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Originally Posted by Bikedancer
a little OT question though: a minor annoyance in previous versions was the disappointment to see a french/spanish name for a sunken ship that was clearly british (or commonwealth). Similarly, polish ships turned out to be named after english places. 
Has it been possible to do something about it using the campaign.RND? |
Unfortunately the answer is yes and no. Yes, it would be possible to create a ship model clone for each merchant for each country, so when you sank a 5200-ton Polish merchant it would recieve the name of a 5200-ton Polish merchant.
The first problem is that in my extensive and exhaustive (and exhausting) Ship Names research I've found that there are only so many types used by any one country. I could guarantee that in most cases the ship name you got would be a name exactly corresponding to the ship you sank. However, there might actually only be one name corresponding to that type, so every time you sank one you would get the same name.
The second problem is that for each clone created the loading time would be increased. If every ship was nation-specific you might be looking at waiting for as much as an hour for the game to load.
SH4 makes it easier, so when that finally gets done it should be better.