Re: How do you name your ships?
 

I like the Lovecraft theme. Since I usually play with a few beers in me, I like to keep it simple. I just use typical Naval designation followed by the speed at which they travel. DD6 or CA8 And I only upgrade every 2 movement points. The exception is specialty ships like minsweepers or boarding ships, colony ships. Those I just name them for what they are followed by speed number. What few bases I make are named after female porn stars followed by how many repair bays they have. Vanessa Del Rio can take on alot of vessels.

Re: How do you name your ships?
 

I really like that FLX! It's good that some come up with a bit more deeper names than the average MALEVOLENCE, BLADE, CRUSHER etc.

I always name my ships after well known (well...) black metal bands and always use roughly the same names. Like for instance a repair ship will always be named Nargaroth and a minesweeper will always be named Godless North.
For specialized ships I use another name, and will remember it, for I thrive to play only 1-2 games at a time.

Most disliked is the FR-PD-0012 namegiving by me. It's so unimaginative.

Furthermore I'd like to add that if an opponent names his ship LC minesweeper mk20 I would still consider it can be either a minesweeper or a light cruiser attack, the trick mentioned before only works with, well, stupid people I guess.

[ July 20, 2004, 12:05: Message edited by: freduk ]

Re: How do you name your ships?
 

I do always like a theme. Some of the names files that come with the game are pretty good. I had a Dragonball Z file, but need to recreate it. I want Goku, Vegeta and Super Saiyan class warships...and a Yajirobe that avoids any fight it can't absolutely win! Another time I used wrestler names and nicknames.

My favorite has to be cheese names, but mostly when using an organic race from a gas-methane homeworld. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: How do you name your ships?
 

Hello Taera & everyone,i use the the selected races files ship names.I name different hulls different names only.Example; all frigates have same name,cruiser have there OWN name.Example: Earthforce-LightCruiser named (Hyperion),when needed to upgrade it is (Hyperion a).Upgrade ship again it is (Hyperion b)& so forth.Its easyer this way,no longer i get confused.

Re: How do you name your ships?
 

Don't make the mistake I did.
In my first BPW game, (the ill fated Galactic Bash), I was getting my butt kicked. I named ships and planets and other things in various insulting ways. In my mind it was my people talking to his people. It was missunderstood and taken personaly. Ooops. We straightned that out and I renamed everything to somethng polite. I learned a real good leason.
Since that time I have always asked if the other person minded trash talk and have avoided anything worse that that.

Re: How do you name your ships?
 

I usually name my ships based on suburb or street names in my city.

Since I lived in Turkey for 15 months, sometimes I use Istanbul names, Turkish words, or made up turkish sounding names.

I'm not very creative with ship names, but I seem to get by....

Re: How do you name your ships?
 

best ships names are borg ones http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: How do you name your ships?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I tried that once; I found it too hard to keep my ships straight. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Usually my ships are just names from a name file or random names I think up with letters and such following to let me know what they are.

Re: How do you name your ships?
 

MY fleet flagship is the ISS Fyron, My chief reasearch vessel is the ISS Atrocities, I have a casino vessel--the USS Narf, oh wait a minute--no I dont have any ships named as such-heh http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: How do you name your ships?
 

Ships are named after what they do and are:
"Heavy Attack", "Light Attack", "Planet Maker"

then i add a "mk ###" to them (ie, Mk I, Mk II, Mk III, etc) to denote the Version of the ship (typically this is for upgrades or refinements).

I try to have only one of each type (heavy attack, light attack, boarding ship, carrier, troop transports, then the colony and stellar manipulation vehicles).

Fleets get either descriptive names (Defense Fleet Eridani for a defenisve fleet in the Eridani system) or demon names if thier attack fleets: Lucifer, Satan, Baal, Belial, Mephistocles, etc. Sometimes i'll use mythological names if i get bored (Balrog, Wolverines, etc).

Just a thought,
deth