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Originally Posted by aergistal
How is your ship name collection organized, Steve? Do you have names and time frames for each ship?
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Not exactly. For SH3 I have a list of every ship that sailed in the British convoy system, and a book that lists every merchant of any nation that was afloat or under construction in 1939. I take each ship from the list, find a picture if I can, and match it to an in-game model, so if you sink that model it will be assigned the name of a ship of similar size and appearance, or just size if I can't find a picture. I also have the tonnage, as I wish it was possible to do away with the randomizer and give each ship sunk the actual tonnage.
For SH4 I have the ONI ID Book with every Japanese merchant listed, so I can do those ships any time, since they are quite easy to find.
SH3 Commander now assignes a historic name to the ship, as well as what cargo it was carrying (randomized, as a ship might have been carrying any one of several cargoes when sunk) and how many crew were aboard and how many were killed.
As for time frames, I could find out exactly when each ship entered service, but I think an approximation based on the type of ship is close enough. Also if we can assign names to specific countries then those ships won't be available until that nation enters the war.