Ship Names

Signa · July 3, 2002, 18:34

This idea was floated by a few people for Civ3 itself, but i wonder if anyone else thinks they should include this little cosmetic change.

It could work like this...

*Name Replaces Unit Type, or a hypen*
*Stats*
*Terrain*

And BTW, the automatic name for a ship could be a historical name, like "Enterprise" for America or "Yamato" for Japan, or they could use the city lists. People could of course custom and modify the names.

alva · July 3, 2002, 18:43

Not on the top of my list

, but sure why not

zulu9812 · July 3, 2002, 18:58

I think in PTW, we'll be able to rename elite units that produce leaders (so that's only land units sadly). Can anyone confirm this?

Dan Magaha FIRAXIS · July 3, 2002, 19:39

As I've said before, I think you'll be very pleased by the cool stuff that's been crammed into the forthcoming patch.

Dan

The_Aussie_Lurker · July 3, 2002, 21:18

Hey Dan, you are such a TEASE sometimes!!!

Don't suppose you could drop us a few HINTS, or, at the least, let us know HOW forthcoming it is

Anyway, keep up the great work Dan!

Yours,
The_Aussie_Lurker.

Seeker · July 4, 2002, 00:32

I suggested this way back when...

Remember the old 'White Wolf Studios' game "Empire Deluxe'?

In that game, every completed unit, land sea or air, was given a random title based on its city.

So you'd get 101 Shurrupak Infantry, or 3rd Isandlwana Tank Guards Division.

And the slot was clickable, so you could rename them whatever you wanted (Emperor Seeker's Praetorian Guard for example)

alva · July 4, 2002, 00:58

Quote:

Originally posted by Dan Magaha FIRAXIS
As I've said before, I think you'll be very pleased by the cool stuff that's been crammed into the forthcoming patch.

Dan

Quote:

Hey Dan, you are such a TEASE sometimes!!!
Don't suppose you could drop us a few HINTS, or, at the least, let us know HOW forthcoming it is
Anyway, keep up the great work Dan!

If this isn't one, i don't what the hell
a hint would look like

Start thinking up names for your ships and army's my friends

zulu9812 · July 4, 2002, 07:29

Quote:

Originally posted by Seeker
I suggested this way back when...

Remember the old 'White Wolf Studios' game "Empire Deluxe'?

In that game, every completed unit, land sea or air, was given a random title based on its city.

So you'd get 101 Shurrupak Infantry, or 3rd Isandlwana Tank Guards Division.

And the slot was clickable, so you could rename them whatever you wanted (Emperor Seeker's Praetorian Guard for example)

That is very, very cool

Carver · July 4, 2002, 15:11

After that tease Dan gave us I'll wait as long as necessary to get this patch. Unit naming will rock. Anything that helps the civer get more immersed in the game is good.

HazieDaVampire · July 4, 2002, 16:54

a strait answer would be better, his little games are just getting us angry and worried! AHHHH, DOES THAT MEAN ITS IN OR NOT! OH GOD, IS THIS HOLE XP GOING TO BE A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME!? IS IT! COME ON! TELL ME! IS THIS JUST ANOTHER GET RICH QUICK PLAN? COME, TELL ME, I'LL UNDERSTAND, I'M NOT 3 YEARS OF AGE!

Thrawn05 · July 4, 2002, 22:26

Quote:

Originally posted by Signa
This idea was floated by a few people for Civ3 itself, but i wonder if anyone else thinks they should include this little cosmetic change.

It could work like this...

*Name Replaces Unit Type, or a hypen*
*Stats*
*Terrain*

And BTW, the automatic name for a ship could be a historical name, like "Enterprise" for America or "Yamato" for Japan, or they could use the city lists. People could of course custom and modify the names.

Kinda like SW Rebellion... I like it.

XarXo · July 5, 2002, 13:51

Could be great put a name to land areas (America, Europe, Gibraltar Straight, Atlantic Sea....) and that the owner of the land area of where the invisible pole is could change it (this should be an option avaible in the editor, for avoid Bananalands in an accurate scenario).

Also, this names could be used in negotiation "withdraw the troops that are near Sapporo, in Australia" for example

(specially useful after the civ has created Sapporo, New Sapporo, Sapporo 2 and New Sapporo 2

).

gachnar · July 6, 2002, 17:21

Quote:

Originally posted by HazieDaVampire
a strait answer would be better, his little games are just getting us angry and worried! AHHHH, DOES THAT MEAN ITS IN OR NOT! OH GOD, IS THIS HOLE XP GOING TO BE A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME!? IS IT! COME ON! TELL ME! IS THIS JUST ANOTHER GET RICH QUICK PLAN? COME, TELL ME, I'LL UNDERSTAND, I'M NOT 3 YEARS OF AGE!

Hmm... Well, every time they've given straight answers about development projects which are then left out for whatever reason, they have been publicly declared to be servants of Hades. Since some childish losers refuse to be able to handle pre-release rumors, they have to do things like this.

So quit whining.

Panag · July 7, 2002, 16:06

hi ,

all that is needed is a blank space that the players can fill in , ....

have a nice day

HazieDaVampire · July 7, 2002, 17:31

oh oh oh, and don't add any things that you cant delete, like HMS , or USS or IJN or whatever!
Actualy when i think of it, having them there as default would be good, but aslong as we can delete them!

Panag · July 7, 2002, 17:58

Quote:

Originally posted by HazieDaVampire
oh oh oh, and don't add any things that you cant delete, like HMS , or USS or IJN or whatever!
Actualy when i think of it, having them there as default would be good, but aslong as we can delete them!

hi ,

, delete , ...the option should be yes and no , and there should be the option to show it , on and off , ...

have a nice night

Carver · July 8, 2002, 14:37

I wonder what the name of Panag's first battleship or carrier will be.

Wise Ass · July 17, 2002, 01:37

Well his first one will be called Hi.

The last one will be Have a nice day.

It is the ones inbetween I am curious about.

Adm.Naismith · July 17, 2002, 03:52

Quote:

Originally posted by panag
...the option should be yes and no , and there should be the option to show it , on and off , ...
have a nice night

Panag, nothing personal (your post simply suggest my note, as the last of many others) but I noticed this forum as the largest "make it an option" place around here

Sometime I bet I missed someone requesting for a game starting pop-up "Do you want to play? Yes, I bought the whole thing with that purpose/No, just clicking around my computer desktop to waste some minute"

(And I noticed that the autorun CD pop-up ask me to Install or Play the Game, but that doesn't count IMHO

).

alva · July 17, 2002, 05:00

Quote:

Originally posted by Adm.Naismith

Panag, nothing personal (your post simply suggest my note, as the last of many others) but I noticed this forum as the largest "make it an option" place around here

Sometime I bet I missed someone requesting for a game starting pop-up "Do you want to play? Yes, I bought the whole thing with that purpose/No, just clicking around my computer desktop to waste some minute"

(And I noticed that the autorun CD pop-up ask me to Install or Play the Game, but that doesn't count IMHO

).

best one i saw all week

And yes i agree with you, this option obsession thing is getting silly.

Have a nice day

'yes'(suggested) or 'no'(default)

HazieDaVampire · July 17, 2002, 05:26

i thinks its cuz some people don't like some things we are asking for, so they'll like to be able to turn it off!

Quasar1011 · July 17, 2002, 12:23

I would be all for the "option" of labels, a la Sim City. That way, I can label geographic areas to help me when scanning around my empire. This feature could be toggled off when not needed, of course.

Jon Shafer · July 17, 2002, 13:17

Quote:

Originally posted by Quasar1011
I would be all for the "option" of labels, a la Sim City. That way, I can label geographic areas to help me when scanning around my empire. This feature could be toggled off when not needed, of course.

Yes, that's what I was thinking of also.

And to answer the initial question of this thread, there will be an option to name units with the next patch, either when they become elite, or through the editor.

ixnay · July 17, 2002, 15:33

New readme says you can rename units that generate a great leader, so it would appear that you can only rename land units without using the editor.

Dida · July 17, 2002, 15:40

If they can add the code to 'name units that generated a great leader' how hard is it to make such a feature available to all units?????

Adm.Naismith · July 18, 2002, 10:36

Quote:

Originally posted by Dida
how hard is it to make such a feature available to all units?????

Dida, I suppose that with common production rate it will be annoying to rename every unit produced to something worth it: sooner or later some player will ask to have a meaningful name assigned by default, then someone will complain about how historically (in)accurate the default names are, then someone will ask to have this function as an option because he/she's annoyed by the "name this unit" pop-up...

Ok, I'm sure you get it the potential mess

With my usual rat of a couple of Great Leader per game I'll have a nice opportunity to rename a unit as "Screaming Eagles", "Bande nere" or the like, without really slowing my game

Jon Shafer · July 18, 2002, 10:39

I hope there's an options to make Veteran -> Elite units nameable also... I have bad luck and I don't get very many GLs.

Carver · July 18, 2002, 11:00

After that tease I thought we would have a more comprehensive unit naming ability. Oh well, we can still scream until PTW comes out.

kring · July 18, 2002, 12:38

The default name would still be Warrior, Hoplite, etc. I would suspect.

Switch · July 18, 2002, 15:22

I think just naming GL producing units is good, although I'd prefer naming Elite units too. But I also think naming your armies would be neat; ex: an army of Cavalry you could name RCMP.

However, with the amount of navy ships produced, it would be nice to name more modern naval vessels as well, with such historic names as Enterprise and Yomato, etc.