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Ship Names - 5/30/2014 8:34:52 PM

tilarium

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So I'm not a fan of all of my ships of one type being named the same with 001, 002, 003 etc as the only difference. I love that the exploration ships, construction ships and civilian ships all get named. Is there a way to get it so that my military ships come out with names as well? I know I can name them myself, but that gets very tireseome very fast.

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RE: Ship Names - 5/30/2014 9:38:51 PM

Cauldyth

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Cruisers, capital and carrier ships get unique names. Not sure if there's a way to extend that to destroyers and frigates.

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RE: Ship Names - 5/30/2014 9:48:57 PM

Darkspire

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quote:

ORIGINAL: tilarium

So I'm not a fan of all of my ships of one type being named the same with 001, 002, 003 etc as the only difference. I love that the exploration ships, construction ships and civilian ships all get named. Is there a way to get it so that my military ships come out with names as well? I know I can name them myself, but that gets very tireseome very fast.

Copy the file shipNames.txt into your theme, in that you can specify all the names you want for the different classes. The lists are ordered and not random though.

For example, to ease the noggin overload, you could name the constructors;

ConstructionShip: Constructor 01, Constructor 02, Constructor 03, Constructor 04 etc

That way when each construction ship is ordered to be built it will have sequential numbers, first one is named automagicly Constructor 01, second one Constructor 02 etc

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RE: Ship Names - 5/31/2014 6:57:27 AM

chrisol

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This might help:

Ship name mod

I haven't tried it but I think you can download either British Navy or IJN names for the ships...

bw
Chris

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