Suggestion: Nameplates for SRVs
- Thread starter Loophole
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Hello, Loophole. 
Well, this is ironic. I spent years lobbying for ship-names*, but here I feel a need to disagree.
If it's a "proper" build, something that a Commander's made the effort to carefully put together, then a proper name makes sense. That's about ownership, that's about the completion and closure of an effort, that's about - for want of a better word - parenthood.
On the other hand, if it's just another identical, utterly disposable SRV or SLF - something churned out like so many photocopies, exactly the same as everyone else's - then a name seems entirely redundant, something of a waste of resources.
An SRV has no individual identity at all. Who cares what it's called?
At best, an automated identifier - say, the parent ship's name or serial number, with an appended few digits or letters - would seem appropriate enough. In my view, a nice paint-job's as much as they're worth, really.
If we ever get SRV construction that works in similar fashion to how ships are built, then I will change my position, accordingly.
*(Want to know the definition of sod's law? It's me spending over two damn years pushing for ship-names, only to see my laptop's graphics card completely pack up in the middle of the beta. I swear, that was so funny, I could have punched a husky. Raaah!)
Well, this is ironic. I spent years lobbying for ship-names*, but here I feel a need to disagree.
If it's a "proper" build, something that a Commander's made the effort to carefully put together, then a proper name makes sense. That's about ownership, that's about the completion and closure of an effort, that's about - for want of a better word - parenthood.
On the other hand, if it's just another identical, utterly disposable SRV or SLF - something churned out like so many photocopies, exactly the same as everyone else's - then a name seems entirely redundant, something of a waste of resources.
An SRV has no individual identity at all. Who cares what it's called?
At best, an automated identifier - say, the parent ship's name or serial number, with an appended few digits or letters - would seem appropriate enough. In my view, a nice paint-job's as much as they're worth, really.
If we ever get SRV construction that works in similar fashion to how ships are built, then I will change my position, accordingly.
*(Want to know the definition of sod's law? It's me spending over two damn years pushing for ship-names, only to see my laptop's graphics card completely pack up in the middle of the beta. I swear, that was so funny, I could have punched a husky. Raaah!)
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DocLooshkin,
I agree with you - particularly for fighters, which seem to be 3D-printed on the spot in the hangar bay on an as-needed basis?
I didn't particularly want to name my SRVs, its actually the ship serial number I'd want to replicate to it, as that's what I use to label my ships with the group's tag - so your idea of adding an automated serial number to that would work just fine!
However, SRVs do seem to be individually purchased, and tend to live longer than fighters, so getting attached to one and giving it a name isn't too much of a stretch of the imagination.
I agree with you - particularly for fighters, which seem to be 3D-printed on the spot in the hangar bay on an as-needed basis?
I didn't particularly want to name my SRVs, its actually the ship serial number I'd want to replicate to it, as that's what I use to label my ships with the group's tag - so your idea of adding an automated serial number to that would work just fine!
However, SRVs do seem to be individually purchased, and tend to live longer than fighters, so getting attached to one and giving it a name isn't too much of a stretch of the imagination.
