Name a few

posted on June 20th, 2011, 7:53 pm

HORAY!!!!!

That wasy there won't be a USS Voyager NCC 74656 on all the intreps, very cool, hats off to you devs

posted on June 20th, 2011, 8:02 pm

Wait, another question, what about name suffixes? the -A -B -C, that sort of thing, how will that be implemented, if at all?

posted on June 20th, 2011, 9:09 pm

Wait, another question, what about name suffixes? the -A -B -C, that sort of thing, how will that be implemented, if at all?

the registries are probably dynamic texture-overlays that use a font to create the letters used in the .odf.

So if the .odf says "...stuff-A" the textures will use the font to create just that combination of letters.

posted on June 21st, 2011, 4:20 am

Thats obviously from TAS.

Hate to break it to you, but TAS is considered canonical stuff. Just... occasionally silly canonical stuff. In funny colors.

(p.s. what the hell kind of name is "Trafelga"?!)

posted on June 21st, 2011, 7:04 am

The way that was worded, I can't tell if it's a 'not canon' comment or a 'that's not concept art' correction comment...

Trafelga is one of the more normal names in fiction and simiar to an existing name.

[Redshirt]

posted on June 21st, 2011, 7:16 am

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"Trafelga" sounds like someone tried to say "Trafalgar" while choking on a peanut.

I'm just fine with the current name selection; it's not easy coming up with ~2000 names (there are 1,952 Federation starship names currently in use), and the FO team has done well to avoid falling to the level of... "Trafelga".

Oh, and the Ambassador-class USS Sugarloaf, the ship that almost certainly provoked the first "FO-names-are-silly" comment, shares its name with two towns and a ton of mountains, including a prominent peak in Rio De Janeiro and a hill on Okinawa that was the site of a battle during WWII.

The United States Navy has named ships stranger things, so just stop complaining. Just... stop, please. At least do a cursory google search. It really isn't that hard.

/surly

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I've decided to split off my Fed excel sheet and post it here for ease of reference. This workbook contains all current ship names.

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posted on June 21st, 2011, 7:21 am

Hate to break it to you, but TAS is considered canonical stuff. Just... occasionally silly canonical stuff. In funny colors.

(p.s. what the hell kind of name is "Trafelga"?!)

It's Trafalgar actually.  Sorry, my bad.  So English teacher, whats next???? 

posted on June 21st, 2011, 7:22 am

Oh, and the Ambassador-class USS Sugarloaf, the ship that almost certainly provoked the first "FO-names-are-silly" comment, shares its name with two towns and a ton of mountains, including a prominent peak in Rio De Janeiro and a hill on Okinawa that was the site of a battle during WWII.

The United States Navy has named ships stranger things, so just stop complaining. Just... stop, please. At least do a cursory google search. It really isn't that hard.

The Sugarbeat is what promted the 'comical names' comment (this one, at least), and the poster wasn't complaining about the names existing, only that a capital ship like the Sovereign has a funny name instead of a smaller support ship.

Sugarbeat likewise has a real-life meaning, namely a band apparently. I can't tell what's funnier; the name or the fact that a Sovereign is named after a band.

posted on June 21st, 2011, 7:23 am

There is no Sugarbeat, only Sugarloaf. Spreadsheet is helpful with this.

posted on June 21st, 2011, 7:27 am

Sugerloaf is an Ambassador name, not a Sovereign name. I don't know if the Sovereign really has that name since mine are all replaced, but the poster claimed to have seen a Sovereign called Sugerbeat.

posted on June 21st, 2011, 6:38 pm

...a 'that's not concept art' correction comment...

This.

the registries are probably dynamic texture-overlays that use a font to create the letters used in the .odf.

So if the .odf says "...stuff-A" the textures will use the font to create just that combination of letters.

Unless they found a way to actually do that then yes but thats not how it works in Legacy. The reg textures are all premade and if these ones dont come with -A and so on then you would have to add them yourself.

posted on June 21st, 2011, 9:41 pm

Sugerloaf is an Ambassador name, not a Sovereign name. I don't know if the Sovereign really has that name since mine are all replaced, but the poster claimed to have seen a Sovereign called Sugerbeat.

Correct, but missing the point entirely. The Sugarbeat simply does not exist. The only name involving the distinctive "Sugar" is the Sugarloaf.

posted on June 21st, 2011, 9:43 pm

Not missing the point at all, as that name is what the first comment was about. Whether it exists or not doesn't change that the poster claimed to see a Sovereign called it, not an Ambassador class called Sugerloaf.

posted on June 21st, 2011, 10:01 pm

No, you're missing the point entirely; the lack of any similar name strongly implies the poster misremembered; something we all do more often than we'd like to admit. You're just being pedantic. You're even out-doing my initial belligerent reply, which is no small feat.

[Tyler]

posted on June 21st, 2011, 10:18 pm

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I'm not, you're missing the entire topic by redirecting it to something completely unrelated to the original comment, which I already said was about which ships have funny names. Not that I helped much...

While that name likely is a mistake, it's also the name used. You just started an argument to correct a probably mistaken memory. Again, not that I helped much...