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One minor side effect is that it will also appear in the shipyard with that name.

Thanks, I hoped it might be something as simple as that. Now to think of something suitably interesting for me...

edit: it seems that phpbb doesn't like braces in url strings, odd!

It's '_(The_Culture)' bit it doesn't seem to like, for some reason.

Lots of good ship names there... or you could think up your own.

El Viejo wrote:

It's '_(The_Culture)' bit it doesn't seem to like, for some reason.

Well, two reasons, actually. Namely '(' and ')'. Better known when linked to as '%28' and '%29', respectively.

Yeah, I saw Palmski's edit after I'd posted. The url won't link properly without them, though.

You can just replace the brackets with their URL-encoding reference, though:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sh ... Culture%29

and then put it inside url tags!

If you want to make your named ship unique, you can make a simple OXP to create an individually-named ship with the same stats and value as the original, make sure it doesn't appear for sale anywhere (set <key>chance</key> to <real>0</real> in the shipyard.plist), and give it to your player.

Thanks Disembodied, for both tips.

edit to add: re the second tip, as the Griff multidecal Cobra III is player only, I only had to adjust that ship’s shipyard.plist.

Interesting, never knew those characters would need encoding. Live and learn!

I'll give the oxp a bash, it'll be a nice little intro for me - I've been meaning to give something a try just to see how it worked but had no inspiration.

@El Viejo, I'll think of my own name, just thought I would link some of my favourite ones.

Palmski wrote:

@El Viejo, I'll think of my own name, just thought I would link some of my favourite ones.

The problem with Culture ship-names is, there are so many good ones that choosing just one is difficult.. I finally settled on one from Excession.

Just been having a slow browse through that list of Culture ship names... I'd forgotten how good most of them are. A great writer!

Guess the OXP's

Griff's new baby: Boa Class Cruiser:

This is Griff's best till now IMO. I like the engines on this model better. The older ships all have a sort of blue/red border around the engines. Not to say that those are bad. Of course not. Just I like this one the most till now

Good work!

pagroove wrote:

This is Griff's best till now IMO. I like the engines on this model better. The older ships all have a sort of blue/red border around the engines. Not to say that those are bad. Of course not. Just I like this one the most till now

Good work!

All the other ships have had protruding exhaust ports which get super heated by [insert techno-babble here] - there's nothing protruding on the Boa - however, there's no exhaust plumes on these shots so I suspect the engines weren't running and therefore the shader code for engine heating probably hasn't kicked in.

gorgeous!