EVE General Discussion

I like names related to what they look like:

Rifter - Rusty Shiv
Tristan - Fat Boy
Thrasher - Iron Fish
Rupture - Unholy Nail Gun

Don't get me started on the phallic ships.

My ship names are generally pretty dumb. I named my Vexor Gertrude because she looks like a Gertrude.

Tengu - Starfire Eclipse: I wanted something inspiring, noble and a little bit bombastic. This is the ship I spend the majority of my time in, so it needs to have a cool name.

Falcon - Snowblind II: My original ECM boat was a Blackbird called Snowblind. I figured that Snowblind made sense for a ship that leaves you unable to "see" properly. The Falcon was merely an upgrade.

Noctis - Raven: The raven is a carrion bird, feeding itself off corpses, and it makes less sense as the name of a battleship than it does as the name of a salvage boat.

Hyperion - Mahadeva: One of the many names of Shiva - it made sense for a nigh-invincible ship that destroys all within its reach.

Nidhoggur - Black Sun: This is my carrier, so of course it has to have one seriously badass name or it'd be an injustice. The Black Sun is a mythological and alchemical concept with various different interpretations but mostly I chose it because it sounded dark, ominous and cool without being immediately threatening.

Hurricane - Saltwater: I named this after the Chicane song, Saltwater. No other reason. I just needed a name for a battle Hurricane and it was the first thing that came to mind.

Keres - Trollboat Mk. IV: This was my first test run of the TrollKeres, a ship that can reliably take your targetting range down to beneath the Keres' orbit-and-point range. I had the idea of using it as a PvP boat for the sole purpose of trolling people by rendering them unable to warp away for hours at a time. I never got to test it.

Stiletto - LAN WTF: A Stilletto I bought during a war with Aduro Protocol. At the time there was apparently something up with Siigarii Kitawa's network, and he kept blaming his terribad PvP skills on his faulty connection, so everyone in the merc corp I was with at the time decided to rename their ships to LAN WTF.

Basilisks - Arclight Saviour and Whitewater Reclaimer: These were named along the same lines as my Tengu, but with a slightly different "feel" to them.

Donkey Puncher.

Scam Wagon.

Tittyfish.

...I think I've made my point.

Edit: Stargate (IXL-R8)
heh... get it?

When I first started as an Amarrian pilot I got this idea about roleplay, so I named all my ship 'Empress' something, and then it just became a habit.

Harbinger: Empress' Fury
Coercer: Empress' Blade
Executioner: Empress' Kiss
Pilgrim: Empress' Whisper

And so on...

My shuttles are named like the titans so everybody fears me after I apear on dscan
btw. I now that the shiptype is on dscan. BUT the fear in the first moment ... all of them run!

My Nightmare is named Festina Lente and my navy 'geddon is named Igne Ferroque. I'm pretty smug about that.


nah really I'm no so good at naming things so I just goggle-FU for latin sayings/short phrases and slap one on I think is ~cool~.

I use either song titles - my Blockade Runner is called "Superfast Jellyfish" (from a Gorillazs CD), and a SB called "The Seldom Seen Kid" (an Elbow CD title) or I use a variation on the theme of Iain M Banks' 'Culture' ship names usually including 'Gravitas':

Wot? No Gravitas?

Gravitas Deficiency

and so on

Although I do have a BS called "Me, I'm Counting" which is also from a Banks 'Culture' novel...

We need more space so that we can use the proper length ship names Banks come up with - my favourite for a BS, which doesn't fit, is "I Said, I've Got A Big Stick", and number two would be "The Anticipation Of a New Lover's Arrival"

Edit - just remembered my Orca is called "The Dirty Projector" because the band of that name have titled a couple of CD's with Orca in the title (such as Bitte Orca, for some reason - even though they are American - where exactly is Temeculah, anyway?)

I plan to own a Navy Issue Exequeror called "Wait What?"

My mining ships are named functionally, example IM-004C: IM stands for "Ice Miner" (a mackinaw fit with optimal mining), 004 is account 004 - not that my accounts have numbers in them but with 4 monitors and 6+ accounts I need to quickly keep track of who is who and which window is what. So 004 is account 004 and I know right away it's the account on the monitor on the far left. And C means that I have lost at least 2 Mackinaws previously, on that account :) Of course having numbers in my ship names automatically makes people think I'm a bot but whatever. I'm never AFK for longer than it takes to take a weewee.

My other ships are given names that loosely describe their purpose.