Anyway to quickly recognize ship type?

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I've been playing this game for a little while and one thing that keeps annoying me is I can't figure out if there's an easy way to quickly tell what type of ships the enemy is sending at me.

I mean I can get the name of the ship (like "Pirate Cutthroat") pretty easily but what I want to know is what type of ship it is.  Like is it a Light Frigate, a Scout Frigate, an Assault Frigate, or a Siege Frigate?  Is there some other quick way of telling this information short of memorizing the info on of every ship in the game???

Thanks

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

you'll porbably figure out how to recognize ship purpose by appearance(LF, LRM, carrier, etc.) eventually you will start remembering the names of each of these depending on which races' it is. capital ships esp. (like marza, halcyon, revelation, etc...)

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Unfortunalty, crashmatusow is correct, there's no shortcut to learning the ship types. Pirates and militas use TEC ships (okay, pirates don't, but they look pretty similar, so you can learn from that.) Afterwards, all you can do is learn your ships fully in one race, and then play several games as the other races, getting all of the ships and research, so that when you start playing huge games against multitple AIs or mulitplayer, you can quickly decide if a hostile fleet of 30 Diciples against your fleet of 20 Enforcers needs extra backup (hopefuly not ;) ) or if a fleet of 15 Ogrov cruisers are a threat to your undefended Argovev star base (hell yes)

Just play, learn, and expect to take a few beatings :D

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Hmm, is there any mod's that perhaps does what I'm talking about?  Something like that wouldn't be considered cheating would it?

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

How do you mean? A mod that alters the tooltip to say what the ship does? If that's the case, I doubt there's one around, it'd be more effort than it's worth to make one, simply because it's not that hard to learn the different ships.