Ship names

[kadanis]

Ok call me a little lazy for not reading all the forums but was just thinking..

I can understand naming your character, but just think it would be nice not to be able to give the ship a name,
that dosnt mean of couse i dont want the ships named, just that rather then let players have the right to call their ship USS Carebear or L33t101.

Think it would be an idea to have a list of ship names in a database or somthing to choose from when naming the ship, and if an account gets cancelled for say four months then that name would need to be reallocated back to the list.

Just thinking it would loose some from the immersion if strangly named ships started appearing. I for one wouldnt want to be doing any missions with the captain of the USS Crazyfreakedoutrubberchicken. :)

[JerryC]

The problem you encounter is if the game takes off like WoW, the system for automatically naming ships would have to be fairly robust. Even so, I personally want to be able to name my ship, and if some kid names his ship the U.S.S. Pwnzer. Then so be it.


Ok call me a little lazy for not reading all the forums but was just thinking..

I can understand naming your character, but just think it would be nice not to be able to give the ship a name,
that dosnt mean of couse i dont want the ships named, just that rather then let players have the right to call their ship USS Carebear or L33t101.

Think it would be an idea to have a list of ship names in a database or somthing to choose from when naming the ship, and if an account gets cancelled for say four months then that name would need to be reallocated back to the list.

Just thinking it would loose some from the immersion if strangly named ships started appearing. I for one wouldnt want to be doing any missions with the captain of the USS Crazyfreakedoutrubberchicken. :)

[kadanis]

I want to be able to name my ship to, and yeah i understand it would take an awful lot to have a list of names, just thought it would be a good idea...just wishful thinking on my part :)

[Foxstab]

I'd try to go for a more canon name.
http://startrekresolution.wdfiles.com/local--files/start/DedicationPlaque.jpg

[liebkraft]

I too would like to be able to name my ship, but problem will be that all the real good names will be taken within the first five minutes the game launches. And in Star Trek the Captain also gets a ship without being able to name it. Either way there's a positive and a negative aspect of the whole thing.

[sabrebh]

USS Crazy Horse

[walltar]

USS Noob killa - NCC 1337 Rockz

Oh no just kidding i hope there will be some mechanic that will encourage normal and canon ship names.
And i hope GMs will be removing that names.


And what about USS Binary - NCC 1100101 :D

[Cheesey3000]

They should put in a system like in lotr (lord of the rings) online where you could only choose certain names and it wouldnt let you choose something stupid

[boydyma]

search function can be your friend too! you should use it sometimes! you might even be surprised at the results!

at the end of the day i dont know if there are even 10k shipnames in the whole ST universe for federation OR klingon... player made shipnames will HAVE to be allowed, but they must be moderated, support tickets for morons incorporated... tie it in with some sort of character flames, (nuke some XP or prestige or bridgecrew. or even the ship involved... but once again it needs to be moderated. carefully...

but end of teh day search function.

[ob1klone]

I sure most of you have probably seen the interview Jack gave to MMORPG.com an Gen-Con. But for those who haven't, he announced that we will not only be able to name our ships, but also, give them there registry number. :D

[Captain_Intrepid]

I wonder if there's the possibility of a randomizer for names if a player doesn't want to have to decide on the ship's name, and to be able to rename the ship when a better name comes to them.

[demyan12]

maybe if you really wanted to name your ship, you could make a suggestion and get it approved by some moderator.

[JSM3050]

Mr. Emmert said that players will be able to choose character and ship names as well as ship registry numbers. My guess is that player names, which can be a lot more varied than canon ship names, will be used to identify individual ships (i.e. Capt. John Smith's Ship) and the custom names and registry numbers will be just more fun things for us to play with (i.e. The U.S.S. Columbus NCC-1492).

[Saladin_Class]

USS SATAN NCC-666

how about USS Boobyprise

gonna be a few of those

[JSM3050]

USS SATAN NCC-666

how about USS Boobyprise

gonna be a few of thoseConsidering how much everyone here seems to agree that people with horrible ship names are priority targets, maybe we can point them out to the rabid PvPers in exchange for letting our own mining operations go unopposed.

[Silverspar]

Considering how much everyone here seems to agree that people with horrible ship names are priority targets, maybe we can point them out to the rabid PvPers in exchange for letting our own mining operations go unopposed.

CoX was pretty avid and aggressive towards people that put offensive names on their characters, I have little doubt the same won't be here, if not an outright ban of the person doing so. I've already got the name of my starship in mind as well as the exact registration *look's through the ten year old paper stack of the old Last Unicorn games stuff*

[KL0k]

hahaha, good idea :D

but its a hard one,..

on one hand, it would kill the Pwnerz and L33t ships with a namelist to choose from, and would be reasonable, since its not "your ship" in starfleet, its just "you in command" of that ship.

on the other hand, i would love to fly around in my ship with the name i chose. ("USS BREMEN" :D)

[JSM3050]

CoX was pretty avid and aggressive towards people that put offensive names on their characters, I have little doubt the same won't be here, if not an outright ban of the person doing so. I've already got the name of my starship in mind as well as the exact registration *look's through the ten year old paper stack of the old Last Unicorn games stuff*Never played CoX but I'm glad to hear it. Creative names are fine, even if they go against canon a bit. I wouldn't really be bothered if I saw the U.S.S. Truth and Reconciliation or U.S.S. Andromeda Ascendant fly past. I will, however, spray paint a massive bull's-eye on the U.S.S. 1337h@x0rz.

[Silverspar]

Never played CoX but I'm glad to hear it. Creative names are fine, even if they go against canon a bit. I wouldn't really be bothered if I saw the U.S.S. Truth and Reconciliation or U.S.S. Andromeda Ascendant fly past. I will, however, spray paint a massive bull's-eye on the U.S.S. 1337h@x0rz.

That could easily be reconciled by just forcing a particular naming code. After all, I don't recall a single ship witha number in it's name, and there is no registry with letters in it, except in the case of the NX (which is experimental) or NCC and then after that only the designation of A through Z if it's not the first ship to bear that name in the Federation (which is I guess how Paramount dodged the bullet on the numbering problem from the first Enterprise in ST:ENT to the first Enterprise when the Constitution class launched).

I am still curiosu if the Enterprise E will be in service still or not. 30 years, plus an additional 7 since her launch, she would be 39 years old by the time ST:O happens, so I would presume that the E, if it hasn't been destroyed, was decomissioned and sent to mothballs and a new Enterprise is out.

[Nishido]

Names for ships are actually pretty easy to come up with. But you know that the one you really want either won't be in a preconstructed list, or it'll already have been taken by seomeone else (who didn't have the name in their head until they saw it in the list). Therefore I'm glad we can name our own ship. I will however immediatly attack any klingons I see with a ship called Ridge'Head'69 or anything else similarly retarded. Those kind of names just take you right out of the entire experience.

[Silverspar]

Names for ships are actually pretty easy to come up with. But you know that the one you really want either won't be in a preconstructed list, or it'll already have been taken by seomeone else (who didn't have the name in their head until they saw it in the list). Therefore I'm glad we can name our own ship. I will however immediatly attack any klingons I see with a ship called Ridge'Head'69 or anything else similarly retarded. Those kind of names just take you right out of the entire experience.

I'd never say it would take you out of the experience, but I just say it would be distateful.

[JSM3050]

I am still curiosu if the Enterprise E will be in service still or not. 30 years, plus an additional 7 since her launch, she would be 39 years old by the time ST:O happens, so I would presume that the E, if it hasn't been destroyed, was decomissioned and sent to mothballs and a new Enterprise is out.I'm pretty sure that the Sovereign-class is still in service. The Excelsior-class lasted at least a century, if not more, as did the Miranda-class.

[Silverspar]

I'm pretty sure that the Sovereign-class is still in service. The Excelsior-class lasted at least a century, if not more, as did the Miranda-class.

I don't doubt the Sovereign class itseld is still in service, since Jack did talk about working to get a Sovereign, which I will undoubtedly be doing (my favorite ship out of them all). However, my question was the Enterprise-E if she was still in service, decommissioned, destroyed or what? I know the crew would either have retired or died by then. I guess that will be relevant information come the time of the actual timeline to be shown.

[Vicelance]

One of the things I asked in another nameing thread was how the game could stop people from using the -A,B,C,D, ect. to have the exact same name as another ship or simply spelling it a bit different such as spelling Enterprise with a Z instead of an S, though I hope Enterprise or it's variants will not be allowed.

[Admiral_Perseus]

That could easily be reconciled by just forcing a particular naming code. After all, I don't recall a single ship witha number in it's name, and there is no registry with letters in it, except in the case of the NX (which is experimental) or NCC and then after that only the designation of A through Z if it's not the first ship to bear that name in the Federation (which is I guess how Paramount dodged the bullet on the numbering problem from the first Enterprise in ST:ENT to the first Enterprise when the Constitution class launched).

I am still curiosu if the Enterprise E will be in service still or not. 30 years, plus an additional 7 since her launch, she would be 39 years old by the time ST:O happens, so I would presume that the E, if it hasn't been destroyed, was decomissioned and sent to mothballs and a new Enterprise is out.

Remember that in Nemesis, the Enterprise rammed the Scimitar and lost half her bow section. Add to that the remaining hull was all shot up and she had no warp dive, so I'll be surprised if the "E" is still in service

[Silverspar]

Remember that in Nemesis, the Enterprise rammed the Scimitar and lost half her bow section. Add to that the remaining hull was all shot up and she had no warp dive, so I'll be surprised if the "E" is still in service

Umm, the Enterprise lost it's bow completely. However, you obviously skipped out on the ending since the ship was in dry dock for at least six months of repairs. She was not decomissioned, she was refitted.

[Typheron]

The USS Enterprise (constitution class, kirks ship) was 40 years old when she blew up over the gensis planet and due to be decomissioned.

several re-fits had re-built her over the years (and the E is seen udergoing one at the end of nemsis to repair her).

So its entirly possable that the E would be 37 years old and still in service, although perhaps nearing the end of her service life.

[Silverspar]

The USS Enterprise (constitution class, kirks ship) was 40 years old when she blew up over the gensis planet and due to be decomissioned.

several re-fits had re-built her over the years (and the E is seen udergoing one at the end of nemsis to repair her).

So its entirly possable that the E would be 37 years old and still in service, although perhaps nearing the end of her service life.

Does not answer possibilities. There are ships far older that are still in service in the Federation by the time TNG rolled around, however, there are still quite a lot of other possibilities. Furthermore, according to STENT, the 26th century, the Enterprise J is about, which means that within the next 100 years, five more Enterprises will have been built, that is basically one Enterprise for every twenty years.

One of the scariest things though, the first Enterprise was the only Enterprise that was actually had a long life to be ordered to be decomissioned. Every other ship that bore the naem Enterprise has either been destroyed or lost. The A version, which is suspected of jsut being another renamed refitted Constitution class, was the only oen decomissioned that supposedly survived, but one of Shatner's novels declared Kirk flew the ship into a star.

The Enterprise B was destroyed, under classified circumstances according to my STTNG RPG book, the Enterprise C was destroyed defending Khitomer from a Romulan attack and D was destroyed due to w arp core breach. So that makes me wonder, given the prestigeous histroy of destruction for hte Enterprise, how the E was destroyed, or if she is actually going to make it to be decomissioned hehe :p

[Typheron]

Im not trying to answer possabilities, what does that even mean anyway, could you clarify your responce so i can respond to it?

*edit* too add to the origional topic, i would like to be able to name my ship, but i am unsure about giving it a number, somethign says the numbers 1,7,0 & 1 would appear a lot. Also ill be pulling any ship name of my own from The Culture ship name list, as there all quality.

[Silverspar]

Im not trying to answer possabilities, what does that even mean anyway, could you clarify your responce so i can respond to it?

The answer was already in the post on possibilities, such as destruction or other scenarios.

[Typheron]

alrighty, but im not saying she survived, im only giving a viable reason she would still be in service in referance to her age (as implied in the post and mentioned by several other people).

Im more inclined to agree with your opinion on the subject, Enterprises blow up, its more dramatic that way especially if its doing something Heroic.

[sanfordrg54]

Everyone talks about getting a "ship". Do you think that the Soveriegn Class Enterprise type of ship will be available at the outset? Every MMO has a leveling and grinding system to build up rank, and I am sure this one will also. You will probably start with a small ship, win battles and be promoted. Can you imagine a universe only of major starship of every race class. This game will be difficult to develop do the innumerable nuances of the treliverse. There is going to be stiff competition from Bioware and Lucasarts MMO Knights of the Old Republic online (KOTOR-online). I bet many of you will opt for light saber swinging force powered Jedis over creating your own Capt Picard type character.

[Silverspar]

Everyone talks about getting a "ship". Do you think that the Soveriegn Class Enterprise type of ship will be available at the outset? Every MMO has a leveling and grinding system to build up rank, and I am sure this one will also. You will probably start with a small ship, win battles and be promoted. Can you imagine a universe only of major starship of every race class. This game will be difficult to develop do the innumerable nuances of the treliverse. There is going to be stiff competition from Bioware and Lucasarts MMO Knights of the Old Republic online (KOTOR-online). I bet many of you will opt for light saber swinging force powered Jedis over creating your own Capt Picard type character.

Welcome to the conversation of about several threads ago :p We know this, in fact Jack has already stated that you start out with a small ship and work your way up to a bigger one.

[sanfordrg54]

Welcome to the conversation of about several threads ago :p We know this, in fact Jack has already stated that you start out with a small ship and work your way up to a bigger one.

I haven't been on for some time. This is what I expected and did not see anything about this fact last week. Unfortunately unless you sit on this forum reading posts you can miss something, and this is to be expected.

[blarneystone]

My ship name will be The Great Gig in the Sky. A nod to my favorite band, and a cool name for a ship :p

[Er-Murazor]

I think that there should be a name pool for ships and registry numbers. This will keep people from having the same named ship, and having A-Z of the same name of ship at the same time will not work. They have that system so that a new ship can have the same name as an old, decommisioned or destroyed ship.

The name pool would especially be good for the Klingons and other alien races so that they could have a truly alien name for their ship.

Also, with everyone getting a new ship every once in a while, will the names transfer to the new ship or will you get a new name with the new ship?

[relichunter]

I just remembered another name I'd like to use for an Alt. Ship (provided I decide to make an Alt.)

The S.S. Essess

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[Silverspar]

S.S. Essess was in Top Gun :p

[relichunter]

S.S. Essess was in Top Gun :p

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[KL0k]

hot shots :D

[relichunter]

hot shots :D

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[JHauck]

U.S.S. Mandela

U.S.S. Vonnegut

U.S.S. Exeter

U.S.S. Damascus

I use these in my fan fics at "Star Trek: New Worlds", mostly Legacy-Class ships, designed by Galen.