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[Night Thastus]

Hey!

I just realized how limited 'Mech names are. They're around 10 characters max, and have almost no special characters (commas, periods, colons, etc).

Could we get this changed?

Thoughts?

Thanks!

[El Bandito]

20 characters max would be nice. I wish to be able to type Piston the Cheater, and Mr. Boney Pants Guy, in full.

[Darlith]

Yeah it would be nice to get more characters to have some more interesting names.

For example I wanted to call a mech "Double or Nothing" but all I can cram in is "2X or Nuttin"

Funny thing is, there are a bunch of named mechs from lore that you couldn't actually fit into our naming limits. Like "Lucky Thirteen".

Twelve characters just feels like too few, at least twenty would be nice for more flexibility in naming.

[Death Proof]

Yeah would be nice to have more room to use specific build names.

[Night Thastus]

El Bandito, on 19 November 2015 - 07:07 PM, said:

20 characters max would be nice. I wish to be able to type Piston the Cheater, and Mr. Boney Pants Guy, in full.

Heck. I'd like a nice solid 2^5 (32-bit compliant!) characters. I personally want to name my 2x Gauss Warhawk "Spear Of Justice".

I have a few others planned, but they're all longer than 12 characters. I really would love to see it extended.

[Scar Glamour]

Seconded. I still want to name my Stalker 5M Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath.

[Appogee]

Thirded.

[Taffer]

agreed

Don't really name my mechs because I can't seem to fit much in there.

[Vellron2005]

OP agreed.

+1

[Paigan]

Night Thastus, on 19 November 2015 - 05:39 PM, said:

Hey!

I just realized how limited 'Mech names are. They're around 10 characters max, and have almost no special characters (commas, periods, colons, etc).

Could we get this changed?

Thoughts?

Thanks!

Yes, this!

As a player, I can never understand why I can't even name a mech "X ERLL Y ERML Z LRM5".

As a software engineer, I KNOW that every language and DBMS remotely worthy of the term can handle dynamic length strings, so there is no technical reason for any limit (apart from 2^32 / 4GB ranges or such).
Yet so much software has artificial limits for strings (some even for passwords, which is especially weird).

At least set it to 20 or 50 or so.

[Widowmaker1981]

Yes please.

Things like 3xLPL 3xML XL340 wont fit, so i generally have to leave the engine size out, which is annoying.

[Night Thastus]

You know, I just realized why PGI likely doesn't want to set the cap higher. It's not that the strings would be too big, it's that their UI isn't dynamic. It can't handle strings beyond what we have now. If they gave us longer 'Mech names, anyone setting it to a longer name would likely find it bleeding off the screen, or onto other 'Mech portraits, etc, etc.

I know it'd be a bit of work, but if they could fix that I know many of us would appreciate it.

[Dirus Nigh]

An increase to 20 characters would be great. I am just a few short of naming one of my Urbanmechs Bad Motivator.

[Novakaine]

Yeah so I can name my King Crabs.
Bon'Quisha, Twerkisha and her twin Datwerkinisha.
It's good in da hood.

[ShinobiHunter]

I'd love to be able to use longer names I want to name my Catapult K2 Kubikiribōchō.

[Triordinant]

We're supposed to come up with an 8 letter and number code that tells us at a glance the 'mech's tonnage, max speed, primary and secondary weapons, engine type (XL or not), ECM and armor type. DHS and Endo is assumed.

[Alex Morgaine]

7 digits for your, 8 if you want to include endo.

Though why tonnage as the mechs are already separated by weight?
Anyway, using a hunch back 4p with all mediums, and an erppc cause why not
1: weight: s= scout m= medium h= heavy a= assault.
2: weapon range: s: less then 270m, m=271-500, l=500-1000, e= extreme, 1001+
3: secondary weapon range band. Same as 2
4: engine: s= standard, x=xl, l= light(if they ever bring in more equipment from a timeline jump)
5: max speed? Divide speed by 16.1, round down if .5 even. 275 engine would be 5, not 6
6:ecm/ams? N= no, a=ams, e=ecm b= both
7:armor: s= standard, f= ferro
8:hmmm. Let's add stock here: S= stock, C= customised, M=tryhard :3 (in case you have a serious version and a screw around one)
So the hatchback with a 275xl, erppc and medium lasers(med would be primary due to boating),ecm and obviously not stock and probably for S&G would be:
MMEX5BSC, M for last if you built off a meta build.
Stock 4P?
MM-SRNSS
At least something like that you could tell at a glance similar styled mechs. Could take the last line as primary weapon instead :L= lasers,p=ppc, b= ballistics, g= gauss, s= srm m=lrm
Then it'd be MMEX5BSL.
If your mech can hit 10+ speed(161 what's max speed limit atm?) stop breaking the game! Heh. Just put a 0 in the speed slot
Overly complex but basically works

[Sigmar Sich]

Yeah, sometimes limit is few symbols too short..
Can't fit title "Dominar" for my "Rygel XVI" GRF Sparky.

[MeiSooHaityu]

I agree, longer names would be nice. I think 20 characters would work well.

As it is now, sometimes you just need to get creative. Here is a training video on how to condense names...

[Night Thastus]

Sigmar Sich, on 25 November 2015 - 05:45 AM, said:

Yeah, sometimes limit is few symbols too short..
Can't fit title "Dominar" for my "Rygel XVI" GRF Sparky.

I get that reference.