How do you name your ships?

[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

[EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro]

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.

[HEMAN]

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.

[Gryphin]

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.

[Greybeard]

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....

[astruskustuvas]

best ships names are borg ones

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by astruskustuvas:
best ships names are borg ones

I tried that once; I found it too hard to keep my ships straight.

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.