Ship Naming

Alec Turner · Nov 25, 2016

I haven't seen this mentioned on the forums (found out about it via facebook) but they talked about ship naming in last night's livestream!

https://youtu.be/eTBtnRlzX60?t=4807

Arubeto · Nov 25, 2016

Yeah, I am also surprised the forum didn't spontaneously break into celebrations when Zac mentioned this yesterday! It has been asked so many times that I'd think a lot of people should really be happy now!

Veeras · Nov 25, 2016

As much as i think the idea of giving your ship some personality is awesome. It is almost inevitable to not come across ships named "SS y0l0sWag#420" and the likes. So i'm a bit torn on this

Alec Turner · Nov 25, 2016

Arubeto said:
Yeah, I am also surprised the forum didn't spontaneously break into celebrations when Zac mentioned this yesterday! It has been asked so many times that I'd think a lot of people should really be happy now!

I know right?

I titled this thread "Ship Naming" but really it ought to be more like ...

Conch · Nov 25, 2016

also hoping they will make it that the station will call the first 3 letters of your ships name.

ECHO FOUR NINER INBOUND!!!

Macy · Nov 25, 2016

Cool.

My Asp Explorer "Columbus"
My Cobra 3 "Smuggler"
My Vulture "Killer"
My Sidewinder "Old Friend"

What can i call my Python?

babelfisch · Nov 25, 2016

Arubeto said:
Yeah, I am also surprised the forum didn't spontaneously break into celebrations when Zac mentioned this yesterday! It has been asked so many times that I'd think a lot of people should really be happy now!

That's not how it works. As soon as a feature gets implemented everyone jumps on them why they are wasting their time with such an unimportant thing. Literally nobody asked for ship naming (ever) and everyone expected them to work on cockpit cats (very desirable BTW). It's time they listen to their player base, otherwise the game will be dead in x because of y.

CMDR Zadian Lichtfrost · Nov 25, 2016

Ship naming, cool and nice and certainly something a lot of players want,

BUT I still haven't found the right name for my DBX.

cptdavep · Nov 25, 2016

Already have my naming convention sorted. All my ships will be named after animals which were sent into space. So my Asp will be "Laika" after the dog, my Python "Ham" after the Chimpanzee. I might add a bit more flourish like "Laika's Voyage" or "Ham's Revenge" or something. And I'm hoping we can choose (or buy?) fonts and text colours so I can use the same branding on all my fleet. CAN'T WAIT.

Martian Successor · Nov 25, 2016

I take it

is confirmed?

Alec Turner · Nov 25, 2016

Martian Successor said:
I take it http://i.imgur.com/GG6u5aF.gif is confirmed?

They're actively working on it. It might not be ready for 2.3 (jeez ... how hard can it be?) but Ed has seen ships flying around with names on their sides in the dev build.

Momoka Azuka · Nov 25, 2016

About time. Way to wait till I need to come up with 27 different names Frontier. Luckily I'm only missing 5 names atm so I could figure out what to name those.

Veeras said:
As much as i think the idea of giving your ship some personality is awesome. It is almost inevitable to not come across ships named "SS y0l0sWag#420" and the likes. So i'm a bit torn on this

I'm currently docked at an Orbis station named Cummings Dock in CD-86 4. Ships with silly names can't be much worse than that. I've said it before and will say it again, real world ships have silly names as well. I live in Miami. I see stupid names on boats every time I'm near a dock

Spacemarkl · Nov 25, 2016

With Ship naming will there be ship shaming? Like the CMDR flying the vessel called "Little " is an obnoxious griefer. Would that be against the forum rules? We're not naming the CMDR after all.

Robbeh · Nov 25, 2016

babelfisch said:
That's not how it works. As soon as a feature gets implemented everyone jumps on them why they are wasting their time with such an unimportant thing. Literally nobody asked for ship naming (ever) and everyone expected them to work on cockpit cats (very desirable BTW). It's time they listen to their player base, otherwise the game will be dead in x because of y.

Daww somebody needs a snickers.

Good to hear its finally coming, hoping they are not planning on making it another paid feature though!

babelfisch · Nov 25, 2016

Veeras said:
As much as i think the idea of giving your ship some personality is awesome. It is almost inevitable to not come across ships named "SS y0l0sWag#420" and the likes. So i'm a bit torn on this

I guess they are using the same rules already applying to CMDR creation, nothing would change in this regard.

Gully Foyle · Nov 25, 2016

Macy said:
Cool.

My Asp Explorer "Columbus"
My Cobra 3 "Smuggler"
My Vulture "Killer"
My Sidewinder "Old Friend"

What can i call my Python?

The Snake Plaskin

or Petey Python

CMDR Zadian Lichtfrost · Nov 25, 2016

Let's hope it's not like paint jobs and bodykits a paid store item. 2.5 € per name…

Martian Successor · Nov 25, 2016

Alec Turner said:
They're actively working on it. It might not be ready for 2.3 (jeez ... how hard can it be?) but Ed has seen ships flying around with names on their sides in the dev build.

Ah, ok. Thanks. Guess I'll tone it down for now in that case.

Nice to see that ...

... will be on the horizon at some point. Names on the sides of ships sounds awesome, can't wait

Gully Foyle · Nov 25, 2016

babelfisch said:
I guess they are using the same rules already applying to CMDR creation, nothing would change in this regard.

No SS Minnow then?

Batgut · Nov 25, 2016

Alec Turner said:
ships flying around with names on their sides

Oh wow, that's a nice feature I wasn't expecting! I figured names would just be something that shows up on the scan data.