Customizing Names and Unit Division's

Scphs wrote:

Customizing units I believe is something most players want, For example, you click on your medium tank division and see "22nd Medium tank division" this unit has like 15 confirmed kills you start to give it a name in your head but want to see it on the actual unit, this unit is your best so how cool would it be if you could rename them to something like '7th Panzer Division' or if this is a Solo Elite Unit tank wouldn't it be sick to name it 'Fury' or 'Eagle 7' or give it its own flag? Your enemies would see this and check its status or do what they do and they would turn tail and run! Or like naming an Elite Fighter Squadron of yours something like 'Jagdgeschwader 11' or another awesome name. I feel like these customizational options would make the units your play with feel like Your Units, Your Divisions that have been through it all with their awesome General.

Another customizational feature I thought that would bring this all together is if you had 3 options whilst loading into your nation for a flag, Germany for example, you have 3 flag options 1. Is the Nazi parties flag during World War Two. 2. is the German flag before Hitler changed it 3. would be the flag after World War Two.

I think that these options would incredibly expand the player's personality and the gameplay also.

Thanks for reading this, Scphs.

Yeah I though about that, Thanks for the feedback though!

We are allowed to name battleships and expensive units right?

Why would division names be any different. Also, what part of the ToS does this violate?

whowh wrote:

We are allowed to name battleships and expensive units right?

Why would division names be any different. Also, what part of the ToS does this violate?

From the terms of service

It is strictly prohibited to chose a name with content which is pornographic, racist, inciteful, glorifies war and/or violence, offensive or otherwise illegal (or in this case a tank division name)

https://forum.callofwar.com/index.php?thread/6985-terms-of-call-of-war/

From the in-game rules

Imagery related to fascism and National Socialism is strictly forbidden. If you use such symbols, names, or praise of National Socialism and fascism

https://forum.callofwar.com/index.php?thread/8855-map-in-game-rules/

Agent Orange wrote:

From the terms of service

It is strictly prohibited to chose a name with content which is pornographic, racist, inciteful, glorifies war and/or violence, offensive or otherwise illegal (or in this case a tank division name)

forum.callofwar.com/index.php?…985-terms-of-call-of-war/

From the in-game rules

Imagery related to fascism and National Socialism is strictly forbidden. If you use such symbols, names, or praise of National Socialism and fascism

forum.callofwar.com/index.php?thread/8855-map-in-game-rules/

Just wondering what the legal implications were.

Good suggestion. It can be added when the division goes "enthusiastic" read my article Veterancy and Enthusiasm.

But there's a drawback. Some dumb players will give names like... Abusive/fascist/racist/sexist/nfsw.. So not a good suggestion until the devs make sure anything inappropriate doesn't go there.

Is that the nickname of troops?

i do understand the reason why this isn't added but i still wish it was in the game. i mean idk why i just really wanna call my divisions "static infantry" for some reason.

Still dont know why we cant name ships. You give BB and CA names that never appear until sunk in the newspaper. Force BV23 doesn't mean a lot.

I can see this in the game, but knowing Bytro they won't add this, because people can put inappropriate stuff, but then again you can code the game to censor that like Roblox does.

I still don’t understand why Bytro doesn’t add an auto-censor filter to the game. Then things like this wouldn’t be a problem.

Komrade Khrushchev wrote:

I still don’t understand why Bytro doesn’t add an auto-censor filter to the game. Then things like this wouldn’t be a problem.

Should we ping, or go to his wall?

Perhaps I am old school at 66 but I remember crawling around the floor with 1:1200 model ships!

The thought of re-naming the 23rd Infantry Regiment the 23rd P***s Brigade never entered my head till I read this thread.

I tend to name carriers after leaders, battleships after Counties/states, subs after fish etc. Unfortunately on here we cant do the lower stuff. Also part of the reason is because Bytro dont allow you to group things sensibly. So if BV21 (a cruiser) is amalgamated with BV08 and BV17 two destroyers it probably all becomes BV21 Cruiser squadron and BV08 and BV17 lose their identities to be allocated to the next two 'forces' to be produced. Always thought this stupid. Other war games would keep the original ID's and group them under a new ID so if the new one 'lost' some members through attrition or further re-organisation the ones re-organised would revert back their original ID's. The concept of sets and subsets.

Komrade Khrushchev wrote:

Should we ping, or go to his wall?

I don’t think it’s a good idea to do this. The wehraboos are gonna start renaming their units after Waffen-SS divisions.

Phillip Bosley wrote:

I don’t think it’s a good idea to do this. The wehraboos are gonna start renaming their units after Waffen-SS divisions.

i feel like a better option would be giving the player some options to choose your unit name, like "34th Grenadier Division" or "41st Static Infantry Division" would be a better option, tho thats just my idea

It is more relevant to ships, though I notice in the history everything seems to referred to as infantry when it isnt.

NEPTUNE the great wrote:

Komrade Khrushchev wrote:

Should we ping, or go to his wall?

We should go to his wall

An auto-filter may help but won't solve all problems. We have auto-filters for chat messages and for name registration since a long time and people can easily circumvent them. Static filters really only catch a small fraction. I guess we could use better ones, perhaps AI driven, but it also comes at a cost (implementing it and then having it run permanently on all messages). Then the question comes if this changes is even worth the effort and potential trouble (the answer of a product manager would probably be: no). On the other hand, we want to try out more AI-driven filters for chat messages anyway, so in that sense I could imagine that it could be expanded to all types of user text that is put into the game, which, if it works correctly, could make this a possibility.

Still, apart from the filtering aspect, implementing the change and storing all the text in some database would still have certain costs to it, so its not a no-brainer-yes and still has to compete with other suggestions/efforts.