Custom Fleet Names?

[TurinTurambar]

Wenin said:
BK, that was the original question I started the thread with. =)

Why did you feel the need to get hostile?

No hostility was intended. My real life tone gets a bit vulgar at times depending on who I'm hangin' out with, and that should've just read: "When you click... the text is already highlighted so just type something."

[Wenin]

Everyone knows that you can type your own fleet names. Why point out the obvious?

[Black_Knyght]

Okay, now you're just being pissy.

[Parasite]

I think the fleet names are stored somewhere in your Empire file. Whenever I have saved my empire and used it again the fleet names start out where they were before the save. After a while they wrap and you have multiple spaces between the fleet letters.

I try not to use my keyboard much when playing and so almost always keep what names I am given. What I wouldn't give for an honest "Alpha Fleet" and not an "Alpha space space space space space Epsilon Gamma Fleet".

[Wenin]

LOL

Now that you mention it, I recall seeing those spaces.

[dogscoff]

That's a definite wishlist item for se5: Specify a file from the designname folder (or whatever the equivalent in se5 will be) for fleets as well as one for ships.

[sachmo]

Strikefleet XXX

[Slick]

Stupid Fleet Tricks


The best thing about fleet names to me is that no other player can see them. Your ship names are viewable to all so it isn't a good idea to name your minesweeper "Minesweeper v2.3". (save the name game for another thread). But you can safely name your fleets with names that help you manage without fear of another player using that to their advantage. I use a shorthand system for fleets that tells me from name alone what the function, composition, destination, and some other things like if it is now short on minesweeping or repair capability etc. I also change fleet names to update those things. You can also put single ships in fleets for this reason, in addition to giving it the fleet combat bonuses (in addition to the crew combat bonuses). I always create numerous 1-ship fleets at a fleet training planet so that as a minimum, I can give any new ship/fleet a fully trained fleet to "move into". You can even make a 1-ship fleet out of a mothballed ship at your training planets. The mothballed ship won't receive any crew training but the fleet will be trained up and ready for use at a moment's notice.

[Cipher7071]

I've found that sometimes giving a fleet the name of the system where it was created or trained helps me to remember things like its history or experience level. I've named fleets 'retrofit fleet' at times when I wanted to send a large number of ships to a location with plenty of spaceyards for the job.