[WS-Thunder]

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?

[Nico]

it's up to you, but naming them is way cooler

[Galemp]

Yeah, I'd much rather be fighting the SC Necris than the SC Cain 12. But I guess got away with it with the Sathanas.

[LtNarol]

Originally posted by GalacticEmperor
Yeah, I'd much rather be fighting the SC Necris than the SC Cain 12. But I guess got away with it with the Sathanas.

well who is going to name 87 Sathanas juggernaugts? not like they had better things to do

[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)

[Nico]

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.

[WS-Thunder]

Well, if you name every cruiser in a game, you tend to run out of names after a while.

[Nico]

why? you don't have to follow any naming convention, you can call a deimos, say, Santa Maria, and another one Anihilator
There's no way you can run out of names

[vadar_1]

Ive used 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.

[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...

[Alikchi]

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.

[Galemp]

Originally posted by Alikchi

Any state or province you deem appropriate
 

[vadar_1]

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...

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[Stunaep]

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).

food

GTD Mustard Jelly?
GTD Pork Chops?
GVA Steak?
GTC Bosch Beer?

[CP5670]

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

[Petrarch of the VBB]

You can name med ships after famous doctors:

Pare
Harvey
Vesalius
Galen
McCoy
Crusher
Bashir
EMH

etc.

[StarGunner]

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!

 sorry I'm not feling too well I'm stuck home sick, "snuf" "snuf"

[Nico]

"smashes Stargunner in the face"
don't go with me, it won't do you anything good. The Colossus is a jugg coz I said so
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?

[LtNarol]

Originally posted by venom2506
"smashes Stargunner in the face"
don't go with me, it won't do you anything good. The Colossus is a jugg coz I said so
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?

[an0n]