Sugestion - new comand - swapname

[Maddox]

ok, we have a renameme command. All very well and good, but.......

A lot of player characters own more than one ship ( a transport, a fighter, a gb etc). The problem is, that you have to name them all differently. Say my char is called john.smith. I'd need john.smith.1, john.smith.2 and however many others. kind of kills the immersion.

What about a comand that simply swapped names between 2 characters on the same account. This would enable you to have multiple ships flying under the same name. Obviously only one at a time, but you see what I mean.

Thoughts?

[Mephistoles]

I always found using various punctuation to create unique names to be perfectly fine.

. , ; : ' '' ` ^ *

You can make plenty of ships out of using those in various combinations.

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Name your ships? better rp, much immersion.

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[Maddox]

I always found using various punctuation to create unique names to be perfectly fine.

. , ; : ' '' ` ^ *

You can make plenty of ships out of using those in various combinations.

Yeah, ok, but at best it's a workaround.

If people want to use it, it'd be there. If not, don't. Just an option.

[Epo]

IMHO Meph's solution is the best one and there are a lot of more important things to do and take care about. Using flhook/command connected stuff when it is not necessary is a bad idea. But it's just my opinion

[Maddox]

IMHO Meph's solution is the best one and there are a lot of more important things to do and take care about. Using flhook/command connected stuff when it is not necessary is a bad idea. But it's just my opinion

Ok. I agree that there are more important things to address. I'm not suggesting that this be top of the list, only that it's on there.

As for Meph's solution being the best.... As I said, it's a workaround. How can that be the best? Have to disagree with you there. It's the best option ATM, I'll grant you, but it's not ideal.

As for it not being necessary, well, no, it's not. Then again, nor is the rename. It's just useful. It makes life easier.

Cheers.

[The Savage]

Name your ship, it's easy in case of freighters, gunboats, caps and transports.

[Skorak]

But it is usually snubs that you have multiple of. The smallest part of the community has different versions of their capital vessel.

I just use the characters mentioned by Meph for my ships too. No one ever complained.

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[Laz]

ok, we have a renameme command. All very well and good, but.......

A lot of player characters own more than one ship ( a transport, a fighter, a gb etc). The problem is, that you have to name them all differently. Say my char is called john.smith. I'd need john.smith.1, john.smith.2 and however many others. kind of kills the immersion.

What about a comand that simply swapped names between 2 characters on the same account. This would enable you to have multiple ships flying under the same name. Obviously only one at a time, but you see what I mean.

Thoughts?

Even if it was desired i am pretty sure this is impossible, let alone something to waste time on.

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[Arioch]

The problems with this are say bounties and sanctions. If you do something wrong to warrant a bounty, then the bounty won't be just for that one ship, but all. Minor, but something to think about. Sanctions too. If you do something to warrant a sanction, then the Admins will have to deal punishment to both ships, since they won't know which ship specifically was the offender.

Think about driving a car - you have a unique license plate. It would be like switching out license plates to each vehicle you have when you drive it. Would cause too many issues and wouldn't work sadly.

As a former Admin, I'm pretty sure this would be next to impossible given how DSAM works server side too. Best bet is do what was mentioned above and use different punctuation symbols for your character names.

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