What I would liek to know if I can create a custom capship name list tot hat in MP my ships are automaticaly given one of the names I have selected for it. So I don't have to manuly rename them.

  I suppose im sometimes a bit obsessed by all of this, haha, but have been working along the lines you mentioned, just to see if i could find a reference SOMEWHERE, for the capitalshipnametype. Somewhere we haven't looked yet.

I thought perhaps that renaming the meshes, and the textures of a single ship, or perhaps one of the files in the base install folder has a reference for the capitalshipnametype? Like when files aren't listed in Entrenchment, but they pull from the base game folders.

No luck yet, but there is the ability to re-name them in game, that is tied to the executable of course. Perhaps the lines exist in the exe itself?

Hacking the exe though might be more than i can do with a hex editor.

Of course it would be nice if the exe "referenced" a file somewhere with the appropriate list of values, but it may not of course.

Or perhaps the GalaxyForge? I haven't looked at it closely enough since i have been having difficulties getting the templates to work right since the update.

I have also thought perhaps of some variant of the main three, or their in-game names, like Phase2 or Vasari as values that might be workable to get an additional list of ship names in game.

Has anyone hacked the exe at all?

Has anyone seen what it looks like and whether or not it is editable?

Sorry, going in circles here,

Hmmm....

What about registry entries for the game in Windows? are there values listed there for perhaps "Types"?

Or perhaps hidden folders or files in the game folders?

Probably not that cryptic. If I was a Dev, I would probably hard code it because its quicker or list it in a text file somewhere the game scans for its setup values when loading.

Well... still thinking, but stumped, because i cant of course look at any of this from school, but well... tonight I can look at some of it.

We could of course ask the Devs, Craig or Blair and they could say yes, or no, or maybe, or its coming be patient. 

Anyway, will get back with you and let you know how the search goes. 

Haha, like looking for harmonic valves that make cars run harmoniously,  Which may mean its in the exe and not to be found in a file at all, no matter how many i look through. 

Anyway, as Sherlock was famous for saying "The game is afoot!"

Still searching...

-Teal

  Well, the hacking the exe is really probably imoral and not too cool to the devs, and it is really beyond me anyway, so that was more frustration than anything talking. But I appreciate your help Harpo.

I was wondering if the name list is generated randomly or if it always picks the first name first. If so, could we simply append our custom list of names after the first 30 for phase and designate the ship to start with that?

I'm really grasping at straws here, but thought it might be simpler than finding something that doesnt exist. 

Thank you for the help Harpo!! 

-Teal

upon futrther testing with the correct string count YES we CAN add additional ship AND starbase names, and they are randomly selected, eg my first starbase used my ninth starbase name and the second starbase took the tenth name

harpo

teal the BAD news is that it is a SINGLE file not a case for a batch to convert files using the convertdata's between txt & bin, but I did start a string editing program but ran into some difficulties with it, and am trying to think around the problems of the error checking part of the program. I might just kill the error checking and mearly indicate the entity and reference value that is accessed, and add in planet,star,capital and starbase name edit, add and delete functions.

harpo

it will ONLY be a string file editor & also suit translators, I might drop the read entity files part as it will NEED the location of the reference files as the program WILL ONLY read TXT mode files and this is the area that is stuffing me up. I could email you the early alpha but it would only frustrate the hell out of you. it is nowhere near to beta yet.

harpo