ship names?

Sailor Steve · 07-07-10, 09:17 AM

Over 11,000 names now, organized so when you sink a ship it gets the name that matches the size and appearance of the one you sank.

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Originally Posted by Captain Nemo

I never knew that, I wonder what would happen though if you used up all the ship names of a particular class?

It would start over. That's a fault of the game, which is supposedly fixed in SH5. But there are enough in each category that you should be okay.

jangles · 07-07-10, 10:45 AM

so the name of the ship would appear automatically in your log? , or do yiou have to identify it ingame before you sink it?

are all ships named?, even smaller merchant vessels?

frau kaleun · 07-07-10, 10:55 AM

It only works via SH3 Commander, and (I presume) only if you check the "use real ship names" option.

In order to populate your patrol log with real ship names from the shipnames file, after you finish a patrol you must exit the game and reopen Commander. Select that career and click on "other available actions" for that kaleun and then click "update personnel file" to update his info with the results of the patrol you just finished. That will trigger Commander to generate a patrol log using real ship names for the sinkings in that patrol.

You must update the personnel file first in order to see real ship names in your patrol log.

As far as I can tell you don't have to ID a ship in the game for this to work, since the Ship Names feature assigns a name based on the class of ship sunk, which the game knows and adds to your in-game log even if you didn't ID it correctly as such (or at all).

I have not yet sunk anything that wasn't given a name with this feature, including some pretty small stuff.

Gerald · 07-07-10, 10:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Over 11,000 names now, organized so when you sink a ship it gets the name that matches the size and appearance of the one you sank.

It would start over. That's a fault of the game, which is supposedly fixed in SH5. But there are enough in each category that you should be okay.

A new mod to my "list"

frau kaleun · 07-07-10, 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Vendor

A new mod to my "list"

Note that this is a "mod" used by SH3 Commander, not the game itself. If you're using one of the more recent versions of Commander you already have it, just select "use real ship names" from Commander's options. Then if you like you can download Steve's updated ship names file each month and overwrite the current version with the newer one.

JScones · 01-14-11, 02:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

It would start over. That's a fault of the game, which is supposedly fixed in SH5. But there are enough in each category that you should be okay.

Only if the "RepeatWhenAllUsed" setting in Ship names.cfg is set to 1.

07-07-10, 10:45 AM	#2
jangles Sailor man Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 48 Downloads: 84 Uploads: 0	so the name of the ship would appear automatically in your log? , or do yiou have to identify it ingame before you sink it? are all ships named?, even smaller merchant vessels?

07-07-10, 10:55 AM	#3
frau kaleun Rear Admiral Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Skyri--oh who are we kidding, I'm probably at Lowe's. Again. Posts: 12,706 Downloads: 168 Uploads: 0	It only works via SH3 Commander, and (I presume) only if you check the "use real ship names" option. In order to populate your patrol log with real ship names from the shipnames file, after you finish a patrol you must exit the game and reopen Commander. Select that career and click on "other available actions" for that kaleun and then click "update personnel file" to update his info with the results of the patrol you just finished. That will trigger Commander to generate a patrol log using real ship names for the sinkings in that patrol. You must update the personnel file first in order to see real ship names in your patrol log. As far as I can tell you don't have to ID a ship in the game for this to work, since the Ship Names feature assigns a name based on the class of ship sunk, which the game knows and adds to your in-game log even if you didn't ID it correctly as such (or at all). I have not yet sunk anything that wasn't given a name with this feature, including some pretty small stuff.