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Yeah, the shipnames.txt file looks like gibberish when you open it. I tried converting it into a regular text file, so that the entries looked the way Teeth 03 suggested. The file looks okay to me, but when I tried it out in SFC3, EVERY ship was named ??? -- so that didn't particularly work.
Sarcasm is fine and dandy, but Notepad does not suffice. Unless The_Pelican uses a different kind of Notepad than what Captain Evans and I are using...
Any helpful suggestions? I read somewhere around here that it takes SFC3 a while to recognise newly-added ships during a campaign (i.e. you started a campaign, saved your status, added a new mod, loaded the campaign again, and only after a while does the new ship appear). Could the same be true for the shipnames.txt file, or am I talking complete nonsense?