bakara
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Post by bakara on Aug 4, 2019 7:01:23 GMT -6
Was digging through the namelist for British ships to see where it starts roughly (year) when I noticed that "Dreadnought" seems to be missing. Seems kind of weird given.. You know.. A certain ships importance that happened to bear that name? I Assume there is a reason for it but got me wondering.
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Post by cabalamat on Aug 5, 2019 9:52:57 GMT -6
Maybe it's deliberate so the British player can give that name to their first BB/BC.
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bakara
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Post by bakara on Aug 5, 2019 15:04:24 GMT -6
Probably, have trouble believing they actually forgot about it. But there is also the fact that all the other nations have the name of their first dreadnought (or at least the ones I can remember the names of those dreadnoughts).
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Post by brucesim2003 on Aug 6, 2019 7:58:58 GMT -6
Probably, have trouble believing they actually forgot about it. But there is also the fact that all the other nations have the name of their first dreadnought (or at least the ones I can remember the names of those dreadnoughts). The difference is, the other '1st's' didn't have the same impact as Dreadnought had. |
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Post by bcoopactual on Aug 6, 2019 19:19:43 GMT -6
They didn't forget about it but because of the semi-random nature of the name assigning system added to the fact that you don't know how many ships the AI is going to build before starting its first dreadnought the odds are good that the name Dreadnought (if it was on the list) isn't going to be the first actual dreadnought or even used on a dreadnought at all. Since the game uses dreadnought as a type (as seen in the ship picture screen), I wouldn't say it might be confusing because the player would realise what was going on but it wouldn't look "right".
So, and I'm assuming here, I don't know that this has been confirmed by the developers, they just left that particular name off of the list. UK players can always custom name their ship Dreadnought if they want to. I will actually go and modify the first UK AI dreadnought class name to one has the same feel to it (So I might change it to Dreadnought, Albion or Monarch instead of Collingwood or Barfleur for example because I can't picture a historian saying "and the American battleline would soon entirely consist of collingwoods..." It just doesn't roll off of the tongue the way dreadnoughts does.)
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