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can a developer answer this question please? I have numerous starships with the name Lexington. as follows.
Lexington
ncc 197910

Lexington-A
ncc 197910

Lexington-b
ncc 197910

Lexington-C
ncc 197910

Lexington-D
ncc 197910

My question is this. How come when we try to do like the actual format and put the letter by the actual numbers it says I already have a ship named Lexington. is this a bug of some sort and if so is it going to be fixed soon so we can name our starships and future starships with the same name properly. If I made my post question with any sense. I hope if a developer or mod has the time they can answer this question. I am only posting this because a fleet member asked me about my lexington d why didn't I put the D at the end of the registry number instead where I put it by the end of the name Lexington.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    I once thought as you did about this.

    I wanted the canon way to use my favoruite name on all my ships without having to put the registry letter in the name title, but next to the registry numbers as that's the canon way.

    Then it hit me, canon, canon is that only one ship with the name can exist at any one time.

    Then I was happy and considered a new naming convention of my ships.

    Instead of all being USS Harlot

    I then followed harlot convention into:

    USS Aphrodite
    USS Callisto
    USS Harpy

    You see the chain of thought?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Sirius39 wrote:
    I once thought as you did about this.

    I wanted the canon way to use my favoruite name on all my ships without having to put the registry letter in the name title, but next to the registry numbers as that's the canon way.

    Then it hit me, canon, canon is that only one ship with the name can exist at any one time.

    Then I was happy and considered a new naming convention of my ships.

    Instead of all being USS Harlot

    I then followed harlot convention into:

    USS Aphrodite
    USS Callisto
    USS Harpy

    You see the chain of thought?

    That's a very good way of looking at it. Another way would be to consider that each Ship you own is a unique item available to your character. If they were all named exactly the same thing, the database (And you) would have difficulties telling them apart easily.

    I fly the Bird of Prey I.K.S. Lollipop, I also fly the Vo'Quv I.K.S. Lollipop-D. So, when I go to switch into a different vessel, I can tell which ship I'm jumping into based off of the letter I assigned to it, and the database knows the difference based off of that as well.

    Thanks,

    Stormshade
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    If you'd like to change the Lexington to your current ship ...

    Rename your old Lexington. To something else. Or discharge it. (I suggest renaming).

    Then rename your current ship to the Lexington. And put the letter in the registry.

    It's how I've done it with some of my ships.

    Though my main character is a little different. I use a different name. But each one has to start with the letter G. I don't know why. It just sort of went like that, and by the time I was Commander I was like "woah, let's keep this going."
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Another way to keep a favorite name as you upgrade. Is to rename older vessels before you name your newest ship. Sure it might be silly to have older ships with higher letter designations. But its no more silly then having to put the letter designation of your primary newest vessel at the end of the name rather then before.

    And on the plus side it gives ya something to spend all those unused merits on. ;)



    Edited....*points to Chum* yea, what he said before me.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Thanks for all the great advice so far. I'm taking them all in and going to sit on this and think about what i should do if anyone else has any other ideas or if any other cryptic devs have any comments I welcome them as well and thanks Stormshade.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Well, apart from causing weirdness in the database to have a bunch of ships with the same name, there is a canon reason.

    No two ships, while in service, can have the same name. So, before you can have USS Enterprise NCC-1701-A, you must first scuttle NCC-1701 and let it crash into the Genesis planet. Make sense?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    The one thing that bothers me, is that I can have the Lexington, you can have the Lexington, Peter can have the Lexington, Bob can have the Lexington, everyone in the game can have the Lexington. But if I try to have two Lexingtons no way!!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    innocuous9 wrote:
    ....here is a canon reason.

    No two ships, while in service, can have the same name. ...

    Sorry for posting twice in a row, but as I said above any number of people can have a ship named Lexington (or whatever you like) its just one person that can't have more than one ship named the Lexington.

    So there could be as many lexingtons as there are subscribers with each person owning only one.

    I can't name my new ship the same as my old ship but you can.


    :confused:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    naphl wrote: »
    The one thing that bothers me, is that I can have the Lexington, you can have the Lexington, Peter can have the Lexington, Bob can have the Lexington, everyone in the game can have the Lexington. But if I try to have two Lexingtons no way!!

    This drives me nuts as well.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    I think if I decide to keep a name I will rename my old ship adding M as a suffix for museum.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    innocuous9 wrote:
    Well, apart from causing weirdness in the database to have a bunch of ships with the same name, there is a canon reason.

    No two ships, while in service, can have the same name. So, before you can have USS Enterprise NCC-1701-A, you must first scuttle NCC-1701 and let it crash into the Genesis planet. Make sense?

    I suppose. I ust dont' use the ships I keep them mothballed in my collection. I don't really want to delete them.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    WarpVis wrote: »
    I think if I decide to keep a name I will rename my old ship adding M as a suffix for museum.

    How could I fit that into the name so it would let my current incarnation of my lexington look correct in the name?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    WarpVis wrote: »
    I think if I decide to keep a name I will rename my old ship adding M as a suffix for museum.


    Thank you for your wonderful idea!

    here's what I did!

    Lexington-M
    ncc 197910

    Lexington-A-M
    ncc 197910

    Lexington-B-M
    ncc 197910

    Lexington-C-M
    ncc 197910

    Lexington
    ncc 197910-D

    Now it looks totally official!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    I ended up going like this

    Apophis
    99942-A

    Then went
    Apophis II
    99942-B

    And so on ship I us now is
    Apophis IV
    99942-E
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    superchum wrote: »
    If you'd like to change the Lexington to your current ship ...

    Rename your old Lexington. To something else. Or discharge it. (I suggest renaming).

    Then rename your current ship to the Lexington. And put the letter in the registry.

    It's how I've done it with some of my ships.

    Though my main character is a little different. I use a different name. But each one has to start with the letter G. I don't know why. It just sort of went like that, and by the time I was Commander I was like "woah, let's keep this going."

    I was doing this for my U.S.S. Victory (Escort, I thought it'd be fitting) until I ran into the USS Victory at end game, and then I felt 'blah' and changed the name of my fugly err I mean fleet escort =)
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