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Offline Adseria (OP)

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Random Lettering
« on: October 02, 2018, 02:24:41 PM »
When I go into the task force window, on the list of ships, there are sometimes letters next to the names, like "DE Eagle (A)" or "EX Amazon (T). " What does it mean?

In case it's not clear, I mean the letters in the brackets (parentheses, for you Americans), not the hull classification symbols.
 

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Re: Random Lettering
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2018, 03:40:45 PM »
(T) --  Tanker
(A) --  Ammunition Collier

These are based on the checkboxes you set during class design (F5).  Aurora doesn't even check to see if a ship so flagged has any magazines or fuel tanks on board, because throwing an error about that would be pretty annoying while you were still monkeying with the design.
 

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Re: Random Lettering
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2018, 03:42:12 PM »
Ah, I see.  That's very useful, thanks.
 

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Re: Random Lettering
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2018, 08:47:10 AM »
Incidentally, I think you might be wrong about the (A) meaning it's a collier; I have 2 ships with the marking that don't even have magazines. I just checked and they aren't marked as colliers in the class design either.
 

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Re: Random Lettering
« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2018, 09:08:57 AM »
Incidentally, I think you might be wrong about the (A) meaning it's a collier; I have 2 ships with the marking that don't even have magazines. I just checked and they aren't marked as colliers in the class design either.

Active sensors are on?

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Re: Random Lettering
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2018, 09:20:24 AM »
That could be it. Still not sure about (T), though. It's not tanker, I just checked. And no, I checked if it could be thermal sensors, and it's not that either.
 

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Re: Random Lettering
« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2018, 10:47:56 AM »
A is Active Sensors On
T is Transponder On
 
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