Do any of you actually name your ships?

[Vortex_Xtreme]

Hi, just curious if anyone actually bothers to name all of their ships. (i do) just wondering...

[liga]

Not all but the first of each desaign and
the best of the fleet.

and, of curse, the fleet leader.

bye bye

[Coal]

Only the large baseships and some of my large carriers. And somtimes an important defense base.

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Rules? What rules?

[Devnullicus]

I name them according to what class they are. i.e. when I upgrade them, I make sure I rename them to be the new class name. So, for example, Small Fighter I 0001 would become Small Fighter II 0001. But then, I'm boring =)

[Taqwus]

Not normally.

In one game, I did grant distinctive names to ships that'd distinguished themselves (for instance, by reaching Elite or Legendary status).

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[rdouglass]

I only individually name my ships that are very specific or expensive. For instance, many times I build a WP opener/closer with (obviously) a WP opener, a WP closer, and a SY. Another one is my Planet Seeders (Planet Destroyer / Creator / and SY). I usuualy name them and then I usually name them based on the section of the map they are designated to 'work' in. I rarely ever name other ships.

[Fred]

only the famous...

nothing better than a BLÜCHER stopping a whole enemy fleet or a legendary VINCENNES light cruiser stopping an enemy invasion...

Fred

[Dracus]

I name them once they complete a tour of duty.

[Suicide Junkie]

I merged a bunch of name files that somebody posted a while back, and I just skim that for names as each ship gets built.

I usually keep a small empire, with less than ten, (avg. 7) full-time, big & tough defence ships, and a small fleet in mothballs.

EG. in my Story game, I've got 6 "Ubernaught" BCs, and one operational "Blackhole" DN. All are named.

[Trachmyr]

No, but I've gotteninto the habit of using similar ship designs and always using the same name for each design. However I use a large number of classes, so a fleet will have a Command ship, several Attack Ships, a few Planatary Assault Ships, a Troop Transport or 2, a couple of Carriers, a few Tanker Ships, several Point-Defense Ships, and a couple of Fast-Attack Ships... each class will have a diffrent name, so you're talking about 8 classes/names in my standard attack fleet. It would be too hard to name/remember all my ships, since I often build a lot of smaller ships... a standard attack fleet has 21, a defense fleet has 13, and a patrol fleet has 7... I easily hit upwards of 100 ships by mid-game!