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Anyone know why I can't have 2 ships with the same name? I put an A after the NCC number but for whatever reason the name I put in won't stay. Is this a bug or working as intended?
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I have the same problem i bugged it but i think it works as developers intended. They should change it thoe imho.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    ya I wanted to name my new ship the same as my TOS connie but I cannot do it, or at least it doesn't stay when I click OK. No error message or nothing it just doesn't stick.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    You cannot have 2 ships with the same name. Registration numbers do not count.

    Alter the name of the previous ship, then you can put the old name on your new ship.

    That's how it goes.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    T77 wrote:
    Anyone know why I can't have 2 ships with the same name? I put an A after the NCC number but for whatever reason the name I put in won't stay. Is this a bug or working as intended?

    Working as intended.

    This question was asked in beta and a dev replied. If I remember correctly, the name of the ship is used in character data storage, so only one ship of the same name per character.

    You can, however, rename your old ship to a new name and then give that name to the new one.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Funny thing is someone else can have the same name as your ship, but you cannot.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Scrapyard old, lesser ship. Unveil new shiny powerhouse with desirable moniker.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I dislike the fact that "other" players can have the same ship name. That sort of ruins the immersion factor for some I would wager, but I'll deal with it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Kallador wrote: »
    I dislike the fact that "other" players can have the same ship name. That sort of ruins the immersion factor for some I would wager, but I'll deal with it.

    Without that ability, we'd wind up with lot more "bad "ship names, from misspellings to random button mashing to just frustrated people taking names they wouldn't otherwise take.

    Especially when you factor in how many ships each character can have and that we are all on one server...

    So, I'd say, overall, it probably helps immersion more than it hurts it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    *beats the horse*
    Cant have color change weapons cause that breaks cannon
    but CAN have two ships, differrent classes/roles/hulls/sizes with the same name flying at the same time
    yeah THAT doesnt break cannon
    Axterix wrote:
    Especially when you factor in how many ships each character can have and that we are all on one server....

    4 is alot Im guessing? Or did they change that?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Axterix wrote:
    Working as intended.

    This question was asked in beta and a dev replied. If I remember correctly, the name of the ship is used in character data storage, so only one ship of the same name per character.

    You can, however, rename your old ship to a new name and then give that name to the new one.

    or just delete the old ship since you wil never need it again
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Kallador wrote: »
    I dislike the fact that "other" players can have the same ship name. That sort of ruins the immersion factor for some I would wager, but I'll deal with it.

    This would just make people fill up all available ship space on all alts with all the ship names they want to reserve. Non-unique ship names may be a little undesirable, but the alternatives are worse.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I do not have an issue with the current setup with respect to other players being able to name their ships the same as mine (I do have an issue with me not truly being able to make a USS Angmar-B without resorting to correct hull identification numbers but incorrect ship name - though an incorrect ship name is minor).

    I personally think that the immersion breaker of very rarely seeing another USS Angmar is MUCH less than having to look at a ship name I dislike every day.

    That being said - your issue with why we should/could not do it is normal in nearly every other MMO on the planet so I do not really see that as a minus. There are plenty of names out there.

    Heck, I almost always have a character named after myself. In LOTRO I was irritated because all my choices for Brian were "taken" - after an update allowed a server wide search on names I found out that my name 'Brianwald" was the *only* "Brian" prefaced name out there - my craptacular next to last place winning choice of "Brianor" was rejected not because someone else had thought of it, but because the name filter rejected it.

    I find the latter MUCH more frustrating than the system we have in STO. Indeed, I find that the idea of letting me have whatever base name I want and then try to make said name unique MUCH more immersive than nearly any system I have otherwise seen. In the real world there is often name overlaps. While not so much in starfleet ship naming, of the things that starfleet doesn't do (say, have all 40 of the people in an instance all have followed the exact same story) this is a small non-cannon immersive idea that geatly works out in other game play areas.
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