Galactic Ship Registry Officials facing a grave threat?

Jack Luminous

Jack Luminous
I had a terrible revelation this morning: the hard-working officials at the Central Galactic Ship Registry Office might be losing control over who owns which ship if proper preparations are not made soon!

My ship is registered as 983-AGU. The English alphabet has 26 letters, so according to my admittedly very shoddy mathematical skills, we get a total of 26*26*26 = 17,576 letter combinations. Multiply this by 1000 (numbers 000-999), and we get a total of 17,576,000 different register plates.

Now, as far as I understand, the number of legally registered pilots is still within these limits. But if the speculations on advancements in module technology (planetary landings, deep scanning, dashboard bobbleheads, coffee machines, onboard sanitation), shipbuilding (the rumor has it that several new blueprints are approaching completion at all major shipbuilding companies) and galaxy exploration (several pilots claim UFO sightings, often co-occurring with temporary oxygen shortage) materialise, a long-term boom in ship sales can take place any time soon. My question is, has the leadership at the CGSRO considered this scenario at all? Will we be facing queues of thousands of pilots angrily waiting for a system update that accommodates longer registry plates?
 
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Ulysses_W

Ulysses_W
Jack Luminous said:
I had a terrible revelation this morning: the hard-working officials at the Central Galactic Ship Registry Office might be losing control over who owns which ship if proper preparations are not made soon!

My ship is registered as 983-AGU. The English alphabet has 26 letters, so according to my admittedly very shoddy mathematical skills, we get a total of 26*26*26 = 17,576 letter combinations. Multiply this by 1000 (numbers 000-999), and we get a total of 17,576,000 different register plates.

Now, as far as I understand, the number of legally registered pilots is still within these limits. But if the speculations on advancements in module technology (planetary landings, deep scanning, dashboard bobbleheads, coffee machines, onboard sanitation), shipbuilding (the rumor has it that several new blueprints are approaching completion at all major shipbuilding companies) and galaxy exploration (several pilots claim UFO sightings, often co-occurring with temporary oxygen shortage), a long-term boom in ship sales can take place any time soon. My question is, has the leadership at the CGSRO considered this scenario at all? Will we be facing queues of thousands of pilots angrily waiting for a system update that accommodates longer registry plates?
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Maybe FD will introduce cherished number plates at some stage to counteract this worrying development?

3L33T-1 - a bargain at 300,000 tons of slaves.
 
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Krepose Gavayne

Krepose Gavayne
Your calculations are wrong, caused by a mistaken presumption due to a fluke combination of characters in your reg plate.

Just as 238-ACE could be seen as three decimal digits followed by three alphabetical letters, it could also be in hexadecimal. I do not know the word for the numbering system used for registration, but it is not base 16, it is base 36.

How many ships does that allow for? :)
 

Valethar

Valethar
After doing some research on the issue, I found something that may help with the problem of UFO sightings. This should help cut down on the number of ship registry requests that are mistakenly filed by those explorers experiencing hypoxia while filling out the forms.


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KellyR

KellyR
I don't think that 983-AGU is your ship registry. My Asp shows the same thing right next to Utility Slot 1. I think that might be a model number, not a registry number.
 

Valethar

Valethar
Necromouse is watching you!

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(Please check post dates before replying. Dead threads should be left to rest in peace.)
 

eza

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Valethar said:
(Please check post dates before replying. Dead threads should be left to rest in peace.)
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but why, if they're still useful or contain relevant information?

also it seems at odds with the moderators' policy to merge things into one uber-thread which stays alive for months.
 
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