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Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: WS-Thunder on April 02, 2002, 03:51:52 pm: Hey guys, Cain class cruisers are used very often as well as destroyers and other big ships. Do you guys usually name them each individually, or can you have just standard names or designations? Should I just leave them without names?
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: Nico on April 02, 2002, 04:14:23 pm: it's up to you, but naming them is way cooler :nod:
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: Galemp on April 02, 2002, 04:27:10 pm: Yeah, I'd much rather be fighting the SC Necris than the SC Cain 12. But I guess :v: got away with it with the Sathanas.
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: LtNarol on April 02, 2002, 05:03:25 pm: Quote
Originally posted by GalacticEmperor
Yeah, I'd much rather be fighting the SC Necris than the SC Cain 12. But I guess :v: got away with it with the Sathanas.

well who is going to name 87 Sathanas juggernaugts? not like they had better things to do :p
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: vadar_1 on April 02, 2002, 05:13:16 pm: Terran-Vasudan ships always need names, considering Terrans always have the "naming cerimony", I assume Vasudans would too, or else Terrans would give them names. Shivans however, are given the name of Terran designations, it helps you remember them, specially if they appear in more then one mission. However, it really helps the mission and the campaign if you give everything a name. Its not that hard really.

General rule of thumb is a craft should never have a number in it unless its part of a wing. Additionally, names should never be duplicated (exception of wing names), and the crafts type should never be its name... unless its a first encouter of an enemy vessel, or its a one of a kind allied vessel (Colossus, etc)
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: Nico on April 02, 2002, 05:23:02 pm: Quote
Originally posted by vadar_1
Terran-Vasudan ships always need names, considering Terrans always have the "naming cerimony", I assume Vasudans would too, or else Terrans would give them names. Shivans however, are given the name of Terran designations, it helps you remember them, specially if they appear in more then one mission. However, it really helps the mission and the campaign if you give everything a name. Its not that hard really.

General rule of thumb is a craft should never have a number in it unless its part of a wing. Additionally, names should never be duplicated (exception of wing names), and the crafts type should never be its name... unless its a first encouter of an enemy vessel, or its a one of a kind allied vessel (Colossus, etc)

yeah, for exemple, if they built another colossus, it would be called, say, GTJ SuckBadly, Colossus class juggernaught, just like you have the GTD Bastion, Orion class destroyer.
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: WS-Thunder on April 02, 2002, 05:42:09 pm: Well, if you name every cruiser in a game, you tend to run out of names after a while.
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: Nico on April 02, 2002, 06:06:06 pm: why? you don't have to follow any naming convention, you can call a deimos, say, Santa Maria, and another one Anihilator :D
There's no way you can run out of names :)
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: vadar_1 on April 02, 2002, 06:14:15 pm: Ive used alot of names in FC, you can get them from almost anywhere, from names of ancient gods, tribes, significant individuals, cities, food, elements, action words, almost any object, current ships, girlfriends, etc.
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: WS-Thunder on April 02, 2002, 06:25:32 pm: I currently have Ironhawk, Dragon, Titan, Red Claw, Black Claw, Annihalator, Death Angel. Now I'm starting to call ships Bob, Marvin, Bruce... :P
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: Alikchi on April 02, 2002, 06:53:02 pm: Jameson
Requiem
Argonaut
Soyuz
Any state or province you deem appropriate
Any famous military leader (I named a freighter the "R. E. Lee" for example)
Types of fish ("Snook")
Warhammer
Hunchback
Avarice
Virulence
Empire
Jasonian
Argon

Off the top of my head..just anything that's meaningful.
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: Galemp on April 02, 2002, 07:52:44 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Alikchi

Any state or province you deem appropriate

:nod:
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: vadar_1 on April 02, 2002, 11:58:35 pm: Quote
Originally posted by WS-Thunder
I currently have Ironhawk, Dragon, Titan, Red Claw, Black Claw, Annihalator, Death Angel. Now I'm starting to call ships Bob, Marvin, Bruce... :P

...
(http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/1999/19990611l.jpg)
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: Stunaep on April 03, 2002, 01:56:28 am: Quote
Originally posted by Alikchi

Any state or province you deem appropriate

Yup, I have the GTD Philadelphia as the flagship of the 9th fleet in my upcoming campaign (really soon, I only need to debug the missions).

Quote
food

GTD Mustard Jelly?
GTD Pork Chops?
GVA Steak?
GTC Bosch Beer?
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: CP5670 on April 03, 2002, 04:14:45 am: I basically use mythological stuff in my missions. Here is what I have for my campaign so far. (9 missions) A few are ships from the original campaign.

GTC Cocytus
GTC Thalia
GTC Metis
PCC Amycus
GTCv Diomedes
GTCv Parapet
GTCv Naxos
GTCv Warspite
PCCv Helicon
PCCv Nereus
GTD Minotaur
GTD Delphi
GVCv Sopedu
GVCv Astennu
GVCv Khepri
GVCv Hemsut
GVC Tenenit
GVC Khepren
GVC Mycerinus
GVC Unut
GVD Sekham
GVD Deshret
PCC Eros
PCC Hesperos
PCC Sinope
PCC Acantha
PCC Thyrae
PCC Leukothea
PCC Pirene
PCCv Coronis
PCCv Phobetor
PCCv Cypris
PCD Enceladus
PCD Hyperion
PCD Saturn
PCC Deino
PCC Neferhor
PCC Neith
PCC Renpet
PCC Mihos
PCC Sentiat
PCC Urthekau
PCC Ogdoad
PCC Mentur
PCC Harmau
PCC Nehebka
PCCv Qetesh
PCCv Heket
PCCv Amasis
PCCv Andjeti
PCCv Khenti
PCI Aswan
PCI Sindel
PCD Apophis
PCD Amenemhet
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on April 03, 2002, 01:11:30 pm: You can name med ships after famous doctors:

Pare
Harvey
Vesalius
Galen
McCoy
Crusher
Bashir
EMH

etc.
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: StarGunner on April 03, 2002, 01:29:39 pm: Quote
Originally posted by venom2506
Colossus class juggernaught.

It's not a juggernaught!, god dam! can't you all get it right it's a one of a kind ship! and it's gone!, and don't tray to mok me! the GTVA, is the same as the people you fight for! :mad:

:sigh: sorry I'm not feling too well I'm stuck home sick, "snuf" "snuf"
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: Nico on April 03, 2002, 01:43:10 pm: "smashes Stargunner in the face"
don't go :mad: with me, it won't do you anything good. The Colossus is a jugg coz I said so :ha:
If the project wasn't such a failure, they would probably build others, and so it would not be a one of a kind ship anymore. You know the very first orion was a... yeah! a one of a kind ship. Droofus, ever heard about prototypes?
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: LtNarol on April 03, 2002, 02:45:24 pm: Quote
Originally posted by venom2506
"smashes Stargunner in the face"
don't go :mad: with me, it won't do you anything good. The Colossus is a jugg coz I said so :ha:
If the project wasn't such a failure, they would probably build others, and so it would not be a one of a kind ship anymore. You know the very first orion was a... yeah! a one of a kind ship. Droofus, ever heard about prototypes?

:yes: :yes: :yes: :yes: :yes: :yes: :yes: :yes:
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: an0n on April 03, 2002, 02:57:19 pm: (http://community.the-underdogs.org/smiley/celeb/vindian.gif)(http://community.the-underdogs.org/smiley/celeb/vconst.gif)(http://community.the-underdogs.org/smiley/celeb/vcop.gif)(http://community.the-underdogs.org/smiley/celeb/vbiker.gif)(http://community.the-underdogs.org/smiley/celeb/vcowboy.gif)(http://community.the-underdogs.org/smiley/celeb/vsailor.gif)
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: LtNarol on April 03, 2002, 02:59:00 pm: Quote
Originally posted by an0n
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:wtf:
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: Galemp on April 03, 2002, 05:19:25 pm: Name your ships after the Village People! :lol:
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: untouchable on April 03, 2002, 05:43:02 pm: Quote
Originally posted by venom2506
"smashes Stargunner in the face"
"Picks up Stargunner's bloody corpse from the ground."
"Chuckles"
"Lets him fall back towards the soil"

(reminds me of the VBB :D)
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: Alikchi on April 03, 2002, 06:44:47 pm: Quote
Originally posted by an0n
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:headz:
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: StarGunner on April 03, 2002, 06:52:33 pm: "Before deth pulls out twin Buster cannon and lets her rip on Venom."

:snipe:
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: CP5670 on April 04, 2002, 02:07:40 am: I think the Colossus is actually more of a superdestroyer (based on briefings and stuff), but it does fit into the juggernaut category in terms of size and performance.

And, Stargunner, that original post was uncalled for.
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: Stunaep on April 04, 2002, 07:34:29 am: Quote
Originally posted by an0n
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:thepimp:
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: WS-Thunder on April 04, 2002, 02:09:18 pm: Vader, that rude comment defines the reason why I will be a millionar in a few years and you will be still sitting here, calling people that ask questions stupid to make yourself feel superior to them. Rude statements only make me grow stronger and fight harder for my future and asking questions is how I feed my brain more information so that I can complete this task. There's some food for thought.
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: StarGunner on April 04, 2002, 02:34:08 pm: Quote
Originally posted by CP5670
I think the Colossus is actually more of a superdestroyer (based on briefings and stuff), but it does fit into the juggernaut category in terms of size and performance.

And, Stargunner, that original post was uncalled for.

:sigh: Sorry I'm not feling too well I'm stuck home sick, "snuf" "snuf"

humf you all forgot to read the end of my original post :(
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Post by: Darkage on April 04, 2002, 11:12:07 pm: The big C fits into Juggernaut class....imho
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Post by: Kamikaze on April 04, 2002, 11:36:13 pm: Quote
Originally posted by WS-Thunder
Vader, that rude comment defines the reason why I will be a millionar in a few years and you will be still sitting here, calling people that ask questions stupid to make yourself feel superior to them. Rude statements only make me grow stronger and fight harder for my future and asking questions is how I feed my brain more information so that I can complete this task. There's some food for thought.

I really don't think anyone was dissing you for the question, we're very nice people you know :) (Okay fine, most of the time - but us moderators are angelic, genial people with good intention in our hearts :p) Vader was't making any rude comments about your question (as you can see he actually awnsered it) I just think he took your... joke too seriously.
So cool down :nod:
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Post by: vadar_1 on April 05, 2002, 12:16:18 am: Quote
Originally posted by WS-Thunder
Vader, that rude comment defines the reason why I will be a millionar in a few years and you will be still sitting here, calling people that ask questions stupid to make yourself feel superior to them. Rude statements only make me grow stronger and fight harder for my future and asking questions is how I feed my brain more information so that I can complete this task. There's some food for thought.

because of a PA comic? lighten up. And I helped him first, jeez :headz:
Title: hmm
Post by: TrashMan on April 05, 2002, 03:01:43 am: I would say that the Collossus is a Dreadnought! (have I written it right?)
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: Bishop Gantry on April 05, 2002, 11:44:43 am: Youd DO know that the collosus is just a big freighter they but some guns on:D

they should have made the Vasudan super carrier instead... alot better looking
Title: Re: hmm
Post by: CP5670 on April 05, 2002, 01:15:48 pm: Quote
I would say that the Collossus is a Dreadnought! (have I written it right?)

So one of the big ships is to be dreaded and the other should be juggled! :D (I know, lame pun :p)
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Post by: Stunaep on April 05, 2002, 01:20:31 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Bishop Gantry
Youd DO know that the collosus is just a big freighter they but some guns on:D

Guns? What guns?:p
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: LAW ENFORCER on April 08, 2002, 04:16:13 pm: Quote
Originally posted by CP5670
I think the Colossus is actually more of a superdestroyer (based on briefings and stuff), but it does fit into the juggernaut category in terms of size and performance.

And, Stargunner, that original post was uncalled for.

WOW! you got it! I had thought of that a while ago and am using it for my stuff! I didn't think anyone else would think of it!:ha:
I have Super Battle ships as the equivlent... I like to be diffrent :p
Title: Cruiser and capitol ship designations needed.
Post by: Fr3z3r on April 22, 2002, 03:14:59 am: OK, after all, you can name them some crazy... I can give you some Polish words that would perfectly fit as codenames ;)