News Ship naming and Name Plates – how it will work

[{SAS}Stalker]

You can't even buy dust in the UK for £2 anymore, seems like a bargain!

 

[DaylightM]

thanks for the clarification I am still working out what the outrage was about... nevermind am sure it didnt matter

 

[Guywired]

Hi everyone,

There’s been a number of questions from Commanders regarding ship naming and how ship name plates will work so we wanted to give you a little more information about how these features will work when they’re released.

In-game ship naming

When you have named your ship in-game, your ship name will appear in multicrew grouping and in your HUD. In addition to this, in beta 5, when other people scan you, or target you in space they will be able to see your ship name in their UI. This feature will be available for all players of Elite Dangerous (both base game and Horizons players) including Xbox One, upcoming PS4 release and PC Commanders.

Cosmetic Ship Name Plates

The ship name plates will offer an added layer of cosmetic personalisation for Commanders wanting to wear their name with pride, much like paint jobs and other cosmetics currently available in the store.

Name plates will be made available in themed packs. These packs will contain three designs, each of which will be available in three colours: black, white, and grey. This makes a total of 9 nameplates per pack. After purchase, each pack will be available for use across all of your ships (Ship launched fighters and SRVs don’t have name plates) and each pack of 9 variant plates will be coming into store at just £2/€2.5/$3. This means that purchasing one pack of name plates will allow you to use that style across all of your current and future ships, at the same time and rename each individual ship as many times as you like. We believe this flexibility offers Commanders great value and is a great way to help support the continued development of Elite Dangerous.

Thanks!

Well done!

I approve of this model. It's a cool feature worth me throwing money at while respecting my budget.

Thanks guys!

 

[agentmoo]

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[Dweezil_Moon]

Great news. Thanks for the [aehm]clarification

now .. bring it on.. my credit card is ready ...

 

[Alex Ringess]

Well done!

I approve of this model. It's a cool feature worth me throwing money at while respecting my budget.

Thanks guys!

Good, but you don't think about those who don't have the budget.

 

[wstephenson]

Boy do I have a great idea for you for those name plates!

See, every time you kill NPC it could drop very rare item: ship name letter! Just like they drop now rare materials.

Next we introduce into the game new engineer. This engineer would create name plate by combining the letters you've gathered in random order (number of letters used is also random), creating the random name plate!

If you are dissatisfied with the end result - gather more letters and try again!

Sorry, that one has been patented by Taito:

Spoiler

But I'd like to see a new Engineer called Mavis Beacon who offers in-game typing classes for CMDRs in VR .

Yay! I spent 12 hours in a SRV and all I found was a bunch of Z,X and ж's. Wait until a re-loggable source of vowels are found.

XжZZж is a sacred and storied word in text adventures, a thing of power, you should feel fortunate!

 

[Andreus]

Frontier should give players at least one nameplate and ID plate for free.

 

[Petersaber]

The amount of people in this thread who are happy to be nickel and dimed, milked like cashcows is depressing.

 

[Jazzy]

Thanks for the clarification Ed

 

[Angrymog]

Yeah with Comic Sans, it will blow the store...

Comic Sans is the official Diamond Frog Warfont, so we'd be fine with that.

 

[Alex Ringess]

Frontier should give players at least one nameplate and ID plate for free.

The amount of people in this thread who are happy to be nickel and dimed, milked like cashcows is depressing.

THIS !

 

[Titus Balls]

Good job on clarifying it - Either through confusion, or a change of heart this is the right decision.

Also very reasonable price for the ship name decals.

 

[Kerrash]

Good, but you don't think about those who don't have the budget.

If you can't afford £2 for an optional cosmetic, how on Earth did you afford a machine to play this game on... :S

 

[LexMoloch]

If you don't have £2 for optional cosmetic, you should not buy it...
No trolling or disrespect here - this is a way of supporting the game and devs, but you don't need to throw money away if you can't afford throwing it away.

 

[SaliVader]

If you can't afford £2 for an optional cosmetic, how on Earth did you afford a machine to play this game on... :s

Nice bait, but you're perfectly aware that people complaining here aren't complaining because they can't afford it.

 

[CMDR ColD_ZA]

Thanks Ed, this is a much more amicable implementation. I will definitely be purchasing myself some nameplates now that the system is how it should be!

 

[Alex Ringess]

If you can't afford for an optional cosmetic, how on Earth did you afford a machine to play this game on... :s

This is because I buy pieces by pieces the machine to play this game that I can't afford for a thing that I can't see as an optional cosmetic feature.

Talking about the decals prices.

The power play decals are free and the others are at 1.25€.

So if you want to promote your power play allegiance, you can for free, but you can't show your ship name for free ?

 

[CMDR ColD_ZA]

Good job on clarifying it - Either through confusion, or a change of heart this is the right decision.

Also very reasonable price for the ship name decals.

I would put my money on change of heart... since its only going to be in beta 5

 

[Bortas]

This is because I buy pieces by pieces the machine to play this game that I can't afford for a thing that I can't see as an optional cosmetic feature.

A nameplate is pretty much the paragon of an optional cosmetic feature.