Vessel Names

[zulu354]

Hey guys.

Is there any way to get rid of the weird vesseln names? I mean, for example, I want to give a vessel the name Apollo 1, I get a name like Apollo1-4.

How do I get rid of the -4? It looks ridiculous.

 

Cheers.

[magnemoe]

Yes, you can change the name in the tracking station. Has not found other places to change it. 
Note That stuff you release will get weird name like vessel-25 and if you dock ship become combined-3 or something. 
Heavier ship name should be kept in this case. 

[Scarecrow71]

Yeah, it's annoying that I name something "This Ship Right Here" and then the game changes it to "This Ship Right Here-3".  I get why it would do that if we had the same ship name across 2 or more ships.  But please don't do that.  Just...don't.  It's confusing enough that we have only 1 kind of ship (vessel) as opposed to what we had in KSP1 (vessel, probe, station, rover, etc.).

[magnemoe]

30 minutes ago, Scarecrow71 said:

Yeah, it's annoying that I name something "This Ship Right Here" and then the game changes it to "This Ship Right Here-3".  I get why it would do that if we had the same ship name across 2 or more ships.  But please don't do that.  Just...don't.  It's confusing enough that we have only 1 kind of ship (vessel) as opposed to what we had in KSP1 (vessel, probe, station, rover, etc.).

Yes and any capsule or probe let you rename craft. 

[zulu354]

I remember a mod from KSP1 - Project Manager - loved to use it. It automatically named your vessels accordingly, like if your third itteration of Kapollo launched, it named it automatically Kapollo 3.

 

Hope something like that will find the way into vanilla KSP2 one day.