Naming Ships

[Antonin]

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]

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

[DavidG]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[CW]

I name my ships totally for practical reasons. I tend to play psychic most of the time so hulls tend to get refitted a lot. Every ship and base has a prefix serial number followed by the class name, which is straight out of which ever .txt file I use at the time except for the colony ships.

Auxiliay ships (transports, tankers, space yards etc) have "A" prefix followed by 3 digits, bases have a "B" prefix and 3 digits, Colony ships have a "C" preix and 3 digits, Stellar manipulate ships have "S" prefix and 3 digits (only if I'm playing against the AI), and combatants have no letter and 4 digits.

My colony ships are simply named "Rock Colony XXXX", "Ice Colony XXXX" and Gas Colony XXXX" where XXXX is the build type and generation: ## for normal colonisers, QB## for quick-built low cost colonisers, and LC## for the premium high speed light cruiser colonisers.

Like this:

A054 Titanium
B023 Oxygen
C003 Ice Colony 03
C004 Rock Colony QB01
S003 Cesium
0276 Chlorine

Somewhat complicated, but makes sorting a lot easier on the ships screen.

[ June 27, 2002, 17:30: Message edited by: CW ]