor:
I always just use the age old expedient of giving my ships regular ship names, e.g., the TCS Victory or the HMS Repulse (depending on what kind of empire we're talking). Same for the classes. Obviously I can see at a glance what components a ship has, but to my opponents "HMS Coral Sea, Gloucester Class" doesn't mean squat. Plus, it just makes your navy seem more organized and professional (not to mention cool )

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Praetor, you join myself and Tampa Gamer as the archetypal military history nuts - I do exactly the same as yourself. I havn't played against humans yet but really dont see how sight of something called "FNS Agamemnon - BC nike class" is really going to help them much. Actually, I do designate my vessels with code if they are specialised eg CLE escort cruiser, CLX heavy weapons cruiser CLA assault cruiser (ie beam heavy) that sort of thing - I may have to stop doing that

[Gryphin]

Hmm, Making a note, wondering if Growltigga is disseminating misinformation for my sake. Disseminating some of my own: While I am still learning I tend to name my designs using the abriviations of the Hull, Speed, and equipment on board. A ship of mine might look like this: FF PDC 6. Frigate with Point Defence Cannons and Speed 6, (not that I would ever build such a usless thing).

[1FSTCAT]

When I see military ship names, and I want to know what they are, I'll search the net. One player I played with, named his ships in French. A simple internet translator was all that was needed to bust this code wide-open. I agree with just naming things out-of-the-blue, for no reason. I use the empire name "The Pootopians", and prefer to name my ships in a similar fashion.

I use "Green Poo", "Brown Poo", "Poo on you", etc. etc. Hell, half the time, I don't even know what they mean.

--Ed

[Skulky]

bringing this badboy back from the graveyard, I love it when people name their ships in (Italian for example) and i just head on over to altavista and figure out what he lays his mines with and what he carries his fighters in, however he has several transports that are "somthing translator can't figure out" carrier and haven't done anything yet, they arn't troops because he has only glassed so far, and this is a non-gold so its not drones. but its fine, i really don't care, im about to kick his booty.

Any more notetaking suggetsions?

[Fyron]

Note-taking? You guys are crazy! j/k

I name all my ships individually, with completely random names.

I've seen one player name ships like this:

Killer VII - is a warship
Killer VIl - minesweeper
Killer VlI - supply ship

All of these names (unfortunately) look identical in the list where the ships in a sector are displayed, so you cannot tell at a glance how many warships and support ships are in a fleet. If you click on a ship, the font used for the design name is different, so you can tell what the actual name is that way, but it is longer and more complicated than simply looking at all the ships in 1 sector at a time.

[Elowan]

Originally posted by Gryphin:
Frigate with Point Defence Cannons and Speed 6, (not that I would ever build such a usless thing).

Why do you say that this is useless?