Well at first I generally look at the class of the ship then I name it accordingly for instance:
Escorts: (don't deserve names)
Frigates: (name the class and the first few ships after exploration kinds of things like Enterprise, Intrepid, Wanderer, Seeker etc)
Destroyers: I generally don't actually build dessy's until I get battlecruiser sized ships and then I only use them as fast torpedo boats and thus don't name each ship beyond the first 4 ships of the very first dessy squadron I build because they are just so easily mass produced.
Generally Destroyers are named after snakes like my current Cobra mk2 destroyers.
Light Cruisers: Tend to get names like Blackbird, Gerard, Providence, Starwing. thins like that.
Cruiser/HeavyCruiser: Tend to be given rather militarized names such as Undaunted, Indefatigable, Terrorizer, Intimidator, Oppresser. So on.
Battlecruiser/Battleship: Tend to get even more hardened sounding names such as Undying Wrath, Furies, Doomgiver, President, Undying.
Dreadnought/Baseship: Well dreadnoughts tend to get names like Imperial, Imperious, Liberator, Liberty, Acoma, Sabertooth, Tornado. While base ships often get multi-part names like, Sword of Heaven, Sword of Hell, Rightious Fury, Harbringer, Victory's Grasp so on.
Carriers: Tend to get named after modern day carriers depending on the empire I'm playing as.
Stellar Manip: They tend to get no names for individual ships but the classes get rather streightfoward names like, Starkiller, World breaker, Void bringer so on.
Repair ships: Almost always called "Repairing Light".
Medical ships: Well individual medical ships get names like "Mercy" "Hope" "Hand of Faith" "Eightfold Path" that sort of thing while the classes tend to get names like "Nightingale" and others.
Troop ships: Famous battles, famous infantry generals and famous invasions
: For example "Alexander the Great" "General Patton" "Iwo Jima" "Normandy Landing" That sort of thing...
Well that's pretty much all
[ July 18, 2004, 20:28: Message edited by: Starhawk ]