Thanks Slayer!

My man got over excited looking at all the graphics card shininess and ordered a Zotac GeForce GTX 570 732MHz 1280MB last night. :) A steal at fifty quid more than the previous alternatives; we have slightly more cash than we do patience apparently. lol He's a greedy boy, but since we're not having to worry about a mortgage yet, it's all good.
But next time we're online and you're not busy, I'd still appreciate a hardware masterclass!

Bugger... I made a big reply just got deleted argh.

Anyways, go for the Asus far better value for money. It's also quite impressive. Personally I couldn't justify the price of spending that much on a graphics card at the moment, but then again the one I have is comparable to the Asus one. I reckon u can get a better deal somewhere else to be honest. Overclockers is a good site, but sometimes lacks good pricing. My card was mean't to be £239, but got it for £30 ;) Check out www.Ukhotdeals.co.uk and use the shopbot "type it in google" I think u'll find a better price and possibly a better graphics card. I'm quite a big fan of Geforce Gigiabyte Overclocked range, then again It's down to personal preference. If u want i'll talk u through the shaders etc on vent and what they do and take a wee look at cards with ya online at some point just give us a shout.

Hi Rickster:

I loved A Final Unity too! When I first bought it, I thought it was awesome...played it for hours warping to the corner of the map to fight some Romulan warbirds. The name of the publisher was Spectrum Holobyte if I recall. Even the graphics were pretty good for the time and the voiceovers were great since they were from the real characters.

The only mission I couldn't stand was the one with the organs/horns that you had to play and walk across the room...each organ would change the layout of the floor and only certain tiles would overlap. Wanted to pull my hair out!

Jamie.

Let's see...

Elle's tiny little Miranda wasn't named by her, but by its late previous captain, and was the USS Proud Moth because it was small, lightly armed, but still did its best.

Once she was able to name her own ships, she was made captain of the USS Richard Feynman, an Intrepid-Class ship... this poor vessel was destroyed in an altercation with the Borg, but a later Intrepid-R was commissioned to the same specs and christened the USS Richard Feynman II.

She currently flies the USS Into the Unknown, a Nebula-class science vessel.

She entered Starfleet to serve as a medical officer in person, and to discover new types of spatial phenomena as a captain, and her scientific bent is I hope apparent from her ship names ;)

She has recently been considering putting in a request for a transfer to one of the newly-developed D'Kyr Vulcan Science Vessels that Starfleet has been talking about in classified communiques, but she hasn't yet decided on an appropriate name.

Since I live in Vegas I'll be here. Unlike last year (when my old friend showed up with his wife) I should be free the whole time.

Great question! I also like seeing other people's responses.

My main (Sthyr, an Andorian) is a cruiser captain. His ships have all had names I considered to be cruiser-ey. Dauntless, Endurance etc. He generally captains the Assault Cruiser USS Kumari after Shran's ship in ENT. His occasionally used Galaxy-X is the Invictus ( which means Unconquered).

My secondary toon (Kel, a Bajoran ginger hottie) has had his ships all named after scientists. Currently he flies the refit Copernicus or the Nebula Archimedes.

My Caitian Tac (just hit Captain) names his escorts after Native American tribes. His defiant class is the USS Lakota.

I have a rarely used Orion who is very campy in his names. He's only LCR5, with the BOP Sa'ra Pah'Len. Soon he will be in the IKS Bet' Mid'Lah
His Boffs are also campy.. Brund Korgan (named after Brent Corrigan the porn star) and his only female boff is Alotta Fadgina.

Episode 170 - The Next Generation - "The Offspring" - 03/12/1990



Parts 2-5:

Found from the above link in the related videos section

Data creates a young gynoid, which he considers his daughter, "Lal". But a Starfleet admiral arrives demanding she be removed from the Enterprise. Guest star Hallie Todd as Lal.

Enjoy!

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My Main (Raanan Pyki) flies the USS Bucentaure. The Bucentaure was the name of Vice Admiral Villenueve's ship at the Battle of Trafalger in 1805 where Nelson was killed. Being a history major, most of my ships take their names from English/French frigates or ships of the line. My science is in the USS Pallas. The Pallas was the name of Alexander, Lord Cochrane's famous frigate, the Pallas. My tactical flies the Imperiuse, which is another of Lord Cochranse commands!...My klingong...bea Arthur, flies the IKS Gummer...Previously the IKS Betty White, IKS Golden Girl, IKS...you get the drift... My new klingon toon, Paula Deen, is currently flyign the IKS Ham and Icing.. because Paula Deen is vile and I love her so!

Not the IKS butter?

My Main (Raanan Pyki) flies the USS Bucentaure. The Bucentaure was the name of Vice Admiral Villenueve's ship at the Battle of Trafalger in 1805 where Nelson was killed. Being a history major, most of my ships take their names from English/French frigates or ships of the line. My science is in the USS Pallas. The Pallas was the name of Alexander, Lord Cochrane's famous frigate, the Pallas. My tactical flies the Imperiuse, which is another of Lord Cochranse commands!...My klingong...bea Arthur, flies the IKS Gummer...Previously the IKS Betty White, IKS Golden Girl, IKS...you get the drift... My new klingon toon, Paula Deen, is currently flyign the IKS Ham and Icing.. because Paula Deen is vile and I love her so!

My ship is the USS Minas Tirith

Why? I was watching the LOR: Return of the King just before I got my RSV.

Like the white tower my ship is painted all white, it can repulse great hordes of enemies and absorb lots of punishment. Well, that's the idea anyway. :)

Great question!

My science guy (Morro) is my main alt so I made him my vanity project. I named his ships after my astrological sign, Virgo (surprise, surprise!). As he grew in rank and got more ships I kept the "Virgo" name but added letter designations: Virgo-A, Virgo-B and so on. Two of my ships, the dreadnaught cruiser (USS Astrea) and the deep space science vessel (USS Spica) were variations on the Virgo theme, as Astrea was the Roman version of Virgo and Spica is the main star in the constellation. The ship I use now (the long range science vessel refit) I named Hermes, after the messenger of the gods (amd due to Morro becoming a Starfleet Ambassador - kind of a messenger himself)

For my tac guy (Wright) I made him a Starfleet Marine so most of his ship names have to do with Marine Corps base names or Marine history. However, 2 of my ships were named for gay Marines - the fleet escort USS Eric F. Alva and the dreadnaught cruiser Samuel Nicholas. His current ship is the USS Sting Ray, a tactical escort refit named after a Force Recon (the Marine Corps' special missions force) mission type.

Finally for my eng guy (Mackenzie), I made him Australian...well, technically his father was Australian and his mother was Betazoid. Anyway, his ship names are currently based on major Australian cities, with the final ship to be named after the continent itself.

Thanks for posting this question - it was very interesting to read other players' stories about how they came to name their ships!

Ooh, love this question! I always put a lot of thought into my ship designs and names.

My primary (VA Jack Harkness) always names his ships after things and people that were important to him. He now commands the U.S.S. Torchwood, but past ships included the Tyler, the Alonzo, etc. His first escort was the Garcon de Loyer (Rent Boy), because it seemed like a good name for an escort, and he thought it would get through the game's filters. (It did.)

My Caitian was a big, butch exchange student from the evil parallel universe, so of course his first ship was painted pink, and named the U.S.S. Sea Tiger, after the pink submarine in Operation Petticoat. He did not understand the irony of being given such a girly ship. He later had an escort named the Gaiman (after a favorite author), the Leviathan (because it looked a bit like a whale), and the Defiant-class U.S.S. Deviant (pronounced De-VI-ant, rhymes with Defiant). Oh, and then when he became RA1 and got his Prometheus class ship, he named it after me (@Propecius) sort of: U.S.S. Propetheus.

My liberated borg engineer has a Nebula class called the U.S.S. Nebulizer. His first ship was the USS Secondprize. His first science ship was the USS Britannic, after HMS Titanic's ill-fated sister ship, which served as a hospital ship for a while.

My science guy is naming all his ships after NOAA science vessels from the 20th and 21st century. Okeanos was his most recent, after the Okeanos Explorer.

Oh, and my Klingon (actually Orion)--who I don't play very much--has the IKS Barbie Fun Ship, again because I thought it would be a nice contrast to his gruff exterior. It's painted in pink and purple, as a ship with that name should be.

I could go on and on. But I won't. Obviously I love this topic!

I named my ships Hephaestion and Alexander. I've always seen my boyfriend as Alexander the Great, he can do anything, so in away I named my ship after who my BF is to me. I'm more like Hephaestion, I like being the right hand for my bf, the closet friend ect. I named my ships for a love story, that means a lot to me. Its a reminder of who I have in my life. I also have my Galaxy X the Aung San Suu Kyi named for a political activist in Burma. My Excelsior the Bucephalus after Alexander the Great horse. My Prometheus class the Olympias Alexander the Greats mother. There's my Nebula class the Hyperion. My deep space science ship is the Maleficent after my fave Disney bad guy. Finally there's the Bad Horse named for a character in doctor horrible sing-along blog. I plan to add the Lilith Sternin when the Delta Flyers come out.

Hey, thanks :) I couldn't get onto the Foundry to play with this during the downtime, but have had a go at it now.

The Foundry won't allow me to use "whole map" for my first transition to a custom map. The custom map has to be linked to a specific exit point on the social map. So I've had to set it up such that Admiral Marconi tells the player to go to one of the docking ring airlocks on the Promenade; when they get there, an interact button triggers the map change.

So, having seen many imaginative names for ships so far, I thought I would create this topic so we could tell the story as to why we named our ships what we did.

As for me, my primary toon's ship is the USS Robert G. Shaw. Named in honor of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the commander of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, one of the first African-American combat units. Not the first overall, but the first made up of Northern African-Americans.

Along those lines, If we can name our Delta Flyer shuttles, Mine will be the Higginson, named in honor of Reverend-Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a Unitarian Minister and commander of the first African-American combat unit, 1st South Carolina Volunteers, which was made up exclusively by freed slaves.

My Alt, a science officer, has a Nova-Class ship named the USS Endurance, named in honor of the ship used by Sir Ernest Shackleton for his 1914 Antarctic Expedition.

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Well on that score, as far as I'm aware, beside the fact that very few games natively take full advantage of an SLI set-up, as the load has to be spread between two cards instead of one there will always be an inherent, albeit minuscule, addition latency. There's also the problem of heat to consider; the more you put in your box, the harder it is for the air to move through it. So in theory one awesome graphics card will always be better than two. I was actually considering going to SLI myself, instead of buying a more expensive, new, graphics card when I upgraded last, but the b/f talked me out of it.

Hmmmm... You make a very convincing point. :)

I play Sims as well, although not as much as I used to.

When Sims 1 came out, I bought every exp pack, and I mean EVERY one! Out of them all, I liked "Hot Date" the best - still remember the "Create A Sim" free add-on that allowed you to make potential dates for your sim and import them into the "downtown" area. My crowning glories for Sims 1 was "Dive," a nautical-themed upscale restaurant (inspired by the 1993 Sarah Brightman album of the same name) and "The Brig," a military-themed gay bar. How did I make a gay bar, you ask? It was easy - for the entrances, I used men's rooms doors. That way, female sims couldn't enter. ;) It was kinda funny to see them try and enter, then stomp their feet and storm off when they couldn't...all except Old Lady Crumplebottom. I don't know how she managed it, but she always found a way to get in. Maybe she was really a dude? :lol:

When Sims 2 came out, I only picked up the basic game - I felt cheated. I had spent soooo much money on Sims 1, and now everything I had done was pretty much obsolete.

As for Sims 3, the only things I have are the Collector's edition, High-End Loft Stuff and Late Night. I probably won't pick up any more since I have a lot of other things on my gaming plate. One thing I did notice though - if you play "Late Night" using one of the other Sims towns and not Bridgeport, the vampire angle pretty much turns your town into "'Salem's Lot" :blink:

LOL No one likes a Sim with TOOO much autonomy.... LOL

Kinda like a misbehaving pet.... LOL At least you can always build four walls around them and make them starve or don't let them out of the swimming pool.... if they piss you off... LOL

They need to bring magic back to Sims 3. There is a custom mod out there for magic (which is nice) but it's not the same.

Kinda like Spore meets Diablo.... :D

That would make for a good diplomatic mission on STO.

Aid the planet is nice and quick which is good... but can get a bit boring... And running around scanning things... kinda like going around your home and dusting... LOL

I remember the Chodak... That huge dreadnaught was tough (from what I remember)! What was the name of the publisher? I think they were called Holodeck???