How do you name your ships?

[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...

[FLX]

Except for colony ships (CL-R, CL-G, CL-I) i use HP Lovecraft mitolgy names, so then, Shub-Niggurath (aka the Black Goat with a Thousand Young) is usually the name for a fighter carrier or a troop transport, Baoht Z'uqqa-Mogg (aka the Bringer of Pestilence) could be used for a Plague Bomb Ship or a Boarding Ship. obviuosly, Cthulhu is seldom used and hides an minesweeper or so

[freduk]

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 ]

[Cheeze]

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.

[FLX]

^^ thanks freduk, the designames are in the pbw misc files anyway

About the trick of calling "LC minesweeper PD3 CT2" a warship... well, when you see warping thru your warppoint a sum of 7x"LC minesweeper PD3 CT2" + 2x"CR seekers PD3 CT2" + one "CR phased CT2" is easy to guess that what you really have there: 7 warships + 2 minesweeper + 1 SY ship

[Kevin Arisa]

I remember playing a plant race against my brother's magma race. I was kinda insulted when one of his fleets was comprised of new ships named "Hot Tea." As it turns out, that fleet single handedly glassed most of my border colonies before I could deal with it. I remember it made me mad every time I saw those ships. Mostly their effectiveness annoyed me, but the name was a slap in face as well.

[Raging Deadstar]

Originally posted by FLX:
Except for colony ships (CL-R, CL-G, CL-I) i use HP Lovecraft mitolgy names, so then, Shub-Niggurath (aka the Black Goat with a Thousand Young) is usually the name for a fighter carrier or a troop transport, Baoht Z'uqqa-Mogg (aka the Bringer of Pestilence) could be used for a Plague Bomb Ship or a Boarding Ship. obviuosly, Cthulhu is seldom used and hides an minesweeper or so

Thats Great, there's a quote i remember my friend once said...

"What happens if you Nuke Cthulhu?"
"He reforms 15 minutes later...and now he's radioactive!"

I plan to use this as inspiration for Organic armoured battleships that survive Capital Ship Missiles