differentiating carriers: numbers or names

[Teyrana]

anyone else having problems telling their carriers apart? They all look the same, and the label in the build/launch menu just says "carrier"

While obviously being able to have custom names for these things would be nice, it would be nice even to just have a default carrier 01, 02 , etc...

anyone else think this would be nice?

oh, and since I haven't put it anywhere else, kickin game, Relic. Nice balance, beautiful graphics, and plenty of nice touches (mineable debris? that's just cool.)

[Arconin]

Ill second that motion. I had Three Carriers in a CPU skirmish. I had specific things in mind for each of them but found it near impossible in the buld manager to keep then straight. Being able to name them would be the best...but just having a numerical designation after the name would be fine as well.

[FooF]

Agreed, there needs to be a way to know which carrier your building from at a glance (within the build menu and not the reticle that pops up pointing to the ship you've selected).

Either name the carriers or give them a number that we can associate them with.

[PeanutR]

I, erhm, third that motion :/ But I'm not sure I would have time to name my carriers mid-skirmish, so maybe just having a bunch of premade name that would be chosen from randomly, and then having the naming option available for when/if the player finds the time...

[FooF]

Even if the carriers had pre-determined names (a la Cata) that's something

[JamesX]

yeah, that would be helpful, but when you click build the screen points to where the currently selected build unit is located. You know that teal circle and line that links to the UI. I have yet to be confused which carrer is building which and where. However when I just have the build queue on the left side of the screen it gets pretty darn confusing.

[malignus]

Ah... this calls to mind at least two threads we had in the ideas section some months ago. The general consensus was that there ought to be a text file that you can fill up with a bunch of prefabricated names that the game would choose from randomly whenever you built a carrier. Expanding this idea to capital ships, there could be different sections in the txt file with different name groups for each ship type.

Barring this elegant solution, a much simpler approach would be to automatically name the carriers Primary, Secondary, Tertiary and so on according to the order in which they were built.

[TimeBeast]

I must agree... some sort of unique identification system would be very useful with large ships. Then again, considering how many production ships there may be (shipyards, battleships with the right modules), it might be more effort than its worth.

[lemontea]

Well, looks like relic didn't listen or either it's not in the demo. I would have loved this feature :)

[Teyrana]

well, nice to know I'm not nuts.... given the number of detials that relic bothered to polish on this game, it's surprising that they left out such a [comparitively] simpler UI feature. Oh well... here's to hoping in v1.01

[Gyokuran]

Yeah, carrier names and/or numbers would be VERY helpful.

[TXCowboy26]

Maybe it'll be included in the first patch. (If not sooner.)

[malignus]

Originally posted by Teyrana
well, nice to know I'm not nuts.... given the number of detials that relic bothered to polish on this game, it's surprising that they left out such a [comparitively] simpler UI feature.

No it's not. In fact, it's unsurprising for exactly the reason you just gave. They put a great deal of effort into polishing the game down to minor details, and unfortunately they didn't have the time to polish every single one of them. That's what patches are for these days.

[Gyokuran]

Originally posted by TXCowboy26
Maybe it'll be included in the first patch. (If not sooner.)
Well, you cant get much sooner than the first patch. :P

[MajorFreak]

i just follow the yellow line, dudes!

[TXCowboy26]

Originally posted by Gyokuran

Well, you cant get much sooner than the first patch. :P

Who knows ... Maybe Relic will make a post-gold-pre-patch not-to-be-called-a-patch patch. =)

[luther]

Since the game allows decals, maybe the number (or name) could be rendered to a decal and placed on capital ships as well. Just a thought.
Luther.