CPU ship naming scheme?

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I've been trying to figure out how the CPU decides names for its ships (out of curiousity), but I only have what "type" of ship goes with what hull, like BattleShips are large hulls, Frigates are medium, but I don't know what the MX-Y (X and Y are numbers) is for, if it even means anything. I only have the original GalCiv II, none of the expansions.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The Y part is AFAIK a serial number, like the one added to the ships you build.

The X part is the generation of the design, so higher numbers indicate a newer design.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The serial number is after the Y. I thought those were generation numbers, but lower ones are sometimes better. The name format is "[Race][Type] MX-Y [serial]

For example, a ship in a game I was just playing was "Altarian Cruiser M9-1 223" (the 223 being the serial number) which was worse than an "Altarian Cruiser M5-3" by a large margin.

However, in every case I've seen, when the X is the same, higher Y numbers are better, it's better. So the Y is a generation number, but X has yet to make sense.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hm. Alternative theory:

The Y part is indeed the generation, and the MX part is the month of the currenty year in which the design was made? I also think the autodesign feature for the player uses the same naming scheme, which would help figuring this out.
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In that video at about 3:35 the person mentions that you can see the year ships were made. The M must stand for Mark (which the guy in the video mentions) and something else shows the year.. But the quality is too low for me to see exactly which number is which.

Oh, also, what autodesign feature? I've never heard of it...

Okay, I've confirmed that X is definitley the year, where 2225 is year 0. I'm guessing you just go back to 0 at year 10, that's why 5-Y was better than 9-Y, because 5-Y was really 15-Y