[Fury]

Why you think [V] named it as "Fred".

[Hippo]

Or, you could do it all without touching notepad... Make it a multiplayer mission, mae the ship a player ship in the Ships Editor, and remove the player ship from A1, then make it single again... *cough* its in the ahtw demo *cough see for yourself *cough*

[diamondgeezer]

What's actually needed is allowing the plyaer to fly outside of Alpha, Beta and Gamma. Is this another 'we don't understand the inteface code' job?

[kasperl]

IIRC, yeah.

[Goober5000]

Originally posted by Hippo
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That's exactly what karajorma just described, except doing it via FRED.  I think doing it in Notepad is more straightforward.

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
What's actually needed is allowing the plyaer to fly outside of Alpha, Beta and Gamma. Is this another 'we don't understand the inteface code' job?

I understand the interface code, but it's as annoying as anything and it's a lot of work.

But that isn't the primary reason for allowing the player outside of Alpha, Beta, or Gamma.  The main reason is because those wings are hard-coded into the code in many, many places, and it's not quite clear how we could allow other names.

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Black Wolf

Why skip them? Just click OK a few times and you're fine. ....

That is what I meant.
By the way, how are Beta and Epsilon wings in the source code?

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by Goober5000
But that isn't the primary reason for allowing the player outside of Alpha, Beta, or Gamma.  The main reason is because those wings are hard-coded into the code in many, many places, and it's not quite clear how we could allow other names.

That's a bugger

What about the 'masking' approach Stryke (I think) suggested, then? So that, for example, 'Alpha' would read, say, 'Delta' to the player but the game would still treat it as Alpha?

[Goober5000]

It would be hard to keep track of both names at the same time, because invariably you'd have a bug where either you displayed Alpha or you told the game Delta when you were supposed to do the opposite, either by mistake or omission.  It'd be easier to just allow any name.

We might take a look at this after the code freeze.  This and the expandable IFF system are coded along the same lines (and similar in implementation to the species system).