RFE: Named Stages

[mjl1966]

Be great if we could name stages. Booster,Insertion,Transfer,Park,Deorbit,Land would be a lot easier to keep straight during building than S0,S1 etc.

[Evanitis]

I'd name them Bob, Cardboard, Poof and Stuff. Or something.

Jokes aside, never confused my stages before. I always activate them from bottom to top.

[Zephram Kerman]

I"ve never confused them either, but I do like the idea anyway. Just one more little thing to be more like RL space ships.

The stage numbers keep changing as technology improves and ships get modified (almost every flight). But if the main things were named, they would be identified more consistently across upgrades. Especially when sharing a save with other people collaborating on a project. In fact, we did name the stages, but there was no way to put those names in the game.

[sal_vager]

This would be good, and even better if decoupled stages kept the name, also I've popped this over to Suggestions.

[pincushionman]

If we could make vessels out of a bunch of instanced sub-assemblies (as opposed to merging the subassembly in like we do now), that would allow this behavior, and a whole lot of other possibilities as well.

Kinda like a CATIA .CATProduct or a ProE .asm.

[Layereddiagram]

This would be great for distinguishing the launcher from the mission. Kind of like how the booster was called the Saturn V and the payload was called Apollo.