Nostromo= Terraformer

My terraformers are usually LV-426.

Quote from: Borealis4x on October 18, 2021, 12:23:19 PM

Quote from: prophetical on October 18, 2021, 08:31:48 AM

Quote from: Borealis4x on October 17, 2021, 08:10:24 PM

I wish there was an option where the hull designation was part of the name somewhere so you could know what it was on the fly.

There is. In the misc tab in ship design you can add a prefix or suffix to the name of the ship. So you can add BB xxxx and it will appear as part of the name.

I know about that, but thats where USS/HMS/UNS is supposed to go. I'd like it more if you could see the ships hull designation in parentheses before the ships name.

That's what i use the Suffix for, DD-01 etc. That way you can give your ships a hull number & designation.

But you have to change the number manually for each ship right? Or does it change the number automatically based on how many ships of the class are constructed?

So make your prefix be "(BB) USS"

I wish there was an option where the hull designation was part of the name somewhere so you could know what it was on the fly.

There is. In the misc tab in ship design you can add a prefix or suffix to the name of the ship. So you can add BB xxxx and it will appear as part of the name.

I have some consistent class names that I use pretty much every game.

The Mule class is always my basic freighters
Prospectors = Geosurvey ship
Surveyor= Survey ship
Hope= Colony ship
Nostromo= Terraformer

Beyond that I usually use a one or two standard designations. Class, class name and either a Mark (Mk) number or Mod designation. So something like;
CA Revenge Mod A, or CA Revenge I

The Mark or Mod numbers generally coincide with engine tech. If I make a sub class it would show up as CA Revenge IIc or CA Revenge Mod C1

I use a alphanumeric system.  In my last game, I had a class name of S-235A (Asimov).  The break down in my system is as follows:

<Function> <Engine Tech Level> <Last two digits of design year> <Modification>

Function

X = Small Combat Craft (Any Combat Craft under 1000tons)
P = Patrol
E = Escort
D = Destroyer
C = Cruiser
B = Capital
V = Carrier
A = Auxiliary
R = Sensor/Intelligence/Scout
S = Survey/Exploration
J = Jump Ship/Tender
M = Mining
T = Transport
F = Freighter/Cargo

Engine Tech Level

0 = Conventional, 1= Nuclear Thermal, 2 = Nuclear Pulse, Etc.

Year

This is the last two of the design year.  If the ship was designed in 2154, then I would use 54.  To avoid a situation where I have a ship designed in 2198 have a higher number than a ship designed 2215, I'll add a 1 to make it a three digit number - in this case the 2215 ship would be 115 designation)

Modification

Every new design gets an A automatically.  Further modifications on the hull will get a B, C, D.  If I'm updating the engines of a particular ship, I'll reset the modification to A and change engine tech level.

Ship Class Name

The name of the first ship in the class will be the name of the class.

I usually use numbers as class names, following an internal code. One such example is:
Project 4006a-class Missile Cruiser.
The first number represents the ship type, with 1 being FACs, 2 being Frigates, 3 is for Destroyers, 4 is Light cruisers and so on. The ship type represents more a size-range instead of a role, with a survey frigate receiving the "2" designation, despite not being a combatant.
The second number is always a 0, functioning basically as a separator.
The third and fourth numbers are representative of which iteration this design represents, the example given being the 6th Light Cruiser design since the start of the game. It does not represents the generation of the ship (a new generation happens every time there is a new engine). In this case, the 4006a CGs are in the same generation (Magneto-Plasma) of the 4005 Jump Cruisers.
The letter represents refits of the class, following alphabetical order, so the "a" is the first refit of this particular class.