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Your ship's name?
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GordonO
BURN EDEN
#81 - 2012-08-08 00:05:47 UTC
Buzzard - Casper, he was the friendly ghost
bomber - Stinky, he was Casper's mean uncle
Fenrir - Sand Crawler
drake - drakeula
Orca - Free Willy
Nightmare - Sleepy Head

... basically I name everything.. I need help...

... What next ??
Betrinna Cantis
#82 - 2012-08-08 00:24:06 UTC
I have a Nightmare named FreddyBig smile

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Betrinna Cantis
#83 - 2012-08-08 00:38:08 UTC
I have an Icehole too...(Mack)Lol

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Shameless Avenger
Can Preachers of Kador
#84 - 2012-08-08 01:27:43 UTC
I name mine after common celestials, deployables, etc. No need to offer free intel to the enemy's directional scan.

"This is the Ninja. He will scan you down; he will salvage your wrecks and there shall be no aggro"
Boston Bradley
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#85 - 2012-08-08 03:24:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Boston Bradley
My Nemesis has always been known as "DINGLE BERRY".

Due to the fact all Gallente ships look like some form of human excrement.
Urgg Boolean
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#86 - 2012-08-08 04:25:10 UTC
I haven't picked a meaningful name for a long time. Can't say I used any great historical events or literary ideas to help formulate names, but here they are some of my ships:

Combat Dominix: TrxR4Kidz - this was the first time I tried to come up with a coolish name.

Repper Domi: repXXorix

Ratlesnake fleet: 1) Fluffy Buny, 2) Good Ship Lolipop, 3) Mr. Bubbles, 4) Cupcakes

Thrasher: used as a salvage boat: Thrash Compacter

Cyclone : used as salvage boat: Recyclone

Orca : Willie

Fenrir : Uncle Fenrir

Hulk : Hulkimus Maximus

Mackinaw : Ice Pick (I'll have to change that now ...)

Rokh miner : onZrokhZ

Combat Machariel : Mach n Ch33z

Probe : SS Wimpestuous

Gila : inchO4te m4ss (cuz it has to be one of the ugliest ships I have ever seen)

Minmatar shuttle : sk33ter

Ammar shuttle : no plex onboard
Merovee
Gorthaur Legion
Imperium Mordor
#87 - 2012-08-08 04:28:13 UTC
Gothmog after someone I played with in ManKind. Good times.Cool

Empire, the next new world order.
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#88 - 2012-08-08 04:32:25 UTC
I tend to name combat ships with stuff lifted from various scifi novels, I use a lot of culture references normally lifted from here. Non combat stuff gets random names depending on ship function

For example
Noctis : Noctopus Prime
Caldari Shuttle : Tesco Value Badger (all shuttles get named Tesco Value ..racial hauler)
Probeing ship : Cartman

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

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Feyd's Survival Pack
Renturu
In Glorium et Decorum
#89 - 2012-08-08 04:54:20 UTC
A Sleipnir named Scooty Puff Jr.
And an Iteron Mk4 named Scooty Puff Sr. "The DoomBringer"

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Zera Kerrigan
The 420th Token
#90 - 2012-08-08 07:04:33 UTC
Betrinna Cantis wrote:
I have a Nightmare named FreddyBig smile


Best one so far. :P
Lojak 2501
Unitum Investigationis et Progressus
#91 - 2012-08-08 07:08:08 UTC
letly ive been drawing parallels between my ships and real world ships and names (mainly from german WW2)

named the nado "bismark"
the bombers have been getting been getting U boat names
my buzzard got the "767 awac" based on functioality
Bunnie Hop
Bunny Knights
#92 - 2012-08-08 07:08:57 UTC
Named mostly after Everquest and Dragonlance dieties or dragons.
Gillia Winddancer
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#93 - 2012-08-08 08:07:52 UTC
Only ship I really ever gave any longer thought on would be the Domi...it ended up becoming "Jagaimo ou"
Feer Truelight
#94 - 2012-08-08 08:40:32 UTC
Ship: Catalyst - Name: Noctis (fitted with 4 Salvager and 4 Tractor Beams). No Pun intended P

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Zane Echerie
Spelunkers Inc
#95 - 2012-08-08 08:42:15 UTC
I name all my incursus either Gawain or Sir Gawain or some variation thereof (The Green Sash for my dual-repper version) due to the giant lance and the green/blue color of the ship.

Usually it's based on the look of the ship, though sometimes I'll throw in something based on its function (e.g. Junkyard is my salvager ship, doesn't matter what ship it is)
Spectre80
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#96 - 2012-08-08 08:58:21 UTC
depending who are the enemy i am fighting. if its some alliance/corp i hate, my ships will be named mocking them or otherwise as offensive as possible, if im fighting just some random dudes my ships will be most likely named something from space or mythology.
Ned Black
Driders
#97 - 2012-08-08 09:12:25 UTC
I name my ships in hebrew because that looks so damn futuristic.

For instance

שלי אקדח את התחת שלך

Which according to google translate is "My gun your a*s"
Serena Serene
Heretic University
#98 - 2012-08-08 09:16:36 UTC
I try to choose somehow "poetic" sounding names for my ships. I probably end up naming them in silly ways, but well, hehe.
I'm also a sucker for alliterations.

Examples of shipnames:

Patient Pursuer (an Incursus)
Sorrowful Sawyer (a Catalyst)
Demure Doll (a Vexor)
Elmanketticks
In Fidem
Outsmarted
#99 - 2012-08-08 09:18:34 UTC
I only use song titles for my ships as a name.

Except one, my neut Bhaalgorn is called 'Endstille' .

The State will not fall. Join us. Fight. Conquer.

edit: disregard that, the state has fallen.
Roime
Mea Culpa.
Shadow Cartel
#100 - 2012-08-08 09:31:31 UTC
Zane Echerie wrote:
I name all my incursus either Gawain or Sir Gawain or some variation thereof (The Green Sash for my dual-repper version) due to the giant lance and the green/blue color of the ship.

Usually it's based on the look of the ship, though sometimes I'll throw in something based on its function (e.g. Junkyard is my salvager ship, doesn't matter what ship it is)


Hey :D

While in RvB, my piles of Incursii were named after knights of the round table, that hull is certainly not a fish of any sorts, but a lance-bearer!

I also forgot that I used to name blaster boats according to ancient Maori gods, but the only one I have left atm is a Mega named Ruaumoko- the source of earthquakes.

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