Post by nobody on Apr 24, 2022 13:00:18 GMT -6
Until last week I played a game as 1900 Germany with the second largest fleet size and kind of ran out of names in the 20s. I first noticed, that BCs got CA names, CAs CL names and CLs got corvette/AMC names. Very confusing.
Anyway, the game wanted to name a ship "Koblentz" which seemed like an obvious typo, but I wasn't sure and went searching if it maybe was an old way of writing it. I was quite surprised that it is instead the name of a very small place near the Baltic sea polish border. That aside it probably is a typo that should be fixed. That being said, before 1926 the name of the city was "Coblenz", not today's "Koblenz".
Speaking of names that only came into use after the games timeframe, the city name "Mönchengladbach" didn't exist before 1960. In 1888 the city got the name "München-Gladbach" usually shorted to "M.Gladbach". From 1929 to 1933 the name was "Gladbach-Rheydt". After that the name was "München Gladbach", again shorted to "M.Gladbach". By the end of 1950 the meaning was changed to "Mönchen Gladbach", keeping the short version until today's variant was created.
Long story short: I suggest changing it to "M.Gladbach", which would be correct for most of the games timeframe. It also fits much better in the way to small battle-log.
I also thought, that "Schleswig" and "Holstein" should be two names, but surprisingly "Schleswig-Holstein" existed as such since 1867.
P.S.:
What is the difference between the *shipnames.dat and *shipnames20.dat? Are they used for the different startdates or does the game switch between them on certain occasions?