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| Micha | 
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| Tomasoid wrote on Mon, 13 February 2006 16:27 |
I wonder who uses what markings to designate engine type used on the ship.
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I don't see many markings referring to engines ... What I have seen is names that include more info than just the engine, like a AD8-wolverine-jihad CC called "Cruiser AD8JW" ...
As for myself I use names that go with the race name, my Trash race uses "Dumpsters" as large freighters, my Deck of Cards uses "Eight of Hearts" (Hearts is the transport category, Clubs are warships, Clubs are utility ships like minelayers, Diamonds are reserved for my starbases), my Alpha Bits LF is "l" (the letter "l", not the Roman number, and the next version would be "ll" etc) ... 
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I'm currenlty playing a game where I need both ram scoop and non-ram-scoop engines. I found marking of engine in ship name like "Large Freighter 8" and "Large Freighter 9" would not be very clear because do not know whether there is a ram scoop 9 engine or not on that ship, and "ram-scoop engine warp 9" is a bit confusing because both TGFS and TGSS may perfectly fly on warp 9. "TGMS" and alike is not very clear and requires more time to catch it up what engine is exactly there.
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Hmm ... has been a looong time since played a race with ramscoops ... Usual my first LF is one with the FM and fuel pod, the next is a warp10 capable version and that will last until end game. I'm certainly _not_ building a new LF design every time there is a better engine available. With ramscoops I'd probably use the FM for a long time, maybe switch to the ramscoop around prop9? ... not sure (that was one of the reason for my long time ago poll: Ramscoops, which one to use?), maybe FM upto the prop16 warp10 ram ...
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Is it good idea to mark ship engines in the name using special characters?
For example:
Oo - Settlers delight
-o - QJ5
-< - mizer
-| - Long hump 6
-|| - DLL7
-||| - AD8
-3 - TGD 9
~3 - I10
=3 - TS10
*|< - Radiating HRS
-o< - Sub GFS
-|< - Trans GFS
-||< - TGSS
-|||< - TGMS
=< - Galaxy Scoop
< - ram scoop, | - "circle" around the engine, "~" - smarter than "-", "=" - even more smarter, * - radiation sign
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Very neat.  You could use such coding but if it makes much sense to do so ...
I did use a race once that had all his ships named like more or less like that ... I think [.xxx.] or so was my main line missile DN ...
mch
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Engines markings in ship name
By: Tomasoid on Mon, 13 February 2006 10:27 |
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Re: Engines markings in ship name
By: Micha on Mon, 13 February 2006 10:56 |
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Re: Engines markings in ship name
By: Tomasoid on Mon, 13 February 2006 11:05 |
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Re: Engines markings in ship name
By: Kotk on Mon, 13 February 2006 13:29 |
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Re: Engines markings in ship name
By: Tomasoid on Mon, 13 February 2006 14:12 |
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By: Micha on Mon, 13 February 2006 17:13 |
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