Guild Ship Names

[Grizzie]

Recently our guild had a small competition to choose a name for our guild ship.

I see that we will be able to change ship colours and various other cosmetic changes in the near future as well as add all the guild buffs etc as we climb the guild renown levels.

So my question is, are there any plans to allow guilds to name thier guild ship?

[visionary1977]

No offense intended.. but how would this change bring anything to the game..

so on 1 side I can call my guild airship "Pumpkin Rice Pudding Shed" or "Flying Ferrari!"

or on the other side.. the devs can use the time it takes to add in guild ship naming function to repair the bugs in game, or fix the lag, or create some new content, well anything but superflous fluff.

[Grizzie]

No offense intended.. but how would this change bring anything to the game..

No offence taken my friend

It was a just another way of individualising guild ships. I saw that the work the devs have taken to supply guild ships with new colours etc and thought it a nice touch to be able to name the ship too.

As you state it probably brings nothing useful to the game other than allowing guilds to personalise their ships and make them feel a little more "homely"

[ReaperAlexEU]

i'd like to see a ship name too. its a ship, it should have a name, and its our home, it should feel homely.

i also think there should be some work put into previewing the ship colours off the store, be it a fancy part of the ship show room, or just a rack of screenshots the dev's knocked up and put into a news article.

my google-foo has uncovered some screenies of the hull paints, but nothing for the internal.

and yes i hear the argument about other priorities, but personally i'd be happy to get ship names before the much anticipated druids. hell, i'd prefer ship named before half-elves and half-orcs (yes i know they are in testing right now, just explaining my preferences).

as for bugs, ask turbine about that, they will tell you a certain portion of their resource is always put aside for bugs, and some is put aside for new features to move the game forwards. so new features wont take away from bug fixing, that balance is already being taken care of.

[r3dl4nce]

/signed for ship names !!!

[Emili]

We also had a ship naming vote when the things came out ... I had planned a christening, bought flowers and a bottle ... unfortunately nothing ever came of voting on all those things suggested.

[Zadkiele]

I'd love to be able to name airships - I'd also love to be able to select the airships flying around the city and get the ship name as the target. Or at least the guild name

[visionary1977]

I understand the opinion, I was just ignorent that so many people wanted the ability to name there guild base something.. I am all for it if it can be slotted in somewhere as long as it doesnt effect much awaited content.

Hell you never know if they read this and then action it we could see a million NCC-1701s floating across the skys above stormreach :P

Expected possible favourites:

NCC 1701 (a-e)
Liberator
TARDIS
Death Star
Camelot
Last Homely House
Mileniam Falcon
The REAL portable Hole

Edit: forgot the obvious:

Black pearl
Flying Dutchman

[phalaeo]

Our ship is named the Flying F**k.

Personally, I'd love to see that emblazoned on the side, but I don't think that would go over so well.

[Memnir]

I'd like to be able to name the guild ship as well. Would it add anything huge to the game in terms of practicality - no. But it would add a great degree of immersion and fan service. After all, ships have names...

Be a nice touch, I think.

[Grizzie]

Our ship is named the Flying F**k.

Thank you, Phalaeo I have just pebbledashed my screen after reading your post with a mouth full of biscuit - best laugh I have had today...

[shores11]

No offense intended.. but how would this change bring anything to the game..

so on 1 side I can call my guild airship "Pumpkin Rice Pudding Shed" or "Flying Ferrari!"

or on the other side.. the devs can use the time it takes to add in guild ship naming function to repair the bugs in game, or fix the lag, or create some new content, well anything but superflous fluff.

Troll...

Great idea OP I like and we also had a vote in our guild and named our ship. It would be a nice addition to the game I think.

For me the game experience includes things like this.

[visionary1977]

Troll...

Great idea OP I like and we also had a vote in our guild and named our ship. It would be a nice addition to the game I think.

For me the game experience includes things like this.

How is that trolling.. I am careful not to offend people by putting across a different opinion to someone else.. which a lot of people on here would do well to replicate. I understand why people want it, just think there is a lot needed to be done before fluff comes before content.

[Jontas]

Ship names please!

And for those with little imagination, the SF series "Culture" by Ian Banks has a whole plethora of GREAT ship names.

Some examples:

• The Ultimate Ship II
• Flexible Demeanour
• Gunboat Diplomat
• Problem Child
• Uninvited Guest
• Big Sexy Beast
• Lapsed Pacifist

Regards,

Jontas

[phalaeo]

Thank you, Phalaeo I have just pebbledashed my screen after reading your post with a mouth full of biscuit - best laugh I have had today...

No prob, Grizzie.... I named it myself, so I can take full credit for your biscuit episode.

[RaidMR]

I guess ship names could be put right on the sides of the hull or it could come up at the airship ports, (e.g. "Would you like board <insert ship name here>?")

What I want to see is the ability to name the crew in the ship (dibs on calling the Captian "Jack Sparrow" ) and naming the bar-keep would be great to add some personality to the ship.

[Hollowgolem]

I'd like to be able to name the guild ship as well. Would it add anything huge to the game in terms of practicality - no. But it would add a great degree of immersion and fan service. After all, ships have names...

Ships already have names in-game! I could go get on Stomglory Bolt 1372 right now!

But seriously, I'd like for there to be a way for the ship names to be more visible if they do add them. Right now, the names only apply to locations where people show up on the Who list.

Some guilds have started unofficially naming their ships, which I think is a nice touch, and absent a mechanical means of making it official, sufficient, all things considered.

[Mockduck]

I think naming a ship is a key part of lore, after all, who doesn't name their ship in fantasy or real life? Yeah, it will have no impact in game, but having a dialogue box when I port saying, "Take me to the Fat Halfling" would be neat. I just like the idea of naming it. Hopefully it wouldn't be too much work to do if there was a decision to do it.

[KristovK]

First off, your guild airship DOES have a name, and no I don't mean that generic 'airship #xxxx' that you see on the Who list. When you buy it, you are told the actual airship name, I forget what ours was, mainly because I could give a..well..someone already named their airship that

And the Captain, First Mate, and all the crew hookpoints actually have named NPCs(or the dummy) when you use them.

I wouldn't mind if they gave us the ability to rename our airships to whatever we wanted, within reason naturally(ToS issues as well as copyright issues you know), but I won't be upset if they decide to do something else instead, like add new content, new races, new classes, update PrEs, fix bugs that have been around for 5 years now..you know, actually add to the working game instead of devoting time to something that has no actual effect on the game at all. And I'm sorry, but you folks talking about immersion and RP...5 years now...please, tell me where to find these things, cause I ain't seen em yet. Unless you mean the halfling who's father was a human and mother was an elf..or that whole drow from the Underdark thing..or that guy from the Enterprise...or maybe that other guy from Romulus...or did you mean that other person who's TARDIS malfunctioned? Airships for guilds are a convience/powergaming thing, they ain't for immersion and RP, go on and try to argue THAT one since all they give is..buffs that stack with everything, ability to port to any public area, 1 stop bank/mail/AH..and that's it. Unless there's some secret hold somewhere I missed that gives each guild member their own room, rooms for holding meetings with seating and tables, a trophy hall, and of course, a place to put statues/paintings of the fallen.

Right..didn't think so..on to asking Turbine to actually add stuff that improves the game then.

[MadFloyd]

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