Seems a little overstated when everyone has a spaceship!I am going to name my spaceship "Per aspera ad astra!"
Per aspera ad astra is a Latin phrase which means any of the following: "Through hardships to the stars", "A rough road leads to the stars" or "To the stars through difficulties".
Or how about,Mine will be called "the screaming fireball of tortured agonising death" right up to the point I slam into the side of the station, then it will be subtlety renamed to "barely salvageable junkpile of debris."
This process may repeat itself many, many times.....![]()
Seems a little overstated when everyone has a spaceship!![]()
Butterbottom.
I used my best ideas in this thread first.
the name of my ship ?
ORCA
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If you can own more than one ship, will you be able to name each one, or will the ship name travel with you?
Hello all,
This is the revised Ship Naming proposal taking into consideration the feedback we have received, keep it rolling!
Ship Naming
- A ship can be given a name by a commander
- A ship name can only be registered at a reputable space dock
- There is a fee to register the name
- Names are not unique
- Although ships have unique registration numbers that can be shown
- Ship names can be changed using the same procedure
- By default a profanity filter is applied to all ship names (separate from chat filters) “starring” swear words out
- More words can be manually entered into the filter if desired by players
- Players can turn the filter off if they desire
- Further filtering can be applied on a ship by ship basis (regardless of whether the profanity filter is on or off) to hide offending ship names from the player resulting in their registration only being displayed from then on
- Additionally a player can report another ships name if it is offensive and have the option to hide it afterwards
- Players with multiple reports against their ships name will be flagged for review and may result in name removal and bonus reset
- As long as the ship is not destroyed, a named ship earns a bonus to a commander’s reputation over time
- This additional bonus is applied to the commander’s reputation values globally whilst he/she is piloting the ship
- Both positive and negative reputations are affected (i.e. the bonus exaggerates the reputation of the commander)
- News feed bulletins will reference named ships with high bonuses to reputation, highlighting accomplishments achieved by them
- Pilot names and unique registration numbers can also be used to further identify ships if need be
- Some missions and events may require minimum/maximum bonus thresholds to trigger
- Bonuses are capped to a small fixed percentage so as to not completely skew a commander’s reputation values
- This bonus is never shown to the player
- Changing the name of a ship resets the cumulative bonus to zero
- When a ship is destroyed it loses some of its built up bonus when replaced
- Reputation bonuses can never be less than 0%
- There is no player driven second-hand ship trading planned for initial release
- Second hand ships are created by the game and come with randomly generated names that the player can either keep or pay the fee to change as above
- New ships come with no such name preregistered
- Second hand ships have no bonus applied