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Why are we limited to registry numbers in the 90000 region?

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Is there a reason behind this? What if I want my date of birth as my registry? or my favourite number? or anythin more personal?

Why are the rest of the numbers restricted?

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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Is there a reason behind this? What if I want my date of birth as my registry? or my favourite number? or anythin more personal?

    Why are the rest of the numbers restricted?

    90,000 - 999,999

    It's not a small range.

    But if you're asking why you can't use numbers less than 90,000 - I'd hazard a guess that this is because CBS/Paramount has reserved that range for 'real' ships.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Canon registries go into the 70000's - I guess the intervening years between ST: Nemesis and the STO timeline were used for the 80000's - maybe it's a CBS thing.

    *Edit* Beat me to it :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    CBS dictated restriction.

    They don't want players using existing numbers, and they want to leave a large section of numbers for official use in future work.



    -np
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