Naming ships

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Hi, I have encountered some problems when I try to name a new (or updated) ship. For example; I create my ship, adding the pieces I want, then I save it. After that I name it and writes a short description of it. Its here the trouble starts, the game tells me that certain symbols are not allowed. Even though I named it something ordinary like Lance or Scimitar, the message error is still there. The only solution I have found is to name it using only two letters...like fe, or ge or something like that.
BTW, I use the latest beta patch.
Any ideas of what is causing this?

/Pan
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

What regional setting are you using? And are you using 1.3 beta 2a?

 

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I had that bug before with 1.2 but not yet with 1.3. Don't know what causes it but you can just quicksave and come back and it'll allow you to make a name.

I also found a naming bug.

Say the name of a ship design is Crusader. Then I name that ship Crusader when I make it. Once I upgrade the ship, it changes it's name to the new class I upgraded it to, so instead of the name "Crusader" it changes to the new class name (like Melborne, without the numbers after it).

A feature I hope Dark Avatar has is the ability to name your ships from the ship list instead of hunting down every ship and moving them to name them (very tedious).
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I checked my regional settings, and it was set to english. This was done to prevent a bug which came with the beta prior to this (graphical issues with planetslots). I tried to switch the reg. settings back to swedish again...and voilá! It worked.

Thanks for the help!

/Pan
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I actuayl ran into this problem and i think i know what it is. Hopefully Cari gets around to this.

BTW english settings and newest beta.

What it is is the TAB key. I fill out forms constantly online and i like to tab between the fields. So i try to in the naming/description field. The thing is the TAB inserts something that doesnt add space but somehow adds a charictor.

I dont know else to explain it. But when if i put anything for the name even exsisting names like Colony Ship (something i know that works) and put a tab at the end of the name it no longer works but it looks the same.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Hmm....Tab should be ignored by the entry field.  I'll have to look into that. 

Ah, I see.  Tab is a printable character, so it's missing the check for unprintable characters, so it's inserting the tab character into the string, even though it's not visible.  Fixing it now.