naming the ship

[Blinzler]

It's pretty much just for making you feel warm and fuzzy inside and has no effect on gameplay itself, but being able to name your ship would be a nice touch.
I, for example, like to name my ship "slippery pig" ever since reading the hilarious manual story from "Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender".
I remember laughing my ass off when reading it...ahh, fond memories.

[goat not sheep]

Well...mod your own ship, and name the ship: Slippery Pig. Simple.

[evilbob]

use the player name in the top left corner as your ship name

[Yugi]

I believe we should be able to name our ships without the use of mods.

[dvlenk6]

Feeling 'warm and fuzzy inside' is important.
This would give an additional 'role play' feel to the game.

[goat not sheep]

Yes. Make it additional fees to change the names.

[Blitz]

I really don't see the point of that in this game. That kinda thing would be fun in a game with Dialogue or news or something. It really is pointless if the name is never going to be used.

[FAD]

This game is still a WIP, so having an option to name your ship may become useful in later versions should there be more RPG added in. But at any rate, there's no harm in being able to give your ship a name at present. Personalizing your own ship shouldn't be looked down upon. Either you'll give your ship a name or you won't. To each their own.
I, personally, wouldn't mind being able to name my ship once I start a new game so having that option would indeed be nice.

[Blitz]

This game is still a WIP, so having an option to name your ship may become useful in later versions should there be more RPG added in. But at any rate, there's no harm in being able to give your ship a name at present. Personalizing your own ship shouldn't be looked down upon. Either you'll give your ship a name or you won't. To each their own.
I, personally, wouldn't mind being able to name my ship once I start a new game so having that option would indeed be nice.

I wasn't against it. I actually like that kinda thing in games with more RPG element. You are right though. It wouldn't do any harm and it should be easy to implement.

[FAD]

I think George had already mentioned wanting to add more SL and RPG elements into the game in upcoming versions. I'm really looking forward to that and having ideas such as naming your ship helps a lot in that field.

[Blinzler]

Well, main reason I suggested it was that it *personalizes* the game a little, get the Player to identify himself just a little more with his Alter Ego on screen.
If you use the name as a global variable you'd be able to use it later on on some text output, maybe you hear a rumour somewhere in a station and come to realize - hey that's about me.

Anyways - I've been just playing and one thing I would find very useful is this:
When you have targeting installed, would it be possible to light the target in a different dot-color on the minimap? I know there's the little guide arrow when display is enhanced showing the general direction of the target, but I'd still find the minimap more useful since I'm orienting myself after it quite a lot.
Sometimes I *tab* through enemies from far off and this way one could get a general idea where which enemy ship is.

[goat not sheep]

Maybe a little arrow on the minimap...

[Fossaman]

Rename your ship to cancel your criminal status.

Places like the black market and military would still know who you were, because of the ID chips, so you wouldn't lose all your rank.

[Czert]

Rename your ship to cancel your criminal status.

Hmm, I always think criminal status is linked to your persone (ID) and not ship. But having sonething to counterfieter who chnage your ID(criminal status) will be very interesing (of course, with chance of osing previous ranks, depend on skill of counterfeiter, and idea for nev item- *place rank here* ID chip, illegal, need counterfeiter to use).

[goat not sheep]

Billy is the top most wanted criminal! But your name was..bob? What are ya, billy's brother? We need to use you for bait...

LOL! But the counterfeiting part... that should be true. There has to be some way to "unclear" you... so pay a lot of money to change your name!