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captain_obvious · « **Reply #2780 on:** January 25, 2012, 08:25:49 AM »

I've been naming mine after British nuclear submarine classes.
I'm running out of options now :/

Lionus · « **Reply #2781 on:** January 25, 2012, 09:08:28 AM »

Go for russian and yankee ones, hell, even japanese ones.

captain_obvious · « **Reply #2782 on:** January 25, 2012, 11:48:24 AM »

Yeah baby! Just got me a galaxy class. USS Upholder.

ACES_HIGH · « **Reply #2783 on:** January 25, 2012, 12:59:00 PM »

HMS Upholder doesn't seem right for a Galaxy, those diesel boats are rather small, aren't they, Why not Vanguard or something like that? Name it after one of the big bombers.

Killallewoks · « **Reply #2784 on:** January 25, 2012, 01:23:52 PM »

Have you thought of ~~Polaris~~? Idiot thats an American misslile system, I was thinking of the Resolute class and you've all ready done that.

Vampire class?

Tuskin38 · « **Reply #2785 on:** January 25, 2012, 02:06:47 PM »

I was naming all my Ships after Canadian Provinces, but then I hit a snag where the names were getting too long. I could have switched to cities, but I just decided to choose random names. i think I've renamed my VA Defiant and Prometheus 2-3 times. Right now my Modded-Prometheus is the "Normandy" (partly named after the area, partly after the ship in Mass Effect) and my Defiant (using the Sao Paulo peices) is the Barcelona. (Barcelona is a sister city to Sao Paulo)

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/595834703442418973/6575F74FA1773E46590DF7C69A0CF34FD0867D5E/

Quote from: Killallewoks on January 25, 2012, 01:23:52 PM

Have you thought of ~~Polaris~~? Idiot thats an American misslile system,

Plus there is already a ship class in STO called the Polaris

FarShot · « **Reply #2786 on:** January 25, 2012, 02:45:17 PM »

I'm sort of a poet at heart, and when it comes to the ship names, I prefer fanciful fluff like "Stars Ablaze" or "Azure Dawn".

captain_obvious · « **Reply #2787 on:** January 25, 2012, 03:17:35 PM »

Quote from: ACES_HIGH on January 25, 2012, 12:59:00 PM

HMS Upholder doesn't seem right for a Galaxy, those diesel boats are rather small, aren't they, Why not Vanguard or something like that? Name it after one of the big bombers.

I did consider Vanguard but it's just too cheesy. It brings to mind those awful novels set during the tos era.
Upholder goes quite nicely I think. Not to mention that the Upholder class subs were (are) rather bigger than quite a few nuclear subs!
They were all sold to the Canadian navy maybe 10-15 years ago as the Victoria class.

Joshmaul · « **Reply #2788 on:** January 26, 2012, 05:58:22 AM »

I have a tendency to name ships after people or places of interest to me. For instance, I have gone through five U.S.S. Adelbert Ameses (the first two were Miranda-kitbashes, the third was an Akira, the fourth a Prometheus and the fifth a Galaxy; the sixth will be the Odyssey), and am on my second U.S.S. Benjamin Butler (the first was a kitbash of the Constitution refit and its associates, the current is an Excelsior). My other ships include:

-U.S.S. Crowninshield (VA Defiant, named for the Boston Brahmin family I'm descended from)
-U.S.S. Lowell (Galaxy Dreadnought, the Massachusetts city I live in - and Butler and Ames are buried in)
-U.S.S. Redwall (Sovereign, for Brian Jacques' book series)
-U.S.S. Bernadotte (VA Galaxy, named for Folke Bernadotte, World War II Swedish diplomat and relative of the Swedish Royal Family)
-U.S.S. Tuolumne (runabout, keeping in the tradition of naming for rivers - in this case, a river that runs through Yosemite in my native California)
-U.S.S. Sarah Hildreth (captain's yacht, Benjamin Butler's wife)

1DeadlySAMURAI · « **Reply #2789 on:** January 26, 2012, 09:45:47 AM »

I name my ships after cute things. Fluffy Kitten and Teddybear are among a few.

Nebula · « **Reply #2790 on:** January 26, 2012, 09:55:48 AM »

I name my ships after science or Japanese ship names.

captain_obvious · « **Reply #2791 on:** January 26, 2012, 12:20:51 PM »

Gah! Yet another 436mb of patch to download!

majormagna · « **Reply #2792 on:** January 26, 2012, 07:08:57 PM »

I name all my ships after engineers of the early 19th Century-mid 20th Century, Watt, Trevithick, Stephenson, Gresley, Churchward... (Yes, rather railway-centric...) and I have the registries as dates of birth (Or as close to as possible).

For example, George Jackson Churchward was born on the 31st January 1857, but with STOs silly registry rules, I had to make the USS Churchward NCC-311857.

Tuskin38 · « **Reply #2793 on:** January 27, 2012, 10:18:02 AM »

For anyone who has access to the Test server, the Odessa and the Bortas will be up this weekend for testing without their models, they will look like a Sovereign and Neg'var respectively. They want to save the real look for the anniversary.

http://forums.startrekonline.com/showpost.php?p=3973155&postcount=135

Tuskin38 · « **Reply #2794 on:** January 27, 2012, 04:24:26 PM »

New Friday Screenshot

Finally replaced that ugly brown nebula

Dawg81 · « **Reply #2795 on:** January 27, 2012, 11:52:17 PM »

well im at VA but missing slipstream drive cause i cant spend the remaining 500 points anyone else having the same problem?
I name my ships after members of my family

FarShot · « **Reply #2796 on:** January 27, 2012, 11:54:32 PM »

I had that as well, but luckily I had two respec tokens available. Check one of the guys at the center of ESD.

Shadowknight1 · « **Reply #2797 on:** January 28, 2012, 12:15:01 AM »

Quote from: Dawg81 on January 27, 2012, 11:52:17 PM

well im at VA but missing slipstream drive cause i cant spend the remaining 500 points anyone else having the same problem?
I name my ships after members of my family

Wait, so you have to use every single skill point to get the slipstream drive???

Wow, several of the Dominion battleships that killed the U.S.S. Valiant. DS9's in trouble.

Joshmaul · « **Reply #2798 on:** January 28, 2012, 04:14:39 AM »

Our ships will be bigger than theirs. Dominion dreadnoughts? A trifle.

captain_obvious · « **Reply #2799 on:** January 28, 2012, 07:42:53 AM »

I like trifle

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