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Recommendation to use original ship name plus a suffix in auto naming of undocked or decoupled parts


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So right now when we undock or decouple a ship, the part left behind gets renamed to "Default Name [some number]". I would like to recommend instead the part gets named "[name of ship] - [Letter indicator]" or "[name of ship] - Debris [some number], if the part has no control parts.

So for example if I built an Apollo style Mun mission with a ship named "MunLaunch1", when I staged the launch engines, they would get labeled "MunLaunch1 - Debris 1" , "MunLaunch1 - Debris 2" etc... Then when I undocked the lander module, the part I'm controlling would get labeled "MunLaunch1 - A", and the drive segment behind me would be labeled "MunLaunch1 - B"

I suppose that naming convention could run out of characters if you have like 27+ controlled stages, but even then the convention could be something like "MunLaunch1 - A1", "MunLaunch1 - A2" etc. Also I feel like a mission with more than 26 stages each with their own control part is being intentionally wacky. :D

In any case I think this would make it much easier to track missions with multiple components as well as know where various debris came from.

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