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[simonthedwarf]

Self-explanatory. I want to be able to name a squad myself if I deem the chosen dwarven name impairing my ability to rapidly determine the specifics of a squad.

Ex: "Cavemen"

The underequipped migrant mooks that die horribly fighting the cavern horrors. I like to have guards posted at the entrance to my fort and at the connecting entrance to the caverns from the rest of my fort. If I were able to name a squad I could have better control with the supply of fresh bodies among other stuff.

[peskyninja]

Everyone agree that we need custom names for the militia.

[dwarfhoplite]

this is what we need

[NRDL]

Posting to support. 

[Silverionmox]

Seconded. Trivial to code, too.

[OREOSOME]

same here

[Agorp Stronden]

\m/WOOT\m/

[Remalle]

I'll vote for this, sure.

[Blade Master Model 42]

Totally. But leave random generation as an option.

[OddTheTall]

My thought is random generation as default but you can 'nickname' the squads like you can a dwarf

[simonthedwarf]

Thanks for all the support, mentlegen.

I guess simplicity is king after all.

Now - How can we push this to the top of the food chain? Is there some special box we can put stuff that seems especially appropiate and self-explaining?

Do we have to hire husky hounds to deliver it to toady and train it to bite him if he doesn't take our note?

How to proceed

[simonthedwarf]

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/eternal_voting.php#vote182

Please vote if you support this small change. Its so easy to do, and so minute, that if it gets a top rating it would be easy for Toady to justify adding it.

[Forumite]

The Courageous Bolts and the Bulwarks of Barracading disagree.

Okay, sure, IŽd like to be able to nickname them, but I donŽt want the random names to go away.

[simonthedwarf]

The Courageous Bolts and the Bulwarks of Barracading disagree.

Okay, sure, IŽd like to be able to nickname them, but I donŽt want the random names to go away.

Me neither, if you re-read the suggestion and the one posted in the suggestion contest polls you'll see that its just the option to name it yourself thats wanted. I have no wish to borify "The Sacked Nuts" etc.

[Iapetus]

The third option would be to treat it like the fortress/group name selection, where you can keep generating new random names, or build a name from the various LANGUAGE_SYMBOL tokens.

(As a related issue, it would be nice if you could move squads up and down the squad list, to make it easier to keep track of your crossbow/melee/civilian squads).