Aelfric
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ORIGINAL: Shark7 Well for our non-American friends out there, the US designations could be confusing. The United Kingdom, for example, tends to classify ships by function rather than by size as seen in the US system. This is why the UK Type 22 Broadsword class frigates (FF = ASW platform) is actually larger than the Type 42 Batch 1 Sheffield class destroyers (DD = anti-air warfare). What I would suggest doing, which is what I did with MOO, is to put the role in the name by naming your designs FF Protector, or DD Shepard or CA Fluffy Destroyer of Worlds etc. This way, you have the designation that means something to you, but it won't confuse anyone by changing the designations in game. That's what I originally tried to implement, although I made a slight adjustment to it. The first design of my escorts was called EP-1 Saber, which referred to escort-size (I treat 'roles' in description as 'classes' in practice), first version, codename Saber. When I upgraded it, it became EP-2 Saber. I also had FP (frigate, patrol), FT (frigate, torpedo, for assault role), and DD (destroyer, all-rounder). The problem was, when I retrofitted my ships, say EP-1 Saber ships to EP-2 Saber, they did not change their names so I had problems differentiating which ships had been retrofitted and which had not. I ended up manually changing their names one by one, which was a pain to do. I think regardless of the naming convention, this issue will persist so I'll add this to the Master Wishlist.
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