I'm just curious as to what you like to name your ships. Do you just give every ship of the same type a generic name. Do you ahve a unique name for each ship? Do you not bother at all? Trust me, I think this thread will prove more fascinating than it sounds...

Now, it may sound a bit anally retentive, but I like to give very ship I construct (unless its something like a troop ship that won't be around for very long anyway) its own unique name. Playing the Terrans, I would usually call my ships 'TNS *Namehere'. TNS stood for Terran Naval Ship, after an older game I play called Conquest: Forniter Wars, in which Terran vessels have the prefix TNS.

However, I switched to using TAS (which I assume stands for Terran Alliance Ship) after I saw 'TAS Explorer' and 'TAS Maker' in the second campaign mission.

I also give each ship type I create a class name. For example, the Sabre class corvette. For each new game I play, I would use whatever names I could think of for each class (resuing ones I had used in past games, or names of ships that had since been decomissioned or destroyed), starting with whatever the class name is (as such, my first Sabre class ship would always be the TAS Sabre). In the same vein, I usually call my inital survey ship TAS Earth, TAS Terra or TAS Sol.

So yea, in short, when I'm playing as the Terrans I give each ship I build or otherwise recieve a unique name with the prefix TAS. The first ship of each respective class takes on that classes' name. I was thinking of prefixing the names of my ships with ARS, ARV, ASV or ASS when I started playing the Altarians, but I lost interest in that when I found the tiny hull was messed up so nothing would attach to it properly.

What about you? How do you name your ships?