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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>A '''ship number''' is the identifier assigned to one of a player's persistent ships. It belongs to the player's ship record, not to the temporary slot currently used to run that ship in memory.<br />
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== Assignment ==<br />
A user record keeps <code>topshipno</code>, the highest number assigned to that player so far. Creating another ship increments that counter and places the new number in the ship record's <code>shipno</code> field. The database identifies a persistent ship by its owner together with this ship number. The number is therefore scoped to that user's ships: different users can each have a ship number 1.<br />
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== Fleet selection ==<br />
The ship-selection routine lists a player's stored ships in ship-number order. It gives the visible entries consecutive menu choices and keeps the corresponding <code>shipno</code> for loading the selected record. Thus a menu choice is not necessarily the ship's persistent number. If ships numbered 1 and 2 are gone but numbers 3 and 5 remain, those surviving ships can appear as choices 1 and 2; selecting choice 2 loads ship number 5. A newly created ship receives a new number rather than filling a gap, keeping the ship selection list in the order of when the ships were first acquired. Classic lists all owned ships at once; ge-next paginates the menu, restarting the displayed choices at 1 on each page. See [[Classic bug: Ship-selection output overflow]] for why pagination was needed.<br />
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== Not a ship slot ==<br />
The [[Ship slot]] is a reusable in-memory position for a currently active user or NPC. A player may leave and re-enter while retaining the same persistent ship number but using a different live slot. Scan letters are another distinct identifier: [[Scantab]] maps a player's temporary letters to current slots.<br />
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ge-arena does not retain ordinary persistent ship records between matches, so its temporary arena ships should not be interpreted as a user's numbered fleet.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[New command]]<br />
* [[Ship slot]]<br />
* [[Scantab]]<br />
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