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Suggestion - Hull Registration Plate

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Cleuseau Remos
Infinite Point
Pandemic Horde
#1 - 2013-06-01 21:48:02 UTC
Ships hulls could have registration plates that contain the following information:

  • Date of Manufacture
  • Manufacturer
  • Manufacturer note
  • Location of Manufacture


It has been my thought that most things in the far future will be much like they are now. Our vehicles include all this information within them. True car aficionados love these details.

Imagine having:

the oldest known rifter in existence.
a legion built in the Rooks & Kings home system
a snarky note from one of the most prolific builders in the game "This end up!"

This small database hit would add quite a bit of depth to the game. Of course, all these would have to be exposed through contracts for collectors to search for individual attributes they like - and bulk purchasers would never know what they are going to get.


+1 if you like the idea. If you've heard this idea before somewhere else please post a link.
Salea Sun
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2013-06-01 21:51:48 UTC
Location of manufacture could be an intel no-no, but whats on the 'plate' could be optional fields. Aside from that, would be kind of neat to 'sign' the items we produce, and even cooler if you could in some sense find out where it ends up once it's blown up.
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#3 - 2013-06-01 21:53:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Tippia
That would require all produced ships to be singletons rather than a simple +1 in a generic item stack. The database hit would not be small and would entail a pretty significant rewrite of… oh… pretty much the entire item management system.

Would it be neat? Yes. Is it feasible? No.
Vaju Enki
Secular Wisdom
#4 - 2013-06-01 21:54:31 UTC
This is a cool idea, and can be usefull for a new type of market warfare, for exemple, you can manufacture a ship and make it so it can never be used by X entity/corporation/alliance, or pilots with negative sec status.

The Tears Must Flow
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#5 - 2013-06-01 21:54:46 UTC
I already track the age of my megas.
Adunh Slavy
#6 - 2013-06-01 21:57:37 UTC
Tippia wrote:
That would require all produced ships to be singletons rather than a simple +1 in a generic item stack. The database hit would not be small and would entail a pretty significant rewrite of… oh… pretty much the entire item management system.

Would it be neat? Yes. Is it feasible? No.



Considering we can name ships, have damaged ships, this is not much of an issue. It's just a more elaborate name field. Repack the ship, plate goes poof.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.  - William Pitt
ElQuirko
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2013-06-01 22:01:15 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
I already track the age of my megas.


If your megas live long enough to gain any significant age you're doing it wrong. Or very right. But probably wrong.

Dodixie > Hek
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#8 - 2013-06-01 22:01:55 UTC
Adunh Slavy wrote:
Considering we can name ships, have damaged ships, this is not much of an issue. It's just a more elaborate name field. Repack the ship, plate goes poof.
Sure, but that's not what the OP is talking about. In those cases, the item is already a singleton (and much more cumbersome for the database to handle). That transition happens when you assemble the ship — you take a generic item and create a unique instance of it — which means that there is still no way to track the manufacturer or any of the other characteristics the OP is asking for.
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#9 - 2013-06-01 22:10:14 UTC
ElQuirko wrote:
baltec1 wrote:
I already track the age of my megas.


If your megas live long enough to gain any significant age you're doing it wrong. Or very right. But probably wrong.


Diplomatic Incident (Better known as The Delve Mega) lasted 245 days and took part in every fleet from Maelstrom Alpha fleets to tengu fleets to Hawk roams. There was a jabber broadcast when she died.

Delve 2 went down today at the ripe old age of 121 days old.
Dave Stark
#10 - 2013-06-01 22:29:54 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
I already track the age of my megas.


you should measure their age like children do with conkers.
Tsu Xin Ohmiras
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#11 - 2013-06-02 08:27:38 UTC
it just requires 1 new field (Date+serial#), this can be referenced in the show info sub routine.
so there is little added load.
Shian Yang
#12 - 2013-06-02 08:36:00 UTC
Cleuseau Remos wrote:
If you've heard this idea before somewhere else please post a link.


Greetings capsuleer,

Unfortunately your idea is neither new nor original.

Refer to Ship Manufacture Tracking by capsuleer Maindrain, shared in the highly appropriate Features and Ideas section. And Manufacturer bragging rights by capsuleer Sublime Rage. Coincidentally in the same sub-section with high relevance to features and ideas.

Regards,

Capsuleer Yang
Ris Dnalor
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#13 - 2013-06-02 08:36:33 UTC
Tippia wrote:
That would require all produced ships to be singletons rather than a simple +1 in a generic item stack. The database hit would not be small and would entail a pretty significant rewrite of… oh… pretty much the entire item management system.

Would it be neat? Yes. Is it feasible? No.



run it from time ship is assembled. would perform the same basic function and assembled ships already have separate database entries no?

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  • Qolde
ISD Gallifreyan
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#14 - 2013-06-02 08:58:53 UTC  |  Edited by: ISD Gallifreyan
This thread has been moved from General Discussions to the appropriate section of the forums.
As a collector, I like this idea.
+1

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Danika Princip
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#15 - 2013-06-02 13:41:01 UTC
Would I be able to remove this from all of my ships, or would I have to start building my own if I didn't want silly little info plates on them?
Tristanor
Majorum Gnavita In Industria
#16 - 2013-06-02 14:16:09 UTC
May I add an extra one....I do it anyway ......
Let the plate be one of the items there are for salvage for sure and let it be collectable thus :)
Cleuseau Remos
Infinite Point
Pandemic Horde
#17 - 2013-06-03 21:47:03 UTC
Tristanor wrote:
May I add an extra one....I do it anyway ......
Let the plate be one of the items there are for salvage for sure and let it be collectable thus :)



I like this idea. "I got the titan registration plate drop"

I DO NOT like the tracking idea.

Should be secret to the owner unless they care to screenshot it or sell it with it revealed.

I do not believe this idea is the same as others presented or linked so far in this thread.