We have a sexy fleet tool right here (http://77.108.135.2/dmwfleet/) that allows us to keep our list of ships up to date and keep track of our fleet capabilities. RSI will eventually provide such tools via their website, but right now the DMW Fleet Tool is our best way to track things.
However RSI will also (eventually) allow us to name our ships, so ships of the same type will bear different names and be a little more identifiable and personal to their owners. The DMW Fleet Tool also allows us to name our ships, which led to an idea for a Star Citizen Christmas Competition.
CompetitionSo here's the competition:
- Go to the DMW Fleet Tool, log in and NAME all of your ships.
- Make your fleet 'public' so that other DMW members can see the names of your ships
- We'll then vote for what members see as our best ship name, be they funny, ironic, cryptic, etc.
- We'll provide some in-game flair or something similar for the winner.
As an example, my Constellation Andromeda is called 'Ptolemy', for obvious reasons!
(whilst not exactly humorous, it's better than calling it 'Tealeaf')So, click on the fleet tool and give your ship a name!
Winners will be announced around Christmas once we have a vote set up for those fleets set to public.
What happens in case of duplicate names?
Quote from: Gorion;391970What happens in case of duplicate names?
Check the new 'Ship Names' page to make sure it's not already being used.
My ship was already named Honeysuckle, but for not so obvious reasons.
My first memories as child was exploring the Honeysuckle at the bottom of our garden. Sadly the honeysuckle didn't survive our play, leading to my first lesson in treading carefully while exploring new systems.
Perhaps we could add a short bio to the ships names.
Edit: True story
I'm quite liking 'The Banu Hammer' and 'MIS Daisy' so far!
P-72 Archimedes, Screwed, ... :-) nice
I named my Idris the "Indiana", after my daughter :) She was IVF and survived an incredibly risky pregnancy. She's tough as nails and will get there no matter the odds.
Quote from: Justin Tolerable;391986I named my Idris the "Indiana", after my daughter :) She was IVF and survived an incredibly risky pregnancy. She's tough as nails and will get there no matter the odds.
I really love that! I spoke to Jamoe about his name too. I just love that some people have got back story to their selection.
Quote from: Galatoni;391990I really love that! I spoke to Jamoe about his name too. I just love that some people have got back story to their selection.
Thanks! She was the happy culmination of a long and very sad story. As it happens, that year kicked off a whole run of amazing good fortune - so I bought my Idris and named it after her. Now all I need to do is build it in LEGO and I'll be set.
Found Login.
All done.
Professor Snugglesworth is pretty nice!
did this ever happen? I can't recall seeing a vote but then I haven't really checked :)
Quote from: Jamoe;394051did this ever happen? I can't recall seeing a vote but then I haven't really checked :)
Woops, you're right, we missed it. I was meant to do this but spent all of December down with illness, so I'll hold my hand up and say I forgot as I just wasn't online at all.
We'll try to revive this one and get a vote up. Thanks for the reminder! :thumbsup:
No worries, no one else remembered either :) I was pretty much offline over Christmas, figured I just missed it.
I remembered. I got so bitter that nothing had been done that I immediately said nothing at all to anyone.
(I forgot too.)
A short list is being drawn up of our favourites and we'll post a poll in the next few days.
Aaaagh! Forgot about this. My list is out of date.
A short list of names has been selected and we'll be asking everyone to vote for their favourites in a poll!
Quote from: Galatoni;394224Aaaagh! Forgot about this. My list is out of date.
Yeah, just updated mine as well.