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August 12th, 2002, 06:39 PM
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Re: Refit & rename
you mean people do not name each ship individually?
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August 12th, 2002, 07:08 PM
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Re: Refit & rename
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.
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August 12th, 2002, 10:12 PM
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Re: Refit & rename
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.
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August 12th, 2002, 10:42 PM
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Re: Refit & rename
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.
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August 12th, 2002, 10:53 PM
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Re: Refit & rename
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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.
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Man, that's a really cool idea! But why does it sound so familiar?
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August 12th, 2002, 11:09 PM
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Re: Refit & rename
I've had a couple of games where I have individually named around 500 ships. Fortunately they were all alien names...
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August 12th, 2002, 11:37 PM
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Re: Refit & rename
In addition to either the automatic renaming or the option to automatic rename is to have the ships listed under the fleet name in the ship/units display (F6) rather than have the ships separately listed and the fleets separately listed.
In other words, if a ship is assigned to a fleet, it would be listed under that fleet name rather than grouped with all the assigned and unassigned ships
It is a real pain to
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