EVE General Discussion

So you feel like you own the ship. Since I am in FW with the Gallente, I always use GFDU then a name for my ship. I thought about using different names each time one went down, but figured I would soon run out of names. Some of the names I have seen for ships have been amusing, others well best not said.
It's a small feature that really has no real in game impact but it's a nice touch that CCP allows such a feature. So yeah, as you pointed out D-Scan. You see a few firetails on D-Scan, a few names you do not recognized but then there is one that you do..you know to fear this pilot as they know what they are doing. You might not have time to check zkillboard to see what your chances are...but if they stick to the same name for the ship, you remember it.

Mainly just personalisation for players.

Some uses:

1. Make it easy to organise your hangar - different names for the same ship can help you know the fit quickly

2. As a bluff for PvP - If you want to look like a noob but aren't, leaving your ship name with your character name can make you look incompetent and engageable. Then you melt the face of the guy that engages you

3. As a bluff - this one never works, but by naming your ship after a different ship you hope to disguise what your ship is on d-scan. Eg. Call a Svipul, a Coercer or something

4. Limit intel - just calling your ship anything so people who dscan don't know who is flying what

5. To send messages - "Join XYZ Corp", "Grr Gons", etc.

6. To know who owns which ships in SMAs, so you don't fly someone else's ship (or know to replace it if you lose it)

Probably others, but #1 is a good reason to have names.

If I don't want people to know it's me, then I rename my ship. This can be especially confusing for people hunting you in WH space. I often choose to not rename my alt's ships if I want to use them as bait as that suggests they're not very experienced.

Overall though it just allows you to personalise your experience, and indeed if you have say two Legions, one active and one passive, you can name them to indicate which is which as an aide to hangar management.

WH corps utilise the renaming function a lot by employing a unique naming convention so that friendlies can be identified (loosely) on d-scan. This, of course, can be abused :)

At times like this, i am reminded how vastly different my EVE experience is to so many others. RL has been rough lately but during my prime pvp time, I could easily lose 10 ships a night in RvB maybe more. Having replacements on hand is useful. Now I like the kestrel. It's a beautiful ship with a variety of fits. I go pure range and hit out to 80+ km or brawl and every point in between.

Now I have about 60 Kestrels fit for combat. 20 are close range brawlers with an active tank. 20 are brawlers with passive tank, 20 kite at range with a long point, 20 are extreme range. If I had to guess which is which out of the 60, I would go mad. Instead, each type shares a name. (thank you CCP for letting me rename a ship to the fitting name!)

Now realize Kestrels are not all I fly. Vexors... Range DPS, brawly with blasters, brawl with neuts, tankier for FCing, and more. Being able to name each ship let's me distinguish what I am getting into.

Now imagine you are a logistics office for a nul group. You have to have doctrine fits ready and up on contract. This means T1 and T2 fits for each doctrine plus some doctrines use the same hull but different fits, and you have to assemble them, put them on contract and keep spares. Being able to name each is vital. Yes the names aren't unique but Temp Art T1 vs Temp Art T2 vs Temp AC T1 helps.

So yes your hangar may be small but for some... Ship name is vital and it's more about organization than HMS Carebear.

Other people can see your ship name in:

- d-scan
- in-space brackets (if they enable it)

By default, your ship name is something like "Memphis Baas's Tengu", which means all they have to do is open d-scan to figure out what I'm flying. As indicated above, this can be good, or bad.

So I know which astero has been alive since astero's have existed, and which one is just a normal ship.

There are a lot of examples of a smart ship name being beneficial to the player or the fleet. But before that I should back up a bit. The name function is there for basic admin. Ships in hangar, and in your inventory--the ship name is the only way to keep track of whether it's an armor fit, or whatever else makes the fit unique. Maybe it's your higgs rigged Thanatos, I don't know.

That name field is added to data tables you encounter in space, and in things like Dscan prove beneficial to other players. You know the rules and so do I never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna turn around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye. Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.

So you can name your Hound Purifier

How would I know which one of my Legions in hangar is the neut fit, which one the missile fit und which one the cloaky fit if they had no names?

Excessively helpful if you run shared ships in a SMA or corp hangar, or have multiple doctrine fits of the same ship.

When there's a hangar with like 20 fitted procurers in it, it's good to know which ones are "t1 newbie mining procurer" which ones are "t2 tank procurer" and which ones are "bait procurer" without having to inspect the fittings for each one individually.

Or, you know "PvP lulVexor" and "ratting Vexor" etc. etc.

It's just a way to organize your ships