Request: Ability to Name Fleets

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Fantastic game so far, I have posted my initial impressions on other forums but so far I have no regrets for making this a Day 1 purchase and am glad to finally play a great 4x space game without wincing at what they have done (MOO3, SE5, etc.)

Allowing players to rename capital ships and planets is great and certainly adds to the immersion factor. However, I would also like to see us have the ability to name fleets (and please forgive me if you can do this already, but I tried using the naming button when the fleet was selected and nothing would work).

Reasons:
(1) Management Aid - Do to the scope of the game, the use of fleets is encouraged (over control groups) since the player's AI will utilize "intelligent" behavior to reduce micro-management. However, aside from clicking them on the UI tree or assigning the leaders a CTRL + #, there is no way to quickly figure out where each one is/doing. Instead of trying to memorize which multi-color fleet icon is doing what and where, a short name of "SE Sector Def" would tell me the general location and purpose of each fleet along with the already present ability of quickly checking the status of the ships in the UI tree.

(2) Immersion Factor - increases by allowing us to input our favorite nomenclature.

Implementation:
The UI for naming is already present and the name could be displayed similar to how planet names are displayed next to them in the UI tree on the left side.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Seconded, this would be a great addition!

In GalCiv2, you can have custom names for everything, including your own fleets (and enemy fleets, but that doesn't apply to SoaSE).
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
After more gameplay, I am more convinced then ever that we need some way to differentiate between fleets. If nothing else, perhaps the fleet icons could have different accent colors or something. But unless you expand the fleets and they have different composition of ships, they are very difficult to tell apart on UI tree.
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Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
Maybe a difference based on experience. The more Experienced get some sort of rank thing. This could also be used for single ships. This in turn allows you to select the best and most experienced ships to form a mighty battlegroup, this ofcourse would only work if these ships have some sort of experience bonus attached to it (if they don't have so already).
So what I would like to see is
* A fleet rank (based on experience with a bonus)
* A single ship rank (based on experience with a bonus)
* And ofcourse some sort of naming or like a custom sign kind of thing.

This would add a bit more depth without being too complex.
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
Yep. Naming of fleets would be great. Also, I'd like if a fleet would automatically be formed if you assigned a number of ships to a group. I mean, if you ctrl+1 to create a group of ships it would automatically become a fleet and pinned to your empire tree.
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
I mean, if you ctrl+1 to create a group of ships it would automatically become a fleet and pinned to your empire tree.
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I'd rather not, since I like to group ships within a fleet into control groups :P
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

I mean, if you ctrl+1 to create a group of ships it would automatically become a fleet and pinned to your empire tree.


I'd rather not, since I like to group ships within a fleet into control groups
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Ah... That's right. You... you destroyer of my argument!
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
Great idea - I love the concept of the fleet as a kind of meta-ship and naming them would make them easier to use.