Author Topic: Dev Request: Help us come up with ship names.  (Read 9605 times)

Offline tigersfan

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Re: Dev Request: Help us come up with ship names.
« Reply #45 on: January 14, 2014, 04:04:31 pm »
Do you need any more ship names?

It can never hurt.

Offline Misery

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Re: Dev Request: Help us come up with ship names.
« Reply #46 on: January 16, 2014, 09:22:09 am »
Gratuitous Space Battles did that, or something similar at any rate, and I always thought it was really dumb. No one names ships like that. We always name them with single names.


Yeah, sometimes those can generate some really.... stupid sounding things.

On the other hand...  sometimes it can come out like how it often does in Starbound so far.  Some of the weapon names in that can be dumb, but then you also get weapons like the "Screaming Crunch-Squisher" or "Badass DudeStabber", which are my 2 favorite finds so far.

If those arent good examples of why this type of naming is great, then I dunno what is.


Also, someone suggested "AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH" as a ship name earlier in the thread.  I support this name choice as well.  I use that name for game saves sometimes.


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Re: Dev Request: Help us come up with ship names.
« Reply #47 on: February 03, 2014, 01:07:11 am »
We can't have anything that is copyrighted though.

You can't copyright a name, really... :)

Enterprise
Liberator
Serenity
Challenger (wait, that's two space shuttles in one never mind)
Just Another Nameless Ship's Mind

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Offline Lokarin

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Re: Dev Request: Help us come up with ship names.
« Reply #48 on: February 09, 2014, 12:00:38 am »
Can't go wrong with self-referential mythology:
DoomBot, FireEsper, TriangleShip, Neutered Gate, SpaceWhip, Mark V, Journey to Perfection, (which sounds like a luxury liner, honestly).

Typhon's Peak, Hellwroth Eclipse, Flawless Nether, Bathymetrous (a reversal of previous titles)


And of course, scathing irony:

Beautiful Interface, Volumous Humour, Miracle Font and ElvenBoot

Offline Foundryguy

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Re: Dev Request: Help us come up with ship names.
« Reply #49 on: February 09, 2014, 04:56:32 pm »
Carrion- A kind of fast attacke that deals progressive damage to targets.
Kali- As the name implies, this unit would possibly sacrifice allies (or enimies, maybe) to deal extra damage.
Yami- Yami means "Dark" in Japenese, so it could blind opponents, disrupting their movement, or even having them target allies?
Azathoth- The Old God at the center of the universe, could be a fleet capital ship, big guns, or make units it kills into AI War style "zombie units that attack with impunity.
Surt- Norse fire god, could use AOE attacks, dealing burn damage along with them.

A few names and concepts to fit them, after seeing this up a few weeks after buying AI War, I am very interested to see how and where this title goes.

Offline shrikey

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Re: Dev Request: Help us come up with ship names.
« Reply #50 on: February 18, 2014, 02:19:28 pm »
Just in case you still don't have enough  :P


Harlequin
Shrike
Ethereal
Hadrian
Celene
Reaver
Hestia
Totem

Offline junker154

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Re: Dev Request: Help us come up with ship names.
« Reply #51 on: February 18, 2014, 08:21:01 pm »
I just write some down from the top of my hat.

Nautilus
Romolus
Remus
Automator
Deltron
Star Haze
Deus
Kyuss
Avon
Accuser
Astra
Black Cobra
Luna
Distemper
Exodus
Fantomas
Kamchatka
Misfit
Sula Bassana
Hedon
Tomahawk
Verma
Swoon

Some are them may appear dumb but at least I contributed in some way.

Offline halfnuts09

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Re: Dev Request: Help us come up with ship names.
« Reply #52 on: February 20, 2014, 02:54:54 am »
hey if this is still alive...

viper
stinger
triton
hellbore
frey
magistrate
abolisher
doomicus
stryker
gundra
creeton
gemini
carbonator
torrent
yarris
hydra
deathring
zodak