Naming Ships

Gandalph · #1 June 27th, 2002, 01:27 AM

Wow, I guess I'm boring. I just use whatever names are in the race file. I do try to use a naming convention to allow me to quickly understand and seperate the different kinds of ships, but still, the names come from the ship names list of the empire I am playing with at the time.

Antonin · #2 June 27th, 2002, 02:15 AM

I call my drone classes Exocet (for anti-ship drones) and Scud (for anti-planetary drones).

I rarely build ships larger than battle cruisers, and those I name individually after African cities or rulers (Niamey, Abacha, Bokassa, etc).

I like to name frigates U101, etc, because of my fondness for the German WW2 submarine force.

Atrocities · #3 June 27th, 2002, 03:39 AM

There are CLASS names, ie the Design Names file, and then there are SHIP names.

DavidG · #4 June 27th, 2002, 04:43 AM

My favourite names are classics like "CLS 0001" and the unforgetable "DD 0002"

Anything else is just too damn confusing.

But then it is quite possible I'm easily confused.

[ June 27, 2002, 03:43: Message edited by: DavidG ]

Krsqk · #5 June 27th, 2002, 05:12 AM

I guess I'm boring, too, at least while I'm playing against the AI. My rock colonizers are "Rock Colonizer"; my attack ships are "Missile" or "Beam" or "Boarding," after their major weapon type. Just add water and Roman numerals for generation, and you're done!

Gryphin · #6 June 27th, 2002, 02:06 PM

I tend to use the initials from the hull size in the Class. I have not named individual ships, (yet). I’ve never tried to keep track of when ships were built. I guess it would be easy enough to include the year.month in the name. Example:
Fast Frigate Fragger “25.4A”
Bad A** Crusier 40.5

sachmo · #7 June 27th, 2002, 05:17 PM

I used to only change the ships name, i.e.

RSS Nemesis

as the class was always written below the ship name. Once I found that the class does not appear in fleets, I added the ship type to the end of the name, i.e.

RSS Nemesis FF 0001

Incidentally, I noticed that the numbering system will go back and try to fill in any holes, so if I lose FF 0002 in a battle and build a new FF then next turn, the ship which should have been FF 0016 is now 0002. Not a big deal, just annoying.