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Author Topic: Manually Changing Squad and Fort names to whatever I want.  (Read 1224 times)

Gamerlord

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Manually Changing Squad and Fort names to whatever I want.
« on: June 28, 2013, 05:43:44 am »

Is this possible? I have seen squads called 'Axeorcs' or 'Swordorcs' in the orcfort succession game, I'd REALLY like to know how.

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Re: Manually Changing Squad and Fort names to whatever I want.
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2013, 05:47:36 am »

Fort names no, but changing squad names is a vanilla feature and can be done in the military menu.
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Re: Manually Changing Squad and Fort names to whatever I want.
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2013, 05:52:49 am »

Specific names? Without repeatedly disbanding/remaking the squad?

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Re: Manually Changing Squad and Fort names to whatever I want.
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2013, 06:07:57 am »

Specific names? Without repeatedly disbanding/remaking the squad?

yeah

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Re: Manually Changing Squad and Fort names to whatever I want.
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2013, 09:22:05 am »

Just press 'N' in the military screen. My kobold squad of witches is called "Witches of the Wild" for example. No problem.

I just wish there was a way to name pets.
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Re: Manually Changing Squad and Fort names to whatever I want.
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2013, 09:31:49 am »

Excellent.

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Re: Manually Changing Squad and Fort names to whatever I want.
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2013, 11:03:32 am »

The fortress and group names can be changed at embark, but they're not free text. The wiki page for fortress name is basically an orphan page oddly enough but gives an overview of the interface and name structure.

Edit: Ok, it's not really an orphan, it has a link from Fortress, which has plenty of inbound links. But it probably should have something from embark directly.... I think I'll fix that.
« Last Edit: June 28, 2013, 11:06:51 am by cdombroski »
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Re: Manually Changing Squad and Fort names to whatever I want.
« Reply #7 on: July 03, 2013, 06:46:13 pm »

I just wish there was a way to name pets.

You can use DF Hack's rename to give a pet a nickname. I did it in my last fort to give quite a few critters names.
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Re: Manually Changing Squad and Fort names to whatever I want.
« Reply #8 on: July 03, 2013, 11:35:41 pm »

I will test this. I thought it only works on civ-members.
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