Unit renaming

There is also an issue or when producing nameable units in the queue or in mass (shift clicking in the production menu and producing BB's in five of your navy yards). The units are not named by yourself at that point.

Personal, I think that nameable units should should be named after a random province under the player control, so that:

1. the names are mostly historically accurate

2. the names are not offensive or inappropriate

3. the naming process saves the users brain powers

Now for the people who want to actually want to apply a name to a unit, there should a "rechristening" option that allows the units to be renamed.

There, problem solved

NukeRaider33 wrote:

1. the names are mostly historically accurate

2. the names are not offensive or inappropriate

3. the naming process saves the users brain powers

2. I agree, but just add a filter

3. I don't know about other players, but I have a system that does not require much thought

injinji wrote:

I don't know about other players, but I have a system that does not require much thought

I get that a lot

NukeRaider33 wrote:

injinji wrote:

I don't know about other players, but I have a system that does not require much thought

My brains operating system is Windows XP, so......

I get that a lot

Well, P.I.X.A.L, if you say so.

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You might be more useful outside the computer though.

How about rename units for a couple hundred gold coins?

You mean money or gold?

injinji wrote:

When a real life country sells a ship to another country, the latter will usually rename it.

So, add this to the list of ideas for Call of War which would be nice, but have a low priority. If this is something that could be accomplished by a software programmer in 15 to 30 minutes, sure, go ahead, do it now. But if costs Bytro Labs any amount of real money, it will probably never happen.

That said, I also like Vorlon's idea of charging a small fee in gold, say, 25 to 50 gold units, for the privilege of naming capital ships. If it's a successful money-raiser, it could even be expanded to other kinds of units.

As for my own naming habits, when I play the United States (or a subpart of it), Britain, or one of the Commonwealth countries, I will usually christen my ships with the names of historically significant vessels from those countries. For Russia and its subparts, I like to name them after Russian naval heroes (of whom there are surprisingly many). Other countries with no real naval tradition (e.g., Ukraine, Mongolia, China subparts), I usually use a combination of city and province names in some combination. My all time favorites, though, are using the various Mongolian words for horse for my aircraft carriers when I play that country on the Pacific map.

Sadly, however, most the ship names I encounter in games are about what you would expect from the imagination of a 16-year-old boy with precious little knowledge of history.

I enjoy naming the capital ships and like putting a little effort into it.

I do wish that name was displayed a little more prominently (and often). As far as I can tell, the name is only mentioned when the ship is completed (in the World Herald) or when it’s destroyed (in the World Herald).

I’d like the battle group the ship is part of to be named after the ship or, at the very least, when I click on the ship it display its name.

Charlemagne877 wrote:

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I do wish that name was displayed a little more prominently (and often). As far as I can tell, the name is only mentioned when the ship is completed (in the World Herald) or when it’s destroyed (in the World Herald).

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Touché. Still I’d like to know which ship is which by clicking on it.

I quite like naming ships but I've never been a fan of using the same name more than once, unless I use the same name for every ship. I quickly ran out of names long ago.

NukeRaider33 wrote:

Personal, I think that nameable units should should be named after a random province under the player control, so that:

1. the names are mostly historically accurate

2. the names are not offensive or inappropriate

3. the naming process saves the users brain powers

Now for the people who want to actually want to apply a name to a unit, there should a "rechristening" option that allows the units to be renamed.

There, problem solved

NukeRaider33 wrote:

My brains operating system is Windows XP, so......

I get that a lot

MontanaBB wrote:

Sadly, however, most the ship names I encounter in games are about what you would expect from the imagination of a 16-year-old boy with precious little knowledge of history.

VorlonFCW wrote:

How about rename units for a couple hundred gold coins?

Charlemagne877 wrote:

when I click on the ship it display its name.

Oh, okay. I’m playing on my phone and neither the app nor my browser display anything like that.

Ah, It is harder to fit everything in the smaller mobile format. Mobile is more intended as a companion to using the desktop version than a stand alone experience, but there are a lot of people who play on mobile only.