DraynaRue

I still don't get why this isn't a thing already. I can understand that the whole "1000 points to win" adds a whole new level of strategy to the game and I'm not saying they should get rid of it but sometime you just want to go out there, kill and have fun without having having to worry about your team or the enemy team capping out at 1000 points and denying you that precious kill. I'm sure I'm not alone here in wanting a separate Random Battles mode where there are NO objectives other than "wipe out the enemy team". I mean who doesn't want to go on a mindless killing spree in highly armoured Maritime Warmachines plus winning by points kinda feels unhonourable and isn't as fun or as rewarding as wiping the enemy team. I'm sure we've all had that feeling of disappointment when the game ends as soon as we're about to end that pesky carrier or finally torp that Yamato that's been deleting half our team.

So there's something that's always bugged me about this game and that's the fact that you can have, for example, 2 Kongō-Class Fast Battleships or 2 St. Lewis-Class Heavy Cruisers, both called Kongō and St. Lewis respectively, when in reality only 1 of each existed under that name. These are "Name Ships" and irl only 1 of each class existed, all other ships of the same class were given new names. For example, for the Kongō Class Fast Battleship, you had Kongō (The Name Ship), Haruna and Kirishima. My suggestion is simple: Once a player logs into the update for the first time they'll be told to input a global Ship Name. This will act the default Ship Name in the event of a player not wanting to uniquely name all their ships. This "Ship Name" will have 2 segments that will be added depending on the Ship Sailed meaning that "Ship Name" will be made up of [ship Nation] [ship Type] and [unique Ship Name] (or [Global Ship Name]) If a player is sailing a FOG Ship their [ship Nation] will change to reflect that, for example "Japanese FOG" (currently only Japanese FOG ships exist in the game). Of course you can't call your ship anything, there will be automatic name filters which will stop you from naming your ship any of the following: Current and Upcoming Ships, all symbols, Profane or Offensive Language. If anything blocked by the filter is present a message will appear detailing what filter is was blocked by. This means that when your in battle a player's name tag will appear as [ship Name] and in the TAB window they'll appear as [ship Name] [(Player Name)]. Additionally underneath a player's name tag (and under each player's entry in the TAB window) will be the class of ship they are using. For example if I'm sailing my Kongō-Class Fast Battleship called Kirishima my name tag would appear as "Japanese Battleship Kirishima" and my TAB window entry as "Japanese Battleship Kirishima (DraynaRue)". Underneath both would be "Kongō-Class Battleship" in smaller letters. Finally only Admins and WarGaming staff will be able to sail the original "Name Ship". Of course, unlike reality, this will mean that more than 1 "Name Ship" will exist in the game but it does add a bit more realism into the game. Oh and players will be able to opt-out of this in the setting menu if they so wish. I hope I've explained this well enough for you to grasp the basics of my idea, I'm really bad at coherently putting my ideas across so I apologise if you don't understand.

That could work too but it wouldn't be as personal as a custom name.

They wouldn't need someone checking names if they have an automatic filter. Something that filters out existing Ship Names (in the game), all symbols, profane and offensive language, etc.

That's why I said you would be able to opt out of it. Also that would make for a very humorous game...poi poi

Will we have more chances to get these ARP ships, Kongou and Myoko? Like maybe a Tech Tree where we can research them...or just letting us buy them from the Store.

That's why I stated you could opt-out, some people would get confused so it makes sense.

OP has been amended to include filters. Also your top line makes no sense because I DID say you could have 2 Kongo-Class Battleships.