How do you name your ships?

[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.

[Imperial]

MY fleet flagship is the ISS Fyron, My chief reasearch vessel is the ISS Atrocities, I have a casino vessel--the USS Narf, oh wait a minute--no I dont have any ships named as such-heh

[Deth B0y]

Ships are named after what they do and are:
"Heavy Attack", "Light Attack", "Planet Maker"

then i add a "mk ###" to them (ie, Mk I, Mk II, Mk III, etc) to denote the Version of the ship (typically this is for upgrades or refinements).

I try to have only one of each type (heavy attack, light attack, boarding ship, carrier, troop transports, then the colony and stellar manipulation vehicles).

Fleets get either descriptive names (Defense Fleet Eridani for a defenisve fleet in the Eridani system) or demon names if thier attack fleets: Lucifer, Satan, Baal, Belial, Mephistocles, etc. Sometimes i'll use mythological names if i get bored (Balrog, Wolverines, etc).

Just a thought,
deth