Frigate Traits and Other Players' Ship Names

[Lorakahn]

I couldn't find the answer in the forums, so, got two questions.

1. Frigate Traits: When I first buy a frigate I can see a picture of it on the left with various bonuses/deficiencies, and a list of skills/traits on the right (industrious crew, cozy quarters, whatever). But after I buy it, I can no longer see the frigate picture on the left when I view my ships in fleet management. Is this a bug or something? Would be nice to see my current bonus traits and frigate images.

2. Players' Ship names: I can't see any other player's ship name. Just "Player X's Starship". I feel like I used to be able to see their actual names. Anyone have any idea what I might have jacked up to cause this?

Yep, I use mods, but I've tried disabling them, reinstalling the game, changing resolution, launching in VR. No joy.

[Captain Xpendable]

I noticed that frigate traits disappear on the fleet management screen for any frigate that is out on a mission, any not on a mission do show up, at least for me.

And while I'm pretty sure that's a bug, what I'm not sure is a bug is the fact that we don't get detailed ship information in the mission screen. I would be nice to be able to see what traits the ships we're selecting have without having to back out to look at fleet management. That one I don't know if it's a bug or just poor design.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Frigates slowly raise up to S class and lose any deficiencies...and add some bonuses as you send them out on missions. Given the price, it makes sense to just get C class and let them grow up.

Essentially, you are just playing a text adventure when you use frigates so I would not go to deep in the weeds.

[swingline]

Originally posted by captxpendable:

I noticed that frigate traits disappear on the fleet management screen for any frigate that is out on a mission, any not on a mission do show up, at least for me.

Same for me. As long as the frigate is back from the mission and in formation around my freighter I can get a screen shot of it with it's bonus and fuel stats. If the frigate is out on a mission, however, then I have to wait for it to come back to see the details. I ended up putting the fuel characteristics in the frigate name - like T8 shipname for a trade ship with 8 fuel rating, etc.

edit: one other thought if frigate is on a mission - you might try the frigate control room and talk to the commander. It'll show the ship list there and I can't remember if it'll show a picture of the ship from that screen or not?

[Nettle]

Originally posted by Lorakahn:

I can't see any other player's ship name.

The only names you can see are those generated from the seed value because the name tag itself has been left blank. There are only two states to keep track of, so data transfer is minimal.

[Lorakahn]

Originally posted by swingline:

Originally posted by captxpendable:

I noticed that frigate traits disappear on the fleet management screen for any frigate that is out on a mission, any not on a mission do show up, at least for me.

Same for me. As long as the frigate is back from the mission and in formation around my freighter I can get a screen shot of it with it's bonus and fuel stats. If the frigate is out on a mission, however, then I have to wait for it to come back to see the details. I ended up putting the fuel characteristics in the frigate name - like T8 shipname for a trade ship with 8 fuel rating, etc.

edit: one other thought if frigate is on a mission - you might try the frigate control room and talk to the commander. It'll show the ship list there and I can't remember if it'll show a picture of the ship from that screen or not?

Yep! That was it. Thanks. Guess I should have paid more attention to which frigate was on mission and which wasn't. I can finally see them again. (=

Still no idea how to see other players' ship names though.

[Nettle]

Originally posted by Lorakahn:

Still no idea how to see other players' ship names though.

It's deceptively simple: changing the name of your ship hides it from everyone else.

[Captain Xpendable]

Originally posted by Unarmed Bandit:

Originally posted by Lorakahn:

Still no idea how to see other players' ship names though.

It's deceptively simple: changing the name of your ship hides it from everyone else.

Which is disappointing. Personally, I'd like for people to see the names I put on my ships. Not that I think they're particularly clever or anything, but it's currently the only way you can personalize ships and it would be nice if other people could see it.

[Nettle]

Originally posted by captxpendable:

...it would be nice if other people could see it.

Yes. Yes it would.

In the past I've noted the names of other players' freighters popping up on-screen when summoned... but I think that may have been unintended, being as I was inside the Space Anomaly at the time and you're not supposed to know what's going on outside while you're there!

[Lorakahn]

Ah, that's unfortunate. I suppose Sir Squidly will just have to be unknown. Thanks for the clarification!

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