#60 Ship Class Hinting

[Random Chaos]

Ship class hinting might be a useful addition to ship designs. This information would be visible to only to the owner and would allow them to classify their ship design based on the ship role. It would be selected manually during ship design.

Proposed roles to provide in a client display (stored as text so it will be easy to add more):

• General
• Anti-Small
• Anti-Medium
• Anti-Large
• Bomber
• Cheap
• Colony/Pod
• Scout
• Fuel
• Platform
• Role A
• Role B
• Role C
• Role D

This info would be stored with the ship when it is created and will be displayed on both the Constr. screen and the "Select new task" screen.

Any ships that don't have this info when the game gets updated will default to "General"

Note: Role A through D is for custom roles that a player wants to track but we don't have a predefined value for them.

The reason to do this is because I often say, "now which ship was the design I built to do XYZ?"

--RC