SEIV: Iran Contra Scandal

[PvK]

The AI never re-names any ships.

The ship picture changes during a refit, unfortunately. I've been disappointed by that since SE3.

Another thing you can do, if you don't mind losing some flexibility, is to put a gifted ship into a fleet whose strategy is set to NOT break formation. This way the fleet strategy will override the ship strategy, so you won't have to worry about the gifting nation giving your ships a lame strategy (at least, not until damage forces the ship to break formation, in which case some of the design strategy might be used, but formation is broken mainly when the ship loses its weapons IIRC).

[Dizzy]

Well, something wrong here. 3 of the gifted ships I gave are sitting in the same spot for the last 3 turns. Why hasnt the AI sent them somewhere? They are just hanging out in empty space no where useful.

[Dizzy]

Bump.

Well, its been a year or so and those three ships are still sitting in the same spot...

They have used another ship I gave them and ran it all over the map. Why not the other 3? They are just sitting there using up resources.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Well, it's really simple.

See, the senate gave orders to the ships Bibbity, Bobbity and Boo to move to a certain planet. Congress gave orders to the ships Bibbity, Boo and Bobbity to attack. The ship captains, unsure of their orders, sent a request for a name change to Tinman, Lion and Scarecrow. The name change promptly got hung up in the filing system with the two conflicting orders, whereupon it (The name change) was picked up by the Department of Security as refering to three classified projects otherwise known as 'The Great Hotdog Caper', 'Seneter Kelly and A Skateboard' and 'Twenty-Two Uses for Twist-Ties'. Meanwhile, Congress noted that the attack orders bore twenty-two words in common with the classified project known as 'Twenty-Two Uses for Twist-Ties' (Unfortunatly, the Security Department (Not to be confused with the Department of Security (It is the job of the DoS to run classified security projects; it is the name of the SD to make sure they are indeed secret) renamed the project formorly known as 'Twenty-Two Uses for Twist-Ties' to 'Do-wop a be Bop') and so sent in a request for information on the project they thought was called 'Twenty-Two Uses for Twist-Ties', but instead is now named (Unbeknowest to them) 'Do-wop a be Bop'...

(Anybody want to see how long we can keep this coherent? )