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Rename fleets directly

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8 years ago
Jan 18, 2017, 1:13:30 PM

One action that I find myself doing in every game is renaming fleets. Especially when I have several fleets in the same system I'd like to assign them individual names quickly, so that later I don't have to browse through fleets to find out what fleet is what.


E.g. imagine a system where I have the following fleets:

1. Colony ship + defence ships for it, sitting there and waiting to move out.

2. A fleet of leechers, that is hiding from opponent for a cople of turns

3. A system guarding fleet

4. A cheap fleet that is waiting to accumulate manpower to go to attack

5. Two fleets that are waiting for repair

6. Arc

7. Scouts waiting for probes to replenish


I'd like to, say, doubleclick their names or hotkey+click, to quickly remane rename them into something like

Colony

Abductors

Defence - Auriga

Assault 3

Battleforce - rockets

Battleforce - lazers

Arc - Auriga

Probemaster


, so that next turn when I switch through the systems I can quicky understand what I see.


Now I can do it by going to a list of fleets, but it's not straightforward - this is an extra menu, and fleets are hard to find in the common list, especially late game when I have lots of them. It would be good to be able to do it from the main screen. 

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8 years ago
Jul 20, 2017, 6:18:47 PM

Yes, I use fleetnames the same way. The trouble I have with the current way of renaming is that I have to remember two things before I open the Military Status screen.


  1. The original fleet name (or perhaps the fleet's current star system name).
  2. The new fleet name, or in other words the name of the star system I want to attack or guard.

Both default star system and fleet names are in general not easy to remember (and I can't rename star systems until I conquer them...)


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8 years ago
Jul 20, 2017, 6:58:36 PM

Currently when renaming a fleet the entire screen is cleared and only a textbox with some buttons are shown. It would be help if the textbox is displayed in the galaxy view, and that scrolling is stil possible so that the star system names can be read.

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8 years ago
Jul 21, 2017, 9:24:22 AM

Yes I agree, simplifying renaming would be handy. The names assigned by the game are nice for the atmosphere and the RP but not too adapted to strategic action and military planning.

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