Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Ships should have manufacturing data attached to them!

Which corporation manufactured them, date of manufacture, system where manufactured, and a unique serial number that is sequential for the class in question.

This would be a great way to individualize ships and maybe even trigger the new "dirt" that would build up on the ship over its lifetime.

Possibly one could even tag kill mails with the unique ship ID when a ship is destroyed.

Frequently proposed, frequently shot down.

Reasons:
Database size increases
Attribute scrubbing on repackaging
Sheer size of the number of IDs needed for ship IDs


On the other hand, go for it on AT ships and Plex for good or similar very short run, special edition ships.

Only if I can disable this on every single ship I ever build, buy or fly. I do not want to give free intel out to people.

Apart from the obvious issues involving cruelty to hamsters why would this be of any real use?

Its not like for instance a Vexor I build is going to be different in any way, shape or form to a Vexor built by anybody else.

Well mine would be at least 10% better, because I build everything with love, using only freshest, hand picked minerals.

so 10 digit alphanumeric system.

hmmm. 1 byte per character, 10 characters, minimum of 40k ships.....

so minimum of 400Mb of unique data added, if everyone has a single ship code, and there really are only about 40k characters that need such codes.

But..... a 3 digit unique ID has a max of 62^3 ships, so is obviously insufficient as this gives us only 238328 total ship codes. Even a 10 digit unique ID code might not suffice, though it does offer quite a few more. 62 to the 10th (10 digit code) gives us 839,299,365,868,340,224, which should keep eve going for awhile, but considering that eve is a great game for breaking systems just because we can, and that potentially some dude has 100 million shuttles in every station in a nullsec region, this gets stupidly large.

Now, the date code might fit into 3 digits, but this only gives us day information. Not precisely good intel, but intel enough to make many angry.

(Shrugs). Would be cool... Bout it.

Lets say we have a Caldari Dreadnought Phoenix built today and is the 10th completed that day

By base 36 digit (A-Z then 0-9)

1st digit - Race/Faction (12 current choices) - C (Caldari).... could be A (Amarr) B (Blood Raider), etc. based on how we assign them.
2nd digit - Ship Type (31 current major ship types) - D (Dreadnought)
3rd digit - Ship Class (1 Caldari Dreadnought class) - P (Pheonix)
4th digit - Day of Month (27 May would be 0) - 0 (27th)
5th digit - Month of 3 year cycle (lets say this begins with the original release date of EVE May 6, 2003 we are 12 years to the month as of today so this would be the 1st month of 4th 3 year cycle so letter A - A
6th digit - Cycle 4 of 3 year cycle would be D - D
7th digit - Unique ID - J for the 10th ship
8th - 10th - Unique ID - all A

So the unique number is CDP0ADJAAA

Its a base 36 numbering system:

The 27th ship of the day would be CDP0AD0AAA

The 37th ship of the day would be CDP0ADABAA

The 1,679,616th ship of the day (if it were indeed possible to build this many Phoenix in a day, let alone shuttles) would be CDP0AD9999 (or thereabouts)\

The code would be translated into when produced in the fitting window.

All of this is intended to generate a unique ID for each ship so it could be tracked until destroyed. It would be interesting to see how old some ships are, what they've killed, who they've passed from/to on the market, who stole them, etc.

All vehicles IRL aircraft, cars, boats, ship have unique identifiers. EVE should be no different.