Shippy McShipface? Tell us how you decide on ship names for $4

When I'm in a carebear zone, I might opt for something poetic – like a Weathertight from MTG.

For serious spaceship business, I rename my ship to match someone from local, planting a seed of doubt and chaos in my opponent's D-scan.

I use code names for my ships: <3 letter ship make>-<some random digits><one letter sequence code >

where: <3 letter ship make> is <first Faction letter><first ship type letter><first ship make letter> <some random digits> randomly entered numbers from the keayboard of various length - depends on mood :) <one letter sequence code> if I have more ships of the same type/make from the same batch I reuse random number sequence and add next Latin alphabet letter at the end.

Examples: Gallente (space) shuttle no 1: GSS-16371A Gallente (space) shuttle no 2: GSS-16371B

Council Diplomatic Shuttle no 1: CDS-23712A

Caldari Destroyer Cormorant no 1: CDC-723457A Caldari Destroyer Cormorant no 3: CDC-723457C

And so on...

💡Fun fact - from CDS description: "Based on a decommissioned Pacifier-class CONCORD frigate, this swift armored transport is typically used by the Directive Enforcement Department to ensure secure transportation of VIPs and high profile political figures.

Most recently it has been utilized to carry members of the Council of Stellar Management to and from their bi-annual summit with the CONCORD Assembly in Yulai."

-If it's bombers I go for famous real life WW2 bombers like "Ye Olde Pub" or "Old 666".

-My capitals are all named after Black Ops Zombies maps, right now I own Der Eisendrache and Der Riese, since I'm a very new capital pilot I wanted to go for names that meant something special, something of my younger days for instance I thought, and back in the day the zombies mode in Call of Duty was "the thing" people would talk about in my school days.

-My industrial ships I name all the same based from a meme a friend sent me once, is a tattoo on some dude's fists that is supposed to read "HOPLESS ROMANTIC" but is so poorly made that it reads (or it does to me) as "EL HOPANESS ROMTIC" and the name was so dumb that it suck.

-For anything that I use to tackle since I live and hunt in Fraternity space (a mainly chinese alliance) I name my tackle ships/cynos "ice cream" in chinese. That way I can blend with the chiense residents whenever my chips show up on D-SCAN. To this day I'm not sure if it works....but sure hope it does :v

My naming convention swings wildly between to states: Completely unhinged cringe meme names and thoughtfully organized names.

For example, my Stratios that I blow up all the time is currently the "Beehive Mk.19", which denotes how many predecessors my current ship has had. On the other side, we have ships named "UwUcifer", "SpankiesFromDaddy", and "GluckGluck9000".

It depends. If it's a ship I hold dear and want to avoid blowing up with, it gets a special name. For example:

Otherwise, I try to play mind games with it. Since others will see the name on their D-Scan, I come up with names like "no pvp 2" (now you wonder what happened to "no pvp 1", don't you?) 😎

Or naming the Interceptor "taxi" to imply it's just passing through. Or a name that implies the Ferox is a rail-fitted doctrine ship, instead of a Blaster-fitted brawler. I have no proof that ever works, but I want to believe it.

Next level in a crowded local is to pick a name and rename the ship after them, so their allies may think you are them when spotted on D-Scan. Of course that only works as long as the person is also in local. But you would be surprised how little communication happens between members of bigger groups.

Speaking of D-Scan. I have heard stories of people practically chatting in wormhole space by continuously renaming their ships. How funny is that? :D