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Community => Simutrans Help Center => Topic started by: Robert on May 15, 2014, 11:22:42 PM

Title: Why there is this (a number) before the name of my vehicules?
Post by: Robert on May 15, 2014, 11:22:42 PM
I know it's only a detail but I have a quetion : Why, each time I close Simutrans and I open it again, a number in parenthesis appears before all the name of my vehicules. I erase it each time but it always comes back the next time i close Simutrans. How i could remove it definitly?
Title: Re: Why there is this (a number) before the name of my vehicules?
Post by: jamespetts on May 16, 2014, 12:07:46 AM
One cannot erase this number - it is the internal ID of the convoy.
Title: Re: Why there is this (a number) before the name of my vehicules?
Post by: Robert on May 16, 2014, 12:40:40 AM
Ahh ok thks but it could be good to remove that in futur release.
Title: Re: Why there is this (a number) before the name of my vehicules?
Post by: Václav on May 17, 2014, 04:37:29 PM
I don't think so, Robert.

But I have a better idea - switch between names, IDs and both.
Title: Re: Why there is this (a number) before the name of my vehicules?
Post by: Ters on May 17, 2014, 07:45:21 PM
I think having the id as part of the name helps a lot when reporting problems, or rather when investigating problems others have reported. Names are not a unique identifier. It could arguably be shown next to, rather than inside, the name field. That way one avoids the confusing fact that the number can be temporarily removed.