How do you name your ships?

[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.

[Tigbit]

Mine will usually will be named like:

eg.
PD17 = Point defense first design. Then subsequent upgrades will be PD3, PD45, PD12 in that order... or some random choice of number. I seem to be under the impression that it confuses the enemy, so they can never be sure that a CS114 is actually better than a CS13 (CS=Capitol ship) or something. I actually started out counting down from 100 or something, but even that seemed a little too predictable. Even the abreviations I don't keep the same... I just think them up as I go.

But hey regardless of my naming convensions I still suck at the game.

[ July 20, 2004, 05:44: Message edited by: Tigbit ]

[Atrocities]

Any race with scanner technology most likely will figure out what kind of ships you have really early on so code naming your ships is mute after time.

Here is a trick that I have seen a lot of lately.

Code name your Star Killing ships simply names like Explorer, Prince of Peace, Scout, Friendly, Observer, Scientific, Peace Onvoy, Friendship 1, and Trade Vessel.

[dogscoff]

I have different conventions for single player and multi.

Single player I'm lazy, I use names like "Ice colony LR slow II" or "repair III".
However I do tend to give attack ships more colourful names: My first uber-nasty attack ship design will inevitably be called Skybastard, because I like the sound of it. My first dedicated anti-fighter design will be called "black mage" in honour of 8-bit theatre.

Multiplayer I just use random names/ words. For some reason I always seem to be missing my names files when I play. In the pvkprop game I have a massive fleet of ships with randomly rhyming names: Mean, Keen, Green, Treen, Unseen, Clean, Stream, Beam etc. I'm hoping that's at least as confusing for my enemies as it is for me...