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Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath is probably the omega of ship names - and somewhat fitting for his final Culture novel.

cim wrote:

I'm currently tweaking the standard HUD layouts very slightly for 1.79 to fit some extra dials in....

Extra dials?

Diziet Sma wrote:

Or, to use its' full name [...]

For reference, that's definitely too long to use in Oolite.

Smivs wrote:

Extra dials?

One for primable equipment, and one to name beacons and waypoints (the latter not yet implemented) on the compass.

cim wrote:

Diziet Sma wrote:

Or, to use its' full name [...]

For reference, that's definitely too long to use in Oolite.

I suspected as much!

cim wrote:

For reference, that's definitely too long to use in Oolite.

Now that's just bonkers!

cim wrote:

Smivs wrote:

Extra dials?

One for primable equipment, and one to name beacons and waypoints (the latter not yet implemented) on the compass.

Ah, yes. Very useful, and a jolly good idea.

cim wrote:

One for primable equipment, and one to name beacons and waypoints (the latter not yet implemented) on the compass.

Excellent... but I am going to need a revamped Fighter Hud. <sobs>

Perhaps a shortName is in order…

JensAyton wrote:

Perhaps a shortName is in order…

Perhaps the ships need nicknames as well, like us.
I mean, I don't expect you all to refer to me as "His exalted and most high majesty, uberpumpkinfieldenfuhrer Smivs the humungous, son of Ronald the magnificent, Grand Ambassador to the Ooniverse for the noble and gracious people of Cucurbita" do I? Smivs is fine.

JensAyton wrote:

Perhaps a shortName is in order…

As in Refreshingly Unconcerned With the Vulgar Exigencies of Veracity better known as Fred?

cim wrote:

Diziet Sma wrote:

Or, to use its' full name [...]

For reference, that's definitely too long to use in Oolite.

It's...It's, some kind of low tech attack on ship's visual systems. Like a buffer overrun...it must be...it makes no sense otherwise!

Cody wrote:

Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath is probably the omega of ship names - and somewhat fitting for his final Culture novel.

I can't help thinking that by the time someone finished hailing that ship, whatever conflict you were in would be well and truly over - or you'd be dead!

It'd be rather like talking to this guy.

Ranthe wrote:

I can't help thinking that by the time someone finished hailing that ship, whatever conflict you were in would be well and truly over - or you'd be dead!

Hence the more usual method of referring to the ship simply as the Mistake Not...

Diziet Sma wrote:

Ranthe wrote:

I can't help thinking that by the time someone finished hailing that ship, whatever conflict you were in would be well and truly over - or you'd be dead!

Hence the more usual method of referring to the ship simply as the Mistake Not...

Even after saying "Mistake Not..." the conflict would be over.

Heck.. it would have been over before the signal from your brain got to your mouth..

Muchas gracias to the Devs for Oolite 1.77.1 (especially its SSE2-optimised variant).