Well I dont see why not but I think it should only apply to divisions and units that have killed a couple of units and should only be done once and cant be changed.

Great idea, if this happens I will make 2 motorized infantry and name the stack 'Rat Patrol'.

No one could ever stand up to the 11th Texan Infantry.

i wonder how he got that picture.....

Looking at how the text is formatted, I believe the picture he gave is from S1914. And possibly edited in some way.

their ww1 game?

Actually it's pretty sad that a game like this can't trust it's own player base to think of proud and stylish names for their units.

Sad, perhaps, but mostly accurate.

Given the ability to "nickname" individual units and/or larger formations for multiple units, I am afraid we would be more likely to see "First Infantry Division (Germany) 'K.Rokossovski eats boogers'" than "First Infantry Division (Germany) 'King of Prussia's Own.'"

Also, there seems to be a very real programming impediment to this suggestion, given the automatic re-numbering/re-assignment of constituent units and their parent formations every time individual units are combined or severed. One only has to look at the confusion of player-given battleship and aircraft carrier names. As things stand now, if a four battleship stack has four named ships/units, all four of those ship names appear in the spec sheet for the formation/stack. Where it gets weird is when three of the four named battleships are sunk, but the spec sheet for the formation/stack continues to list all four player-assigned ship names even though only one capital ship survives.

I fear that sorting out the programming to implement player-assigned unit/stack names would become a full-time job for the Bytro game developers.

My programming experience is in a LAMP environment, so depending on the underlying code it might be more or less irrelevant.

The UID of a stack is unlikely to be the displayed name, and it would be a fairly trivial task to add an extra data field (or overwrite the existing one). The extra work would be in building the interface for the changes and a little on the display code.

All trivial work for a good coder. Still hundreds of dollars of work.

The real problem I see is the one Montana identified.

Presumably there is already black list sanity checking for user names available but userspece being the jungle it is you'ld need to include a report function than then takes up human time every time some punk decides that Terance and Phillip said "sarx my goballs."

It would be possible to white list but that would remove a lot of the virtue of the feature. Otherwise you are putting a burden on the support staff every time some fool decided to be clever and rude, and well, it's the internet.....

well I'm for it but if it doesn't happen all the well.

people who never considered calling their kid "drop table students;"

Well they just don't get the joke.

I'd love this feature because I could name a unit the "Hellfighters" or the "Death Defiers." Instead we'd get units named crap like "**** Mother Mary" or "America Is ****." People are asses.