What a good game !

But why can't we customize more ???

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First things first : I had plan yesterday night to try quickly the game, to asses its potential, 30 min max ... I ended up spending 2h30 !!! Great jobs, the strong points for me (not a complete list):
- easily readable map, all information available in largest zoom
- nice ships, beautifull battles
- tech tree vast but easy to grasp
- the "another turn" pathologie nicley adapted to real time strategie("ok, just 5 more minutes ...")

However, It would become, for me, the best game ever if :
- we could rename planets and even ships
- we could create battlegroups to use "hot keys" (Ctrl +1 then 1) so to create squadrons of different ships
- to allow the player to influence desygn and ships weaponry, so that playing the same race twice does not lead to the same expérience.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
hotgroups are possible and you do use ctrl+# to create them. and then use shift+# to add units to the group.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Dhontraphael,
I am glad you are having fun!

You will be able to rename ships and planets It's just temporarily disabled. (Orange button on center UI)

With capital ships you can choose what abilities you would like to specialize in, depending on your strategy for that game.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Yeah, battlegroups are possibly, as Dai said. Renaming planets and ships will be available in the release, but they haven't put it in yet. And the devs have already said no ship customization other than capship abilities (which by level 10 makes them all the same and looses the whole customization thing).
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
I think you should not beable to rename planets that you colonise

BUT

you should beable to rename CONQUERED PLANETS !

that wud pwn
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
heh... I would name all my conquered enemy plants very harassing names...
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
Thanx everyone

I am glad that we'll be able to rename planets and ships ... I look foward to a cap ship called Enterprise

Concerning the hotkeys : thank you for you help, found it and it is usefull indeed (especially to avoid all ships to crush into gauss defenses when there are defense hangard to bomb ) !

I think I'll live with only cap ship customizable ... as long as I can have fun giving names By the way, PSy I desagree, there is such a sweet peasure in finding a name for colonized planets, like those exploreurs who renamed the map during the 17th and 18th century ... plus I don't really like imposed names ... what if I want to call my capitol "Moronplace" ??
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
I look foward to a cap ship called Enterprise


Can't someone, somewhere, come up with the idea of "Originality"?

After all, I'm not naming my ships the Honor Harrington... er, hrm.... maaaaaybeeee....