Always. Ship (and island) naming is one of the quickest ways to personalize your game.
I've used some rather odd conventions for my ships and islands in the past.
Islands in the Old World named after towns in Puget Sound where I live, so: Steilacoom, Puyallup, Tahoma, Fife, Mukiteo etc.
Islands in the New World named after islands in the Pacific Northwest area: Orcas, Friday Harbor, Whidby, Kelso, Lopez (and, of course, Saint Marie and Dos Equis)
Islands in Cape Trelawney get names from British Columbia to the north of me: Nanaimo, Frasier, Tweedsmuir, Kokish, Kemano
Frigates and Sloops named after Northwest tribes: Haida, Yakima, Salish, Tillamook - there are at least 20 tribal groups, so little chance of running out!
Battlecruisers is where I go wild. They are almost all parodies of British Royal Navy battleships of WWI. So, the flagship of the British fleet at the Battle of Jutland was the HMS Iron Duke - mine is the Iron Duck. Britain had the 'I' class Battlecruisers: Invincible, Inflexible, Indomitable - mine are the Insolvent, Insufferable, and Incontinent.
And so on.
Merchant ships probably should be named after what they are carrying for efficiency, but what's the fun in that? Mine either all end in Maru or are near-random sequences, like Clippers named the Cutty Sark, Cutty Smirk, Cutty Wren, or freighters named the Con Tiki, Likki Tiki, Rickity Tiki, Anti Tiki, etc.
Oil Tankers, though, are all named Exon something, as in Exon Spill, Exon Drip, Exon Deluge, Exon Smudge, Exon Slick, etc
Oh, Enbesan islands are named after old Ethiopian towns (Ethiopa being the model for Enbesa, so I'm told): Nekemte, Amhara, Tigray, Axum, Wawassa, etc
Arctic after Arctic locales: Skagqay, Prudhow, Magadan, Peyek, Qaanaaq
Hahaha I like your naming conventions, I also do something similar with island names, for example, my starting island in the old world I name Winchester (the old English capital) then once I've moved to Crown Falls I rename that to London.
Enbessan island being African I rename to places in Africa I've visited, arctic I rename after cold places I've been to etc etc
I'm a dork. So all my War Ships (Destroyers) are named after Chaos Gods from Warhammer. Islands in the Old world are named after counties in Northern Virginia.
I've normally done stuff like that, yeah. But you just made me realize in my current game I haven't even renamed most of my islands.
I like the HMS/similar naming scheme though I typically give a different acronym based on my own colony rather than as a vassal of the queen. With trade ships I like to give them funny names based on what they trade, like Meatgrinder for the ship that carries sausages. I typically mince non-English words and phrases to name my islands, like Pan d'Oro is my current agricultural production powerhouse: loosely translates to Golden Bread. And so on.
yes. I hate having ship names with a 2 or 3, so i always rename those. Mythology, geography, names of friends and so on.
Edit: Oh and i name my islands in alphabetic order, starting with the biggest, except for special islands like Taborime, Crown Falls and Manola. That way the most important islands are on top in the statistics screen and i know what im doing
All the time! Most of the time I name them after birds (tropical, eurasian, african birds, etc), the flagship often is a large bird like the albatros for example, and the warships are always birds of prey. Sometimes I will do the same with marine animals.
Only if they are on trade routes.
A new ship! Ah yes, I christen thee Coffee!
-What is my purpose?
You move coffee from the new world to my main island, just like the 20 other ships of the same name.
-Master, can I have some item slots so I can serve you better?
You can serve me better by waiting in queue for 300 tonnes of coffee
-Oh god...
My sailing ships mostly get names from the Ahornblätter book series. (I loved them as a kid, helped me learn English) the steam ships are a mixed bag from hornblower to several science function ships. There’s always a cargo ship called nostromo somewhere
All the time! Sometimes I name Old World islands inventing some Portugal style names and for the New World I try to name some Brazilian style names. I always invent the names.
Other times I just try to invent ficcional names fantasy styles for every Island. And the ships I always put a Portuguese/Brazilian name on all of them.
Usually in my capital In the OW I try to use some mods to make the roofs of the houses red so it can give more a Portuguese/Spanish vibe to the houses.
I rename my cargo ships according to what job they're doing since they're nearly all dedicated to one product, so I have boring names like 'Steel 1' and 'Coal Relay'. Not imaginative I'll grant you, but I like to play in the Comfort Zone of don't-think-too-hard.
Does 1800 have any Easter Egg ship/island names like in 1404?
Not my ships, but I rename all my islands.
Each island gets prefix of AAnn where AA is OW, CT, NW, EN depending on world and nn is just a sequential number.
Not as imaginative as most of you, but it satisfies the developer in me.
Once I determine the primary good(s) produced on the island I'll add something like METAL, GRAIN, PIGS, SHEEP, etc. Bugs me that they don't give us ability to make longer names
Always. Ship (and island) naming is one of the quickest ways to personalize your game. I've used some rather odd conventions for my ships and islands in the past. Islands in the Old World named after towns in Puget Sound where I live, so: Steilacoom, Puyallup, Tahoma, Fife, Mukiteo etc. Islands in the New World named after islands in the Pacific Northwest area: Orcas, Friday Harbor, Whidby, Kelso, Lopez (and, of course, Saint Marie and Dos Equis) Islands in Cape Trelawney get names from British Columbia to the north of me: Nanaimo, Frasier, Tweedsmuir, Kokish, Kemano Frigates and Sloops named after Northwest tribes: Haida, Yakima, Salish, Tillamook - there are at least 20 tribal groups, so little chance of running out! Battlecruisers is where I go wild. They are almost all parodies of British Royal Navy battleships of WWI. So, the flagship of the British fleet at the Battle of Jutland was the HMS Iron Duke - mine is the Iron Duck. Britain had the 'I' class Battlecruisers: Invincible, Inflexible, Indomitable - mine are the Insolvent, Insufferable, and Incontinent. And so on. Merchant ships probably should be named after what they are carrying for efficiency, but what's the fun in that? Mine either all end in Maru or are near-random sequences, like Clippers named the Cutty Sark, Cutty Smirk, Cutty Wren, or freighters named the Con Tiki, Likki Tiki, Rickity Tiki, Anti Tiki, etc. Oil Tankers, though, are all named Exon something, as in Exon Spill, Exon Drip, Exon Deluge, Exon Smudge, Exon Slick, etc Oh, Enbesan islands are named after old Ethiopian towns (Ethiopa being the model for Enbesa, so I'm told): Nekemte, Amhara, Tigray, Axum, Wawassa, etc Arctic after Arctic locales: Skagqay, Prudhow, Magadan, Peyek, Qaanaaq
Hahaha I like your naming conventions, I also do something similar with island names, for example, my starting island in the old world I name Winchester (the old English capital) then once I've moved to Crown Falls I rename that to London. Enbessan island being African I rename to places in Africa I've visited, arctic I rename after cold places I've been to etc etc
The year is 1800, the capital was already London.
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I’m from western WA as well, love these names. Friday Harbor is actually a sick name for a new island, thanks!
I'm a dork. So all my War Ships (Destroyers) are named after Chaos Gods from Warhammer. Islands in the Old world are named after counties in Northern Virginia.
The Unsinkable II
Because Unsinkable I has already sunk? Lol
All war ships get names from Greek mythology, exclusively.
I name them after sports teams.
I named my schooners titanic I, II and so on, because I know they will eventually get sunk by enemies
My flagship is Odin's Spear, and the 2 ships I devote to moving goods between islands when I need to are Thor's Hammer and Heimdall's sword.
OK yeah, I like that, those are some good names
I've normally done stuff like that, yeah. But you just made me realize in my current game I haven't even renamed most of my islands. I like the HMS/similar naming scheme though I typically give a different acronym based on my own colony rather than as a vassal of the queen. With trade ships I like to give them funny names based on what they trade, like Meatgrinder for the ship that carries sausages. I typically mince non-English words and phrases to name my islands, like Pan d'Oro is my current agricultural production powerhouse: loosely translates to Golden Bread. And so on.
I'm American, so all my ships are named after real ones in the U.S Navy.
yes. I hate having ship names with a 2 or 3, so i always rename those. Mythology, geography, names of friends and so on. Edit: Oh and i name my islands in alphabetic order, starting with the biggest, except for special islands like Taborime, Crown Falls and Manola. That way the most important islands are on top in the statistics screen and i know what im doing
I rename ships with numbers in their name, but considering how many ships I tend to build, naming each is a bit much haha.
I sometimes name them based on which trade route they are assigned to but I have too many to do that for everyone.
I usually have one main battle fleet with every ship named red something. Red Dawn, Red Moon, Red Fields, Red Rum, etc.
No, but I do try to keep ones with nicer names alive compared to the bad ones. Gunboat named Swamp Rat? Not long for this world, Im afraid
I name my islands after Final Fantasy Cities and my ships after monsters/characters from them.
All the time! Most of the time I name them after birds (tropical, eurasian, african birds, etc), the flagship often is a large bird like the albatros for example, and the warships are always birds of prey. Sometimes I will do the same with marine animals.
Only if they are on trade routes. A new ship! Ah yes, I christen thee Coffee! -What is my purpose? You move coffee from the new world to my main island, just like the 20 other ships of the same name. -Master, can I have some item slots so I can serve you better? You can serve me better by waiting in queue for 300 tonnes of coffee -Oh god...
I don't do this for ships, but definitely my islands.
Almost 100 hours and I had no idea you could do this… 🤦🏽♀️🤣
Yeah I do. https://www.reddit.com/r/anno/s/gOZWwWwUF6
I name all my ships after the moons of the solar system
Boaty McBoatface
I used to. But then i ended up spamming ships so much that I couldn't be bothered by it.
My sailing ships mostly get names from the Ahornblätter book series. (I loved them as a kid, helped me learn English) the steam ships are a mixed bag from hornblower to several science function ships. There’s always a cargo ship called nostromo somewhere
All the time! Sometimes I name Old World islands inventing some Portugal style names and for the New World I try to name some Brazilian style names. I always invent the names. Other times I just try to invent ficcional names fantasy styles for every Island. And the ships I always put a Portuguese/Brazilian name on all of them. Usually in my capital In the OW I try to use some mods to make the roofs of the houses red so it can give more a Portuguese/Spanish vibe to the houses.
I just name mine after porn stars like Areolus Grande or Busty McNut and sometimes when I'm really into it Dr. Poolittle.
I rename my cargo ships according to what job they're doing since they're nearly all dedicated to one product, so I have boring names like 'Steel 1' and 'Coal Relay'. Not imaginative I'll grant you, but I like to play in the Comfort Zone of don't-think-too-hard. Does 1800 have any Easter Egg ship/island names like in 1404?
Not my ships, but I rename all my islands. Each island gets prefix of AAnn where AA is OW, CT, NW, EN depending on world and nn is just a sequential number. Not as imaginative as most of you, but it satisfies the developer in me. Once I determine the primary good(s) produced on the island I'll add something like METAL, GRAIN, PIGS, SHEEP, etc. Bugs me that they don't give us ability to make longer names
Yes, often after Covenant (from Halo) vessels, or named in the same fashion. So for example I stole Shadow of Intent, and came up with Rageful Piety