EVE General Discussion

The only slang I accept and use is the proper name for the Dominix.

WAR POTATO.

If any of you are wondering why I posted this thread it has to do with Lore, player made lore. These names are what WE, capsuleers, call our hulls. Much like veterans talking about their ships, planes and vehicles throughout time and space. Those who remember and look back talk about things in a different vernacular than the layperson would. How would we talk about our experiences in a few hundred years of immortal capsuleer life? What would we have seen and felt in our times as pod pilots? The destruction? The joys, the sadness of defeats? Would these be meaningful in an immortal life? Would they be relevant?

Many people during war times throughout history have raised beer or spirits, made love and done everything they could because tomorrow they might not return.... We have become exempt from this reality even though we can thrust ourselves into combat and kill or be killed countless times. So have we become exempt from such a reality as well?


These ships are our lore life. Connected to them as much as we are to our arms and legs.... literally... how do we call them? How do we look upon them? When even our own arms and legs become expendable? When our bodies become so much more than a meat popsicle.... Tossable like our beer cans and water bottles on some god awful land fill of time....



Our stories are our own... immortal and neverending... burned into our collective psyches..... forever.... we are EVE!!! Will YOU be remembered?!!

You know, the Gallente Federation flag looks quite similar to the Roman flag; why not add "SPUD" under the emblem on the Dominix to make it even more similar?

Some would also call it, the smelly upside down boot.

Personally I call that ship 'Das Boot'. Yes, I know it means 'The Boat', but it does look like an upside-down boot so bilingual bonus ho!

Fed Navy Comet - PoPo

Don't forget about the Longbow (cormorant) and the Meat Catapult (Bifrost)
Mallers are commonly known as Dropships.

What I am actually surprised in is that not a lot of ships, other than the domi, have really gained wide spread notoriety in their naming conventions. Theres some good ones in here gentlemen, and gentlewomen as well I hope, so keep them coming. It makes me wonder if it is the current meta in terms of the fits of specific ships that get named internally by alliances, think Wrecking ball or Slowcat, rather than specific ship names that end up being more prevalent and thus getting changed more as CCP nerfs/buffs and changes them over the years.

Typically ships/hardware/etc seems to be what it is and doesnt change functionally over the same "hull" type. I think this could be attributed to the quickness of gaming situational changes versus real life counterpart development speeds lagging in general and usually making a clear distinction between two different subsequent models or needs.

As we know game changes occur much faster than real life so its a nice way to condense the time frames, much like breeding bacteria in a lab to look for mutations can occur much faster than with say even mice or rabbits let alone mammals or humans. I shall ponder these things more.

Thanx for all the input so far.

yikes

Thrasher - Trasher
Rifter - Riffer
Rupture - Space Drill