Naming ships?

SuwinTzi · Feb 3, 2017

Everyone is talking about CtrlV Alien Ruins, or instant multicrew destroying IMMMURSHION, and I'm just wondering what's so hard about allowing us to name our ships.

Game keeps track of your fleet's individual loadouts and dock locations, what is so hard about adding ship names and checking against all other named ships to ensure no one can have the same name, unless one is destroyed/sold?

slothman320 · Feb 3, 2017

SuwinTzi said:
Everyone is talking about CtrlV Alien Ruins, or instant multicrew destroying IMMMURSHION, and I'm just wondering what's so hard about allowing us to name our ships.

Game keeps track of your fleet's individual loadouts and dock locations, what is so hard about adding ship names and checking against all other named ships to ensure no one can have the same name, unless one is destroyed/sold?

What? Why would you want to name the very thing that gives us agency in this game? Btw have you bought the newest paint pack? Only 10$ US!

GilliganTX · Feb 3, 2017

My ships are all named. My decision and agency to name all my ships has no bearing on whether or not Frontier are willing to print them on the hull.

Bryan K · Feb 3, 2017

It's not difficult to do, therefore FDev will take its sweet time delivering it. Doesn't help that so many people want it. We may see it in 3 or so years.

Iskariot · Feb 3, 2017

SuwinTzi said:
Everyone is talking about CtrlV Alien Ruins, or instant multicrew destroying IMMMURSHION, and I'm just wondering what's so hard about allowing us to name our ships.

Game keeps track of your fleet's individual loadouts and dock locations, what is so hard about adding ship names and checking against all other named ships to ensure no one can have the same name, unless one is destroyed/sold?

Fd wants to give us ship naming.
But everything takes time and they are building a huge spacesim, so they have a lot on their plate.
I hope they do not consider ship naming a priority. On my personal list it is number 1.536.378.648.607.985.487.342.857.854.763.287.400

I'm just wondering what's so hard about allowing us to name our ships.

You can name your ship whatever you want. Just write it on a paper and stick that to your screen

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Perhaps it is not that hard to do, but takes just a bit of time to do it and the devs have a few thousand other things to do they feel might be more important.

There might be all kinds of considerations that would make it not as easy to implement as you seem to think.

Shadowdancer · Feb 3, 2017

On a stream some time back, Sandro (IIRC) mentioned that they had a prototype of a ship-naming-related feature kicking around the office, so Maybe Soon But No Guarantees. Sounded positive though.

Garagiste · Feb 3, 2017

It's probably the Roger Mellie filter that's taking the time to sort.

c00ky1970 · Feb 3, 2017

I am gambling my entire family's wealth on the bajillion to one odds given by my bookie that it will appear in 2.3

It's a dead cert!

CAPT. Ho Chi Minge · Feb 3, 2017

One would imagine the filter for blocking the multitude of filth that you know some cmdr's will spray on their fleet. Take a peek at some of the names from no mans sky or even ark and it'll give you an idea.

The filter would take longer to design than the damn feature lol.

Bryan K · Feb 3, 2017

CAPT. Ho Chi Minge said:
One would imagine the filter for blocking the multitude of filth that you know some cmdr's will spray on their fleet. Take a peek at some of the names from no mans sky or even ark and it'll give you an idea.

The filter would take longer to design than the damn feature lol.

Seems simple enough. Profanity filter plus two non-letter, non-number symbol limit. Plus make it possible to report commanders based on offensive ship names.

CAPT. Ho Chi Minge · Feb 3, 2017

Bryan K said:
Seems simple enough. Profanity filter plus two non-letter, non-number symbol limit. Plus make it possible to report commanders based on offensive ship names.

It was more a joke (have you seen my name

)

But this is the internet and expected , though reporting seems a bit extreme (or in the least a time waste for support team).

Shadowdancer · Feb 3, 2017

CAPT. Ho Chi Minge said:
It was more a joke (have you seen my name )

My first thought was that it'd be better with "Mange", but then I've had a draining week.

Bryan K · Feb 3, 2017

CAPT. Ho Chi Minge said:
It was more a joke (have you seen my name )

But this is the internet and expected , though reporting seems a bit extreme (or in the least a time waste for support team).

Shadowdancer said:
My first thought was that it'd be better with "Mange", but then I've had a draining week.

I don't get it. Must not translate in the US.

Shadowdancer · Feb 3, 2017

Bryan K said:
I don't get it. Must not translate in the US.

Mange is dog scabies.

deckroid · Feb 3, 2017

I still want to buy an Anaconda, paint it purple and call it the "Giant Purple *marital aide from Saints Row 3* of Rectitude".

Edited ** changed name of THING so I wouldn't get reported.

Edited ** yes, this is satire.

Bryan K · Feb 3, 2017

Shadowdancer said:
Mange is dog scabies.

Ah. Point taken.

Mendaharin Tusca · Feb 3, 2017

The ability to name ships ingame has been requested since the game came out.. doubt it will ever be implemented.

Hell Razor5543 · Feb 3, 2017

Another ship naming thread? This was the last one;

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/325980-Name-ships

Bryan K · Feb 3, 2017

Hell Razor5543 said:
Another ship naming thread? This was the last one;

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/325980-Name-ships

The goal is to annoy them until they give us what we want. It worked well for 2.2.

SuwinTzi · Feb 3, 2017

@Bryan K This guy gets it

Unless they're saving it for when the community gets more upset, then release it in a random update, so that everyone goes, "FDEV BEST." "DEV TEAM LISTENS, DEV TEAM CARES."