How do you name your ships?

[Starhawk]

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 ]

[Slynky]

Besides using the word "wind" in a lot of names when I'm in my "wind naming" mood, I don't really have much of a convention besides labeling the ship hull in front of the name.

Sometimes, for fun, I tease the opponent with a name that one MIGHT be able to figure out...one of those, is naming a ship "Buffy". Buffy is a vampire slayer. So, the ship type is a "slayer" (or Sat Layer...get it?). Of course, naming a mine sweeper "broom" is a bit obvious . I'd rather name one, "Pledge" (as in a product used for dusting...and dusting off mines is what a sweeper does).

Don't ask Mark the Merciful how he names his ships! I was thwacked by ships called names such as "Pork", "Pork rinds", and "Bacon".

[Captain Kwok]

I tend to name all my ships individually - although I might get a bit lazy with repair, cargo, or supply ships.

I try to use names to match the race I'm playing.

[Kamog]

I usually don't name each ship individually; I just use the class name with the number after it because there's just too many ships to come up with unique names.

Some space yard ships I rename so that they come up in an organized order in the construction list. The ships that I want on the very top of the list I rename with a * at the beginning of the name.

As for ship class names, depending on what I feel like, I use one of the standard name lists, or I might use:

1. Pokemon names: Gengar, Raichu, Lapras, Eevee, Mew, Lugia, Entei, Moltres, Togepi, Starmie, etc
2. Location names from RPG's: Wutai, Nibelheim, Ryuon, Roron, Kueri, Midgar, Landen, Kadary, Kohlingen, Reza, Kuran, etc
3. Zoanoid names from Guyver: Ramotith, Gregole, Thancrus, Gaster, Derzerb, Panadyne, Aptom, Vamore, etc
4. Angel and computer names from Evangelion: Sachiel, Shamshel, Ramiel, Iruel, Melchior, Balsathar, Sahaqiel, etc

[Loser]

When I'm up against a Religious Player (and losing, inevitably) I like to name the special classes I design for them things like Faithless, Apostate, Unbeliever, Agnostic, Atheist, or Heretic.

[se5a]

I tend to use a mix of random letters and codes. unfortunaly I tend to just use the same name and a simular code when I upgrade, and even when I upsize to.

[Loser]

I think there are players out there who use text to make little pictures for the names of thier ships. I think I took over for someone once who did this.

Maybe it makes it easier to see them, clearly.