Naming ships (please hear me out)

@spoopyshep
It's gonna be fun to decifere what dirty words a crew can come up with by using the first letters of the words ...

I think it would be saver to just have Rare make available several ship names and you can choose. Availability of "better" names for higher level pirates perhaps.

This has been a request since what before alpha or something.

I prefer to name my ship myself.
Just make it with the same censors as pet names.

Otherwise they wont be relevant to you or your crew.

I want to name my ship Tornado.

@spoopyshep

You are missing one of the biggest issues: You describe the ship as mine/your, while it is ours.

Who decides upon the name? They can simply make a filter for the naming allowed. The problem is that most people, just like you feel like it is their ship and want to be the one to name it. This can cause friction within crews, etc.

@CotU42 the captain - i.e. the person who 'starts' the boat, yeah?

Or it's just a thing in the ship customization chest that anyone on the crew can use.

This has been suggested a lot but at least you are considering some of the challenges. So I'll give you a plus for that.

@cotu42 said in Naming ships (please hear me out):

@spoopyshep

You are missing one of the biggest issues: You describe the ship as mine/your, while it is ours.

Who decides upon the name? They can simply make a filter for the naming allowed. The problem is that most people, just like you feel like it is their ship and want to be the one to name it. This can cause friction within crews, etc.

I see no difference with this and any other part of the ship customisation in that regard.

What if names were unlocked just like hulls, sails, etc... ? and known ship names, like The Silver Blade, The Ashen Dragon or The Killer Whale, were some of the options unlocked when you complete a full set... Which would have the benefit of rewarding collectors.

An alternative to who selects the ship name could be proposed names and allowing other crew members to vote whether to accept it. Will it cause friction? Maybe in some open crews but so does anything else.

@chenzo01 said in Naming ships (please hear me out):

@CotU42 the captain - i.e. the person who 'starts' the boat, yeah?

There is no such thing as a captain in this game. Who is the captain? Who started the ship? Each crew member is a full fledged member and nobody has more or less rights than any other. We never had a captaincy update.

Crews can be assembled at the same time in a menu and all spawned in at once at the tavern, the original crew might not even be part of the crew at any point in the game because they left and were replaced.

@realstyli

Yet it is the most prominent aspect that is an issue, naming the ship is simple and could simply be added. Why would they not have added it yet? It was part of the captaincy update goals I believe that was shelved.

They have a profanity filter for the chat and is easily created, limiting our options of input is easy enough or giving us premade names etc. I don't think that this is the main problem that is stopping them from adding it.

I think the issue is that people still see the ship as their own and not as a group asset. Therefore naming it would be far more drama and a source of conflict within the crew than other cosmetics. Name of the ship is way more personal and I bet many will always want a specific name... which is why I think they are holding back on adding it. They don't want to add even more friction areas to crews.

Me personally don't mind that much, just add it and have us deal with the bickering or just assign random names to the ships already, which in my opinion would be already an improvement.

@cotu42

I think the issue is that people still see the ship as their own and not as a group asset. Therefore naming it would be far more drama and a source of conflict within the crew than other cosmetics. Name of the ship is way more personal and I bet many will always want a specific name... which is why I think they are holding back on adding it. They don't want to add even more friction areas to crews.

I think you're right in that that's how Rare sees it. Which is why I made the suggestion of voting on ship names. Open crews are often fickle, I've seen them fall apart over much less, but I think regular crews are generally civil enough to work it out among themselves.

@glannigan said in Naming ships (please hear me out):

I’d be totally happy if they just had randomly assigned names like the Shipwrecks.

This would be a fine compromise

man me and my crew were talking about this the other day and personally i think this would be awesome.

@spoopyshep As cool as naming our ships would be, it's probably not the best idea. Even with all the censors in the world people still come up with some pretty heinous gamer tags and pet names.

The problem with the poor name choices is already fixed. Pets. people can name their pets and there is a filter in place already. if anything the pets fine tuned their algorithm for the ship names. I would love ship names and I think names and set designs to those names we set would improve the crew dynamic. open crews can work it out themselves. everybody moves away from those after a few try's anyway. the xbox LFG, discord servers, or any other method of crew finding is much more civil. while a name voting system could work I think it should just be another option in the shipwright for people to agree on. even the person to create the ship from the menu could pick the name.
HOWEVER
I truly believe this all would be fixed and included into a Captaincy update. at this point we need something like this. I'm sure they have thought a lot about is since it was supposed to be their FIRST update to the game. but here we are 3 years later. plz rare. you could fix so many complaints in one big Captaincy update.

Cpt. Treefitty of the HMS PvpMCpvpface

@spoopyshep said in Naming ships (please hear me out):

@daringclarky Wait, there are pet names? If there are pet names then why not ship names? What's stopping them?

Didnt you know you can name your pets? Well if they do the same as ship names, same censors etc it would be fine. Just have it in the ship customisation chest and within range and let the crew fight over a name.

@spoopyshep said in Naming ships (please hear me out):

There seems to have been some confusion in what I was saying. By 'piecing together words' I mean that there would be loads of premade words (like cutlass, lucky, dove, gull, silver) that you could select to make up part of the name.

All i care about is naming my ship Tornado.

I couldnt do that with your system.
I could call my ship Torn but there isnt a word thats just 'ado'.

So i think it would be better to just name a ship like you would a pet within range of the ship customisation chest.

It would let you name your ship anything you want within reason and would be treated like any other cosmetic.

Yeaaaah... if pets can get named. I really want to see ship naming get done. This has been shelved for too long.

It's so depressing on a galleon to look at the blank board where a name would go. . .

-Amendelwyr, Captain of The Blighted Drake

@glannigan said in Naming ships (please hear me out):

After you hit a ship with a cannon ball it should even play the same introduction as approaching a shipwreck.

For both ships.

But only after you it hit with a cannonball.

That way you know your enemy!!!

And it won’t effect anyone wanting to be sneaky or get the drop.

what?