I can assist with Qing Dynasty naming, although to be fair, they don't really have a naming scheme to go for.
Still the current naming scheme in for Qing ship is both inconsistent with their naming scheme, and sometime don't even make sense in Chinese (Of which I am a speaker). Still, I understand this is far from the priority right now.
But it rather difficult to come up with a "naming scheme" since : (Quoting myself from the RtW forum, where I've edited a expanded Qing ship namelist)
The main issue with Chinese ship naming at that time is that ships are really not named based on their type. Ship names are generally picked based on certain particular meaning, and to an extent convey the ship's role. For example, the two ramming cruiser of the BeiYang Navy are named Chao-Yong(Exceeding Courage) and Yang-Wei(Display Might), where as cruiser have names like Zhi-Yuan(Reaching Far) and battleship like Ding-Yuan(Pacifying great expanse)(These are very rough translations since many of these terms are old Chinese figure of speech). Furthermore, ships ordered at similar time tends to be named similarly, regardless of type. This is why there are many xxxx-Yuan ships in the Beiyang Navy. There also seems to be no practice of naming ships after location and people as far as I know in Qing Dynasty.
But in anycase, should the team decide to go with a more appropriate naming scheme for the period, I can be of help. (Though someone with more knowledge in old Chinese is probably going to be even better)
Yes, you get the point.
As a local Chinese, I find that in this game, Chinese warship names are extremely wierd, some are even ridiculous.
Japanese Ship name list, and naming conventions.
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Yes, you get the point.
As a local Chinese, I find that in this game, Chinese warship names are extremely wierd, some are even ridiculous.
When I am free, I will make a list of suggestion.