What names do you usually use for your ships in games?

Raptor

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12 years ago

Apr 19, 2012, 1:13:18 PM

Since it will be possible to name ship classes in ES it would be nice to see some ideas. I usually name mine after Japanese WWII ships, so these are the names I generally use: Akagi, Yamato, Koga, Soryu, Shokaku, Musashi...

MODNosferatiel

Informer

"God's in his heaven, all's right with the world." Nerv Motto, Neon Genesis Evangelion

MODNosferatiel

Informer

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12 years ago

Apr 19, 2012, 1:15:13 PM

Moons in our solar system.

Io, Puck, Enceladus, Mimas, Europa, Rhea, Ariel, Phobos, Iapetus, Titan, Titania, Ganymede, Phoebe, Triton, Tethys, Dione...

Alderbranch

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Alderbranch

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12 years ago

Apr 19, 2012, 1:24:11 PM

What comes to my mind.

This would be something like normal...

()V hhhhhhhhhbfv vkj *purrrrr*

Damn that cat

Why cant she leave me alone while im gaming.

No honey, I dont want to take out the trash

Why cant she just help out by giving me some whisky

OMG... not the phone

DAMNIT I forgot to turn off the cellphone...

VIPznork

Ninja

i were a ninja once

VIPznork

Ninja

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12 years ago

Apr 19, 2012, 1:33:28 PM

mi ships are tiny boy, boy and big boy. And bad ass! that is the bigest ships

maceman

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maceman

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12 years ago

Apr 19, 2012, 2:02:40 PM

ex girlfriends?

WiZz

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WiZz

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12 years ago

Apr 19, 2012, 6:59:05 PM

As for me it's not important what name. I'm using standard, which game proposes me.

In other cases I named ships regardless their function and weapon. Something like this - System defense ship with heavy lasers -> DefShip(HLas)

MT4K

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MT4K

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12 years ago

Apr 19, 2012, 7:38:48 PM

I either use some mythological name, a japanese word/latin word, or a very simple structured code style name to identify the ship's purpose and weaponry instantly at a glance.

On special situations though i will name something important after something from a game i hold fond memories of... sigh.... something like Magus, or Nall :P.

Shenzen

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Shenzen

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12 years ago

Apr 20, 2012, 7:07:45 PM

I like to give them very clear names, depending of the ask they were build for. "Defender", "First Line", "Big-ass gun in your face" "f**k you Hivers". I do it since i sent a full colony fleet on the ennemy homeworld, thinking they were bombers.

Alderbranch

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Alderbranch

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12 years ago

Apr 20, 2012, 7:10:36 PM

Shenzen wrote:
I like to give them very clear names, depending of the ask they were build for. "Defender", "First Line", "Big-ass gun in your face" "f**k you Hivers". I do it since i sent a full colony fleet on the ennemy homeworld, thinking they were bombers.

LOL, thats just hilarious... ive done the same thing in many games... like sending in a main or sec. hero in heros without the army... or forgot the heavyhitters and attacking with cannonfodder in space empires etc...

Naproxia

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Naproxia

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12 years ago

Apr 20, 2012, 7:49:24 PM

Sentinal,Guardian,Vanguard,Hawk,Lynx and Oh Holy C**p

ethoril

Eyder

ethoril

Eyder

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12 years ago

Apr 20, 2012, 7:56:02 PM

Anything that ends with: -(a)tor (colonisator, destructor, dominator...)

Sorry for that :/

(and i give girl names to tanks since Close Combat 3)

(Sorry for that too)

Ankehl

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Ankehl

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12 years ago

Apr 25, 2012, 2:27:15 PM

I use most of the time default names, but when i rename my ships from Imperial Star Destroyers

Quendis

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Quendis

Old Pixel

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12 years ago

Apr 26, 2012, 5:36:42 PM

I always love to use British navy names.

HMS invincible, always has a nice ring to it.

And always there has to be at least one named Enterprise.

Can't play a space game without that.

SomeGuy

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SomeGuy

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12 years ago

Apr 27, 2012, 1:51:14 AM

I'm pretty bland. I tend to keep things simple: Corvette, Corvette Mk 2, Corvette Mk 3 and so forth.

However, if I had to, I'd theme my ships around various animals. Cougar class corvette. Elephant class dreadnought.

ergie

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ergie

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12 years ago

Apr 30, 2012, 10:48:14 AM

Same here. The role name and a number to control the tech applied to it (Destroyer Mk1, Destroyer Mk2, etc) I only name the ships that have survived a big battle, or have acomplished something special, and usually with crushing names (Hammer, Anvil, etc)

bigmo280373

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bigmo280373

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12 years ago

May 1, 2012, 10:03:39 AM

I usually go with a function for the ship depending on it's function and whatever the bulk of the equipment is: Planet Bomber, Ship Destroyer, Shielder, Monster Destroyer, etc... In MOO2, I usually only gave special name to ships when they had a commander onboard or something much less generic than the rest of the flleet.

Boygor

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Boygor

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12 years ago

May 1, 2012, 11:14:28 AM

I usually just go for "Destroyer", "Cruiser", Battle Cruiser" etc although I always called my ships packed with assault shuttles "Hunter". If a game starts to get personal my names get more dramatic. There have been a few games when i've been spamming "Hope" class warships. Sometimes works out, sometimes doesn't:eek:

DannyD

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DannyD

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12 years ago

May 1, 2012, 3:03:12 PM

I use various names, from solar system planets to fantasy name with with a sign like ISS-2554

For Example : ISS Neptune 4785 / ISS Gemini 5992

flopsies

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flopsies

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12 years ago

May 1, 2012, 8:25:21 PM

I usually use famous battles, commanders, rulers, weapons, and sci fi characters and writers, like SFS Asimov, SFS Heinlein, SFS Seldon, SFS Trantor, SFS Mua'dib

Cr3d0

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Cr3d0

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12 years ago

May 2, 2012, 2:36:18 PM

http://ptn.home.xs4all.nl/Naval/naval.html

good source of ship/class names