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The situation report for a ship being built now says the ships design also.

The sitrep for creating a ship would now read for example:
"The ship Woodpecker has been produced at Grotto. The Woodpecker is a Scout."

Good idea!

I'd rephrase it:
"A Scout has been produced at Grotto. It is named Woodpecker."

To put the important info first.

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Ah good point thanks that does sound much better.

It used to say something along the lines of "The ship Woodpecker has been produced at Grotto" right?

Why not just replace the word "ship" with the ship class?

"The Scout 'Woodpecker' has been produced at Grotto" or "The Leviathan 'War Hammer' has been produced at Orion" (using quotation marks to more clearly delineate the ship type and the ship name).

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Even better.

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Should be just a stringtable change, so feel free to experiment / commit.

Ok, it's now:
A %shipdesign%,'%ship%' has been produced at %system%.

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Hm, besides a missing space after the comma, I see a potential grammatical problem with the use of an indefinite article here: if someone happens to create a design and give it a name starting with a vowel, let's say, for example, "Ark", we will get: "A Ark, 'Trafalgar' has been produced at Grotto." Now I'm not a native speaker, but shouldn't that be "An Ark..."?

So my suggestions would be, to make things simple: Drop the indefinite article and the comma, so it will read: "%shipdesign% '%ship%' has been produced at %system%." My previous example would result in: "Ark 'Trafalgar' has been produced at Grotto".

I don't see a problem with simply using the definite article, since there is only one ship with the particular name. So even though the 'Woodpecker' is a Scout, it's still the Scout 'Woodpecker'.

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Can we get "SITREP_SHIP_DESTROYED_AT_SYSTEM" to also understand the ship design and owner, so it can read:
"The Humanix Imperium Mark II, Seeker was destroyed at Procyon"
instead of
"The ship Seeker was destroyed at Procyon"

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There might be minor issues with non-player owned ships... and I don't recall whether this string is used for non-player-owned monsters.

There were some issues as expected, but:
* I made extra sitrep messages for unowned ships, fleets, planets, and buildings being destroyed.
* Monsters that are unowned use the unowned ship sitrep. This works for that, but it's a bit awkward since monster ships usually have the same name as their ship design, so you end up with "The Dyson Tree Dyson Tree was destroyed at Bell."

Maybe some name generator could be provided for monsters?

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