Thread: Object does not recognize variables but it's class does? (Feel like a noob :( )

My first legit program :3 a pretty big and complicated one! Sigh... However I'm already having problems. Let me give you some background. For now I am simply logging a bunch of ships and their stats. I started out making each ship (like AdvHvgCruiser, below) a class of it's own. It worked great, but then I could not for the life of me remember why I did that instead of making them objects. I saved that project but reformatted it into this... And now I'm having problems


Here's what I have in this class:

import stocharactertracker.ships.Ships; (all of the variables are declared and set default in Ships)

public class FedCruiser extends Ships {
public FedCruiser() {
this.shipType = "Cruiser";
this.shipFaction = "Federation";
this.cruiserSpecial = true; }
(This is all fine, following is where the problem is)

FedCruiser AdvHvyCruiser = new FedCruiser() {
this.shipName = "Advanced Heavy Cruiser";
..... (A ton more declarations..) } }

In the object I get "illegal start of type... Identifier expected"

I don't know why .-.
Please, explain and give a solution.should I switch bal to the classes idea?

Thank you for your time ^.^

P.S. My wifi is down so I have been on my phone...

import stocharactertracker.ships.Ships; //all of the variables are declared and set default in Ships
 
public class FedCruiser extends Ships {
  public FedCruiser() {
     this.shipType = "Cruiser";
     this.shipFaction = "Federation";
     this.cruiserSpecial = true; }
//This is all fine, following is where the problem is
 
   FedCruiser AdvHvyCruiser = new FedCruiser() {
        this.shipName = "Advanced Heavy Cruiser"; //ERROR: illegal start of type cannot find symbol: class shipName <identifier> expected
        // more declarations ERROR here as well

I see it in the code box that looks like an IDE , now if that's what you mean.

You might have checked before I edited, I accidentally spelle highlight wrong in the first one

I did put the full message of the error...

"Illegal start of type
Cannot find symbol: class shipName
<identifier> expected"

The IDE points this out to me before I even run

shipName was a String declared in the Ships class, as previously stated...

Wherein lies the question.

There is no error in the compiler because I have not yet given it any output commands.
"Anonymous class attempt"? Sorry
I am only trying to set the variables I declared in Ships more specifically inside new objects in the FedCruisers class, if that makes sense

--- Update ---

The Ships class is only a list of

<primitive> <primitive name> = <value>

A rrrrreally long list, it's pretty pointless to put here. As I mentioned before, I was doing the same thing but with each ship (what I have tried making an object of the FedCruiser class here) as it's own class, but I thought this might make more sense for my application?

Hmm sorry for all the confusion. Is there a way to make it show you the errors when you haven't asked for output? Is it better to just make them subclasses of FedCruiser like I did originally and then just create an object there, or make them all objects in the FedCruiser class? (i am relatively new to programming, much under 1 yr I'm sure you can tell x3)

That will be an extremely long list of stuff in the constructor... So I think I will stick with the other way.
Thank you very much!