Whiney Modding Question

Sorry.

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Alright, I know this is me just being a whiney little unknowledgable idiot and trying desperately to clutch all and any straws I can lay my hands on, but I'm going to ask again and display my ignorance again, only to get beaten back in to the dirt.

 

Is there absolutely no way to change the game to allow renaming of all ships and/or structures? Surely there is just a little passage in the capital ships files that can be copied and pasted to stop that little renaming button being so greyed out and smug? Or is it more complicated than that, buried inside some impregnable file that we can't touch?

Thanks a lot again.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

No one lied to you before. Its absolutely impossible to allow the renaming of frigates, planetary structures, or anything else that doesn't have an individual name. Your only option is to make them all capialships, starbases or something else which does have a name. In theory you could roughly translate most things in the game to something like this, but the overall effect would be some radical game changes (maw would be broken, unlimited starbases per gravity well etc.), and would be a substantial task for even a somewhat experienced modder.

Now for the devs they might be able to just copy some code and make it work, but we do not have access to anything related to custom names save being able to define the default names themselves.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Alright, well thanks for clearing that up. I just didn't get a description of WHY it was impossible last time, so cheers for clearing it up. Ah well, it would have just been a nice added touch.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

That's essentially what I said here.

Quoting Ryat, reply 7

Quoting Spaghetti7, reply 6Has anyone created a mod to enable the renaming of ALL ships and possibly even structures? If not, does anyone know how one could go about doing it?

Hardcoded.

End of Ryat's quote

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top


Alright, I know this is me just being a whiney little unknowledgable idiot and trying desperately to clutch all and any straws I can lay my hands on, but I'm going to ask again and display my ignorance again, only to get beaten back in to the dirt.

 

Is there absolutely no way to change the game to allow renaming of all ships and/or structures? Surely there is just a little passage in the capital ships files that can be copied and pasted to stop that little renaming button being so greyed out and smug? Or is it more complicated than that, buried inside some impregnable file that we can't touch?

Thanks a lot again.

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Why would you want to rename frigates?  They're disposable ships that wouldn't be worth the time to do that.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting XATHOS, reply 5
Why would you want to rename frigates?  They're disposable ships that wouldn't be worth the time to do that.
End of XATHOS's quote

I think he just wants them to have names, rather than being able to rename them. Because atm they don't even have a fixed, unchangeable, name.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Ship crews give their ships names even if said ship isn't going to be around long.  It's just one of those things that could give more immersion that wasn't done.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting SemazRalan, reply 7
Ship crews give their ships names even if said ship isn't going to be around long.  It's just one of those things that could give more immersion that wasn't done.
End of SemazRalan's quote

If they did, we'd have complaints of "Why are there 10 TDN Ark Royals in my multi hundred ship fleet?". Can't make everyone happy.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

Just answer back "'cause you built a multi-hundred ship and think we have no lives and the time to think up that many names for you" :p