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SgtPotato 06-17-09 07:49 PM

Changing the submarine's name to USS-some name
 
Sorry, guys. I couldn't find the thread about how to change the submarine's name to "USS-_________" by opening up with notepad. Can you guys point me to the right direction of a link? Thanks. :D

captgeo 06-17-09 07:53 PM

I do not know where it might be on this fourm, but here is a link to UBI that deals with that subject.

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/t...185#4971074185


and welcome aboard mate !!

SgtPotato 06-17-09 09:12 PM

oh thanks, man. That's what I'm looking for. :up:

mookiemookie 06-17-09 09:41 PM

Bad luck! :nope: :O:

captgeo 06-17-09 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie (Post 1119461)
Bad luck! :nope: :O:

OK, explain please, what is the "bad luck" part.......hmmmmm

Wicked Popsicle 06-17-09 10:58 PM

right when I changed the name of my boat I died on the mission. But of course I play the way of rambo on 100%. I usually die on the 2nd or 3rd mission anyway:hmmm:

Stealhead 06-17-09 11:15 PM

For a long time it has be considered bad luck to change the name of ship after it has be comissioned. The only exception is when a ship changes ownership from one navy to another.

Akula4745 06-18-09 05:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Wicked Popsicle (Post 1119476)
right when I changed the name of my boat I died on the mission. But of course I play the way of rambo on 100%. I usually die on the 2nd or 3rd mission anyway:hmmm:

LOL Wicked!

Torplexed 06-18-09 07:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wicked Popsicle (Post 1119476)
right when I changed the name of my boat I died on the mission. But of course I play the way of rambo on 100%. I usually die on the 2nd or 3rd mission anyway:hmmm:

Try changing your sub's name to USS Rambofish. When the enemy sees that black headband around the conning tower, they'll flee.

SgtPotato 06-18-09 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Torplexed (Post 1119576)
Try changing your sub's name to USS Rambofish. When the enemy sees that black headband around the conning tower, they'll flee.

:har:

mookiemookie 06-18-09 09:17 AM

When they raised the Squalus and got her back into service, they renamed her the Sailfish. All of the sailors who served on her knew her history though and called her the Squal-fish.

It's a case of renaming a ship not leading to bad luck; she survived the war and had 40,000 tons of sunk ships to show for it.

Or maybe it wasn't...the Squalfish sunk the Japanese aircraft carrier Chuyo which was carrying the survivors of the Sculpin (who was the boat who had found where the Squalus had gone down in 1939) as POWs. Only one of them survived the sinking.

Wicked Popsicle 06-18-09 12:17 PM

I can name my boat the rambofish and put Duel M-60s on my boat to take on the japs and if a task force gets to close I gut them with my big rambo knife:arrgh!:
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o..._rob/rambo.jpg

Task Force 06-18-09 01:11 PM

There are some lines you have to change in the save file.:up:

oah and you died after changeing it... well you know what they say.

Highbury 06-18-09 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie (Post 1119613)
When they raised the Squalus and got her back into service, they renamed her the Sailfish. All of the sailors who served on her knew her history though and called her the Squal-fish.

Well the sailors were threatened by Cmdr. Morton C. Mumma, Jr. (the fist Captain after re-commission) with being marooned at the next port of call if the referred to the ship as Squalus, so they came up with the nickname Squalfish. The Skipper liked that no better and threatened courts-martial if he heard it lol.

Stealhead 06-18-09 07:37 PM

It is just an old sailor tradtion not to rename name a ship so long as it is in the same Navy so you could change the name if this ship went from the Navy to the Coast Guard. And if you belive in luck or not the Squalus/Sailfish did have the misfortune of killed her allies (even though the crew did not know POWs where aborad). in a strange way was it fate that a ceratin amount of men would die in realtion to the Squalus in some way shape or form its almost like it was Squalus was going to take the men that should have died inside her in 1939. Or could the bad arua around Squalus been so bad it even spread to the Sculpin two times over? Very weird if you sit and think about it.

Another old sailor thing. They used to think if you had a chicken and a pig tattooed on your feet it meant that youd survive if you went overboard or your ship sank. In the age of sail the crates they kept chickens in tended to stay afloat the longest.


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