Ship names...

[Jean Ribault]

27 minutes ago, maturin said:

Offensive ship names are a non-issue in my view. They can be dealt with just like offensive player names are now.

If you capture a ship called HMS Effurmom, you can just rename it. And the ship name can't be spammed in Global.

What if the capturer don't speak English?  Or whatever language the insult is in?  How would you know?

Edited February 9, 2018 by Jean Ribault

[maturin]

9 minutes ago, Jean Ribault said:

What if the capturer don't speak English?  Or whatever language the insult is in?  How would you know?

I mean... what you don't know can't hurt you.

Aren't you going to rename a captured ship called Dolboeb anyways?

[Jean Ribault]

Just now, maturin said:

I mean... what you don't know can't hurt you.

Aren't you going to rename a captured ship called Dolboeb anyways?

   Yeah I guess I am!

[Hethwill]

HMS Pastel de Nata 

for a Pickle

[Farrago]

I'd love to have ship names display in OW and battle but understand that would be complicated. So...

Google reveals numerous lists of historical and fictional ship names. Replace the crafting region field with ship names randomly assigned from this list when crafted. AI ships wouldn't have a name. 

[Hethwill]

15 hours ago, Intrepido said:

Devs said custom names would be very heavy for servers.

However, if we could pick up a name from a list of several hundreds of historical names of ships a bit more feel of customization would be achieved at a reduced cost.

That's how the Officer names were done when we had them.

And they remained the same throughout the career, the whole 10 lives.