Naming units.

[mgbx4]

Can you name units whenever you want now or do you still have to wait til promotion? I havent played for a year or so and Im dl at the moment the game . Thanks

 

[TPQ]

Afaik, you still have to wait for a promo. I never name units, so I'm not 100% sure, but I'm 95% sure and if I'm wrong, well, somebody will correct me .

 

[The Little One]

Yeah, you have to wait for promotion. The easy way round that is to build a barracks and an armory in the city that you want to build the unit in and then it will get a free promotion, letting you rename it instantly

 

[mgbx4]

Afaik, you still have to wait for a promo. I never name units, so I'm not 100% sure, but I'm 95% sure and if I'm wrong, well, somebody will correct me

Booo I love to rename my units

Yeah, you have to wait for promotion. The easy way round that is to build a barracks and an armory in the city that you want to build the unit in and then it will get a free promotion, letting you rename it instantly

this sounds like the easier fix....Thanks

 

[HalveBlue]

Yeah, this (STILL) needs to be fixed.

The player should be able to edit the unit name whenever they feel like. Also, it'd be name if the new unit names would show up in the mil adviser screen, instead of the the standard, generic unit names.

Also get rid of the 15 (or was it 20) character limit.

 

[trueblue]

Yeah, this (STILL) needs to be fixed.

no, my friend. they are not taking their time to fix something that is broken.




naming units is merely a feature that you would like to see included. nothing more.

 

[WilliamKendall]

I enjoy naming my military units. However, when these named military units are killed, its very hard to figure out which specific unit was just lost. Am I missing some function in the game that tells you the name of the killed units? Thank you!

 

[FeiLing]

I recently found out how to rename your cities lol, didn't even know itwas possible. Just found it by accident. And now you people are telling me that one can rename individual units?? I'll be trying right now to find out how and how I could possibly never have seen that option.

 

[codekiddy]

Well not only cities and units can be renamed,

You can rename your leader name, civilization and natianlity

 

[WilliamKendall]

And now you people are telling me that one can rename individual units?? I'll be trying right now to find out how and how I could possibly never have seen that option.

Its a fun little tool, though not as easy to access or use as it could be. If I remember correctly, when a unit receives a promotion, you have the option of clicking on the "Edit" tool before you select the promotion. If that doesn't work, please let me know and I'll double check.

I greatly wish CIV5 had a screen which listed the names of all your units, dead and alive.

 

[Aristos]

I remember it was fairly easy to add the code snippet to your files to get editing names to work at all times; I remember doing it for earlier versions but that was overwritten with latest patches and I didn't bother with it anymore... let me check if I can find how I did it and then post again here.

 

[Aristos]

OK, got it:

Put this code inside your UnitPanel.lua file; if you are not using any mods, or if none for your mods alter this file, you should add this to the vanilla UnitPanel.lua; if any of your mods alter this file, you should add the code to the UnitPanel.lua inside your mod. Works, just tested. Whenever your right-click on the unit's name, you can edit the name.

function OnUnitNameRClicked()
    -- Rename this unit
    OnEditNameClick();
end
Controls.UnitNameButton:RegisterCallback( Mouse.eRClick, OnUnitNameRClicked );
Controls.UnitPortraitButton:RegisterCallback( Mouse.eRClick, OnUnitNameRClicked );

 

[WilliamKendall]

Put this code inside your UnitPanel.lua file; if you are not using any mods, or if none for your mods alter this file, you should add this to the vanilla UnitPanel.lua; if any of your mods alter this file, you should add the code to the UnitPanel.lua inside your mod. Works, just tested. Whenever your right-click on the unit's name, you can edit the name.

Thank you. This sounds great!

Any chance there is a way to display all your named units or get the game to include your unit's name when they are killed?