# Do you have a convention for naming your ships? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [May 9, 2018, 7:41am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/do-you-have-a-convention-for-naming-your-ships/75184 "2018-05-09T07:41:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Ronnie\_Rose](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ronnie_rose/32/446230_2.png) [@Ronnie\_Rose](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ronnie_Rose)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 3:13pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/do-you-have-a-convention-for-naming-your-ships/75184/61 "2018-05-13T15:13:42Z")
I like Force Majeure. Which ship is that? I name my ships after American Indian tribes like the Cheyenne or Apache ---
**Author:** ![Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/uriel_the_flame/32/490165_2.png) [@Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Uriel_the_Flame)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 3:15pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/do-you-have-a-convention-for-naming-your-ships/75184/62 "2018-05-13T15:15:46Z")
Do you sexually identify as a military helicopter? šŸ˜› ---
**Author:** ![Wavemistress\_Moidel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/wavemistress_moidel/32/211447_2.png) [@Wavemistress\_Moidel](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Wavemistress_Moidel)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 8:27pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/do-you-have-a-convention-for-naming-your-ships/75184/63 "2018-05-13T20:27:27Z")
Get your hands of my Chinook, if you touch it again iā€™ll get my Apache to give your Sikorsky a damn good thrashing. [https://goo.gl/images/w7VeKc](https://goo.gl/images/w7VeKc) ---
**Author:** ![Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/uriel_the_flame/32/490165_2.png) [@Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Uriel_the_Flame)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/do-you-have-a-convention-for-naming-your-ships/75184/64 "2018-05-13T20:57:46Z")
Can your Apache deal with my Commanche though? šŸ˜ ---
**Author:** ![Corraidhin\_Farsaidh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/corraidhin_farsaidh/32/10994_2.png) [@Corraidhin\_Farsaidh](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Corraidhin_Farsaidh)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2018, 9:53pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/do-you-have-a-convention-for-naming-your-ships/75184/65 "2018-05-13T21:53:42Z")
You are clearly all doomed if someone brings Airwolf thoughā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![ISD\_Dorrim\_Barstorlode](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/isd_dorrim_barstorlode/32/361083_2.png) [@ISD\_Dorrim\_Barstorlode](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/ISD_Dorrim_Barstorlode)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 3:25am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/do-you-have-a-convention-for-naming-your-ships/75184/66 "2018-05-14T03:25:47Z")
I only have one ship, and itā€™s named Thread Locked. ---
**Author:** ![Gadget\_Helmsdottir](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gadget_helmsdottir/32/374037_2.png) [@Gadget\_Helmsdottir](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gadget_Helmsdottir)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 3:51pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/do-you-have-a-convention-for-naming-your-ships/75184/67 "2018-05-14T15:51:12Z")
Nice. šŸ˜„ I was wondering what caused this thread to be locked. Took a few to figure out that it wasnā€™t. ā€“Gadget says , Well Played ---
**Author:** ![Nunosh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/nunosh/32/378366_2.png) [@Nunosh](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Nunosh)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 4:00pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/do-you-have-a-convention-for-naming-your-ships/75184/68 "2018-05-14T16:00:46Z")
Too much quafe? Lol ---
**Author:** ![Gaius\_Mileghere](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gaius_mileghere/32/258417_2.png) [@Gaius\_Mileghere](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gaius_Mileghere)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 4:17pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/do-you-have-a-convention-for-naming-your-ships/75184/69 "2018-05-15T16:17:01Z")
all my ships are named Shippy McBlastboom. ---
**Author:** ![Wavemistress\_Moidel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/wavemistress_moidel/32/211447_2.png) [@Wavemistress\_Moidel](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Wavemistress_Moidel)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 4:31pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/do-you-have-a-convention-for-naming-your-ships/75184/70 "2018-05-15T16:31:59Z")
Ivā€™e got Merlin for that and itā€™s magic. ---
**Author:** ![Gneeznow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gneeznow/32/138237_2.png) [@Gneeznow](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gneeznow)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 1:00am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/do-you-have-a-convention-for-naming-your-ships/75184/71 "2018-05-16T01:00:07Z")
Yeah, I name them depending on the clone Iā€™m supposed to be in when flying it, crystals, slaves, asklepians etc. ---
**Author:** ![Brewlar\_Kuvakei](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/brewlar_kuvakei/32/422694_2.png) [@Brewlar\_Kuvakei](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Brewlar_Kuvakei)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 1:18am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/do-you-have-a-convention-for-naming-your-ships/75184/72 "2018-05-16T01:18:49Z")
Naw, I just let the macro pick them, the note pad document it pools from is 45mb so it must be a dictionary and more. ---
**Author:** ![Eternal\_Montage](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/eternal_montage/32/425678_2.png) [@Eternal\_Montage](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Eternal_Montage)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 3:28am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/do-you-have-a-convention-for-naming-your-ships/75184/73 "2018-05-16T03:28:11Z")
Yes!! I only name cloaky ships and force recons, everything else I generally try to make as unnoticeable as possible on d scan. I have a Curse named ā€œUnspokenā€ I think thatā€™s my most clever ship name. ---
**Author:** ![Apolline\_Mireille\_Dufour-Roux](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/apolline_mireille_dufour-roux/32/286578_2.png) [@Apolline\_Mireille\_Dufour-Roux](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Apolline_Mireille_Dufour-Roux)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 9:23am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/do-you-have-a-convention-for-naming-your-ships/75184/74 "2018-05-17T09:23:12Z")
I normally donā€™t name my ships anything special (just the ship name). The only special thing I do is add tags to the ship if they require special fitting implants (genos, +CPU or +PG implants). ---
**Author:** ![Jacques\_Dubois](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/jacques_dubois/32/169549_2.png) [@Jacques\_Dubois](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Jacques_Dubois)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 11:24am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/do-you-have-a-convention-for-naming-your-ships/75184/75 "2018-05-17T11:24:06Z")
I use a format such as ABC-D for pretty much all my ship names. The purpose is to make the name easy enough that I can tell what it means at a glance, but obscure enough that anyone picking me up on D-Scan shouldnā€™t be able to decipher it. Given that explaining the codes would give away what they mean, it would defeat the goal of security-through-obscurity if I were to give actual examples. šŸ˜› ---
**Author:** ![Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/uriel_the_flame/32/490165_2.png) [@Uriel\_the\_Flame](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Uriel_the_Flame)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2018, 9:20am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/do-you-have-a-convention-for-naming-your-ships/75184/76 "2018-05-19T09:20:08Z")
Aside of my earlier post about wh ship naming I also share these: CEO alt: - Most ships: **0.1% corpTAX** - Haulers: **Corporate Transport** Trade alt: - All ships: **Other peopleā€™s ISK** For my main and some cases for alts I simply choose a name that fits the ship or the character or is somehow relevant. For the rest of altsā€™ ships I simply use the ship name or a part of it (like simply ā€œShuttleā€ for all types of shuttles instead of the full name with the racial extension). ---
**Author:** ![FraznoFire](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/fraznofire/32/190717_2.png) [@FraznoFire](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/FraznoFire)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 7:35am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/do-you-have-a-convention-for-naming-your-ships/75184/77 "2018-05-20T07:35:15Z")
lets see here, my Imicus is called Explory II (the first one died) my iteron V is called Trucky my venture is called Miney i think you get the idea ---
**Author:** ![zandayus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/zandayus/32/69731_2.png) [@zandayus](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/zandayus)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 11:55am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/do-you-have-a-convention-for-naming-your-ships/75184/78 "2018-08-01T11:55:28Z")
all my frieghters first names are Conestoga. ---
**Author:** ![Gregorius\_Goldstein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gregorius_goldstein/32/11133_2.png) [@Gregorius\_Goldstein](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gregorius_Goldstein)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 12:00pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/do-you-have-a-convention-for-naming-your-ships/75184/79 "2018-08-01T12:00:49Z")
Obvious Bait ---
**Author:** ![Kipsley\_Caton](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/kipsley_caton/32/498532_2.png) [@Kipsley\_Caton](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Kipsley_Caton)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 12:14pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/do-you-have-a-convention-for-naming-your-ships/75184/80 "2018-08-01T12:14:58Z")
Iā€™m from Australia so for a while I was naming all my ships after Australian cities. The Melbourne, The Darwin, etc. My fighting ships I name after Australian animals, so I have the ā€œRazorbackā€ and the ā€œFeral Catā€. Lol. My mining ships are all named ā€œFortescue Miningā€ as itā€™s a major mining company in Western Australia. [Previous page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/do-you-have-a-convention-for-naming-your-ships/75184.md?page=3) [Next page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/do-you-have-a-convention-for-naming-your-ships/75184.md?page=5)