[Dilmah G]

yoyoyo

So I was FREDing this mission, and changed a capship's callsign (The Phoenicia) to "Tactical", and so I have a send-message-list sexp's going on that reference the Phoenicia, but rather than going "Tactical: Roger that Alpha, the blockade is now in position." and whatever the frak else, it shows up as ": Roger that, etc and so on", and doesn't show the Phoenicia's callsign. Is tactical too many characters? I've also used a #(name here) message sender in another send-message-list, does that confuse it?

TL;DR: Callsigns set in FRED don't show up in mission.

Am I doing something wrong? Has this been reported before? I've used callsigns several times before and this hasn't happened.

[Trivial Psychic]

Try taking out the colon and see if that helps.  Replace it with a dash or something.

[Dilmah G]

The actual callsign is "Tactical". I put the colon in because of the way it appears in-game.

[Snail]

I don't think callsigns work on capital ships... At least they didn't in 3.6.10, might have changed since then.

[Dilmah G]

Oh, cock and balls! Back to the old fashioned way it is, then.

[Mobius]

In Warzone, I wanted Admiral Russik's Argo transport to show the Admiral's name as a callsign, and it didn't work.

[Goober5000]

It only works on fighters and bombers, by design.  That doesn't explain why it was blank, though.

[Mobius]

It wasn't blank. I could read the ship's name, only, as if no callsigns were used.

[Dilmah G]

It showed up blank when I tried.

[Mobius]

Oh, sorry. I thought Goober was refering to the Warzone problem.

[Goober5000]

It wasn't blank. I could read the ship's name, only, as if no callsigns were used.

This is what it's supposed to do.

It showed up blank when I tried.

This is not what it's supposed to do.  Mantis plz.

[Dilmah G]

Will do after work.

[Aardwolf]

If this were fixed, it would mean you could have messages which say they're sent from a specific "callsign", but pressing ALT+Y (target whoever sent the last message) would still target the ship associated with that callsign?

* Aardwolf strokes beard