Engineers using wrong ship ident's?

Stealthie

Stealthie
Anybody else noticed this?

Doesn't seem to happen all the time, or in all ships, but sometimes the ATC at an engineer's base will refer to your ship by it's original Ident' rather than one you might've given it.

Just been cruising around in my Anaconda (Ident UV-45L), ferrying weapons to engineers to get them modded, and several of the ATC's use the Ident "Sierra India 2", which would (I assume) have been the Ident the ship had when I bought it.

Doesn't seem to happen at normal stations, just engineers.
I also transferred a couple of small (cheap) ships to a nearby station and tried landing those at the nearby engineer base and the ATC refers to them by the correct Ident.
Course, as I said, the engineer ATC's don't seem to make this mistake all the time so that might not mean much.

Also, having just reinstalled the game on a new HDD, I'm wondering if, perhaps, I have to re-apply names/ident's before the game recognises them, or something?
Surely not?
 

SpocksOddSocks

SpocksOddSocks
Flight controllers still use the first three digits of my commander name like they did when back in 2.1. Was this meant to have changed? It happens with both my accounts.
 

Stealthie

Stealthie
Heater said:
There is a setting in the configuration where you can change, what they use.
Click to expand...

I was wondering if it was something to do with that - maybe you need to "do something" before the game notices that the Ship Id isn't what it originally was?

Thing is, I guess, this might have been happening before I reinstalled the game too, but I just didn't notice.

I was also wondering if, perhaps, a Ship ID can be censored and then the ATC's use the original ID instead of the current one.
That wouldn't explain why engineers are making this mistake but not normal stations.

INARA is displaying my ship ID correctly so that (IIRC) tells me it hasn't been censored.
I do have an AspX with a censored ID but it's out in the Pleiades and I'm not transferring it just to test this further. :eek:

Weird though.
 

Lightspeed

Lightspeed
A while back, perhaps a little before 2.4, I noticed Engineers were mistaking a number '4' for an 'A- alpha.' Which I thought was interesting at the time, indicating a 'readout' technique of the ship name. I didn't bug report it and it cleared up in 2.4.

Engineers are different from conventional traffic control. We used to have the bug where they wouldn't welcome you to their airspace at all.
 
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