Wall of Remembrance for our best Commanders o/

[Mark Yanning (OP)]

Maybe someone already pionted out. It's really a pity we don't have officers history after they died. It could be very nice from my point of view, to have an option we may flag in officer tab, to keep his/her history, profile, preserved after dead. A Wall of Remembrance for our best Commanders! 

[Gabethebaldandbold]

maybe have it be triggered by something, like death in battle, or a medal of some kind, so it doesn't fill up with the 500 nobodies who never got to do anything, and weren't really that good.

[smoelf]

Yes, that would be amazing. Actively flagging a commandor to keep their record would be the best solution, so we avoid the situation described by Gabethebaldandbold.

[bugkill]

I think a box labeled "Special Honors" in each commander's profile would be nice, so that players could easily select the commanders that they want memorialized. A new tab on the main screen named "Memorial" could allow players to look at the names, rank, branch, unit, and date of death of their specially selected commanders.   

[Ehndras]

I remember suggesting this years ago, but with Aurora C# it could happen!

Until this much-needed feature is implements, do you mind if I set up a thread?

Would *love* read player tributes to fallen commanders, and not just the AAR guys!

[Ehndras]

Went ahead and posted it. Cited this thread http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=11364.0

[Mark Yanning (OP)]

I didn't expect so much interest about this proposal, hopefully it will be implemented in future expansion of Aurora. I think it should be not so hard to add the feature. Last word to Steve, hopefully he'll take a look to this thread 

[Father Tim]

Keep thinking about how to teach Aurora to differentiate between the one officer we care about and the two hundred we don't.  So far, we've tried:

 -- Keep everybody.  (Fills up with spam VERY fast.)
 -- Keep everybody with a job at time of death/retirement.  (Fills up with spam amost as fast.)
 -- Keep everybody with a medal.  (Doesn't work for folks who are profligate with medals, such as long-service awards or branch ribbons.)
 -- Keep most recent dozen / score / hundred.  (Fighter 'pilots' clog this list.  Whatever number is good enough for you is not enough for somebody else with a bigger parasite fleet.)
 -- Keep everyone with a promotion score over X.  (Good, but almost by definition will ignore your version of Lt. Cmdr. Ernest E. Evans {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Johnston_(DD-557)}, and anyone else who 'dies gloriously for the good of the empire'.)
 -- Keep everyone for a year, then dump in order.  (Pretty good approach, but massive battles still fill the list fast and large empires will still have a lot of spam.)
 -- Keep everyone for 31 (or fewer) days, then dump in order.  (Better, but still subject to battle spam and you need to make the 'keep' decision within one increment.)

[Migi]

Keep thinking about how to teach Aurora to differentiate between the one officer we care about and the two hundred we don't.  So far, we've tried:

 -- Keep everybody.  (Fills up with spam VERY fast.)
 -- Keep everybody with a job at time of death/retirement.  (Fills up with spam amost as fast.)
 -- Keep everybody with a medal.  (Doesn't work for folks who are profligate with medals, such as long-service awards or branch ribbons.)
 -- Keep most recent dozen / score / hundred.  (Fighter 'pilots' clog this list.  Whatever number is good enough for you is not enough for somebody else with a bigger parasite fleet.)
 -- Keep everyone with a promotion score over X.  (Good, but almost by definition will ignore your version of Lt. Cmdr. Ernest E. Evans {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Johnston_(DD-557)}, and anyone else who 'dies gloriously for the good of the empire'.)
 -- Keep everyone for a year, then dump in order.  (Pretty good approach, but massive battles still fill the list fast and large empires will still have a lot of spam.)
 -- Keep everyone for 31 (or fewer) days, then dump in order.  (Better, but still subject to battle spam and you need to make the 'keep' decision within one increment.)

Surely the thing to do would be to keep 2 lists, the first is everyone who died in the past year, the second is people who are retained indefinitely.
You use the first list to find someone who died and copy them to the 2nd list where they get immortalised in story/song/poem/opera/wikipedia-entry-which-meets-notability-guidelines.

[Mark Yanning (OP)]

What if we simply put a flag button on officer page, to chose if he/her will go on memorial page? In this way we have completely control on it. We'll avoid pages full of names. Then if a player doesn't care, he can just ignore the function. Exactly how now is with "important role player character". In addition, we may assign to memory page, as default, only highest officers. The ones who covered the highest ranks of every field