Eebee blog of the month, and ship naming competition
16th May 2012 – 9.16 pmMarc Scaurus of Malefactor announced the creation of the Eebees, a 'monthly award that seeks to recognize the valiant pursuits of the Eve Blogging community'. Two awards are given each month, one for the best blog, and one for the best individual post over the course of the month. Naturally, I've been awarded the inaugural EVE Online Blog of the Month award.
Hello to all my new readers! Sadly, the award can only be won by the same blog once in any six-month period, so it will only be downhill from here. I've just been given free rein to relax my standards until November. You really should have been here last month. It was awesome. I know, I got an award for it.
But I'll give you a reason to pay attention for a little longer. I've bought myself a new Loki strategic cruiser, which I will be using for scouting and shooting naive industrialists, and as usual I have no idea what to call my new ship. As it normally takes me a week to think of a name, and then I just randomly choose an obscure cartoon reference, I am giving you the opportunity to name my new Loki for me.
Yeah, that's not much reason to keep reading, I know. However, I have—quite coincidentally—come in to the possession of a PLEX which, as long as I can get the PLEX out of Jita in my Kestrel, gives me some spare ISK. As such, I am willing to offer a 100 million ISK prize for naming my Loki. Reply with your suggestions as a comment to this post, and if you come up with the best name you'll win the ISK.
I could put some rules here, like three entries maximum per person, preferably in the same comment, but you probably wouldn't listen anyway. But it must be a comment. E-mails, EVE mails, or threatening phone calls in the early hours won't count. And please put your character name in your comment entry, or if you win I'll just get lots of spam from everyone claiming to be Spartacus and I won't know the difference.
The competition will be open until midnight (BST) Friday 25th May, with the cut-off determined by the timestamp generated by my journal. After that date I'll go through the entries, pick my favourite, and announce the winner.
EDIT: The first entry includes a prudent reminder that the length of ship names is limited. Thanks, Ty! Please keep names to twenty characters and below, or we'll all be disappointed.
42 Responses to “Eebee blog of the month, and ship naming competition”
It's Not You, It's Me
Terrible Misunderstanding
Can't Make this Short Eno
Silent Victory
SP Loss inbound
Wish I Was Thor
Also congrats on the award! (That's not a ship name entry)
Morbid Limousine
Steamy Neutron
Sienna Sledgehammer
Gratz on the Blog of the month award. I knew if anyone could win it that you were going to get the award day it was announced. So not surprised. It speaks to your hard work at quality daily and consistent writing.
Oscar
PewPewlitzer
Pwny Express
Congrats on the award!
Slain by Elf
Damn that character limit, it rules out both Starry Dynamo in the Machinery of Night and McMagic’s Candied Ham of Pebbles Run. Not that I could do much with ISK anyway...
Congratulations on the award, please moderate the celebatory cat nip for now :)
Shere Khan
Not for the Star Trek villian but the Tiger character out of Jungle Book. Fits nicely with your blog name without being over the top.
Congrats on the award! It's well earned.
Names? How about...
Wabbit Waster
or
Ambush Annie
or
Loot Lizard
I kinda like two part names for ships. Can you tell? Keep up the good work!
Names.. I haz em.
Loki There!
or
Wannabe Avenger
or
Orphaned God
First: Well done and well deserved!
1: Farbaute's Son (Loki's father according to Norse mythology)
2: Fenris (the wolf Loki fathered that will eat Odin)
Yeah, a theme here. But for the third, not so.
3: Suddenly Loki
Well Hungarian
1 Pompoen Soep
2 Grimbulous
3 Maccy MacLoki
iPod
Surely the only possible option is a celebration of recent success. I propose:
MCFC Champs 2011-12
Congratulations and well deserved.
Snidely Whiplash
Rapscallion
Bonaroo Bunny
I need the isk, so fingers crossed. :)
congrats for your award !
(u might be glad to hear that I've actually moved to WH space since taking up reading ur blog back in December)
Loki Luciano
Я не знаю, что я делаю (Russian for 'I don't know what I'm doing')
Just as a little joke. But grats on the award, you've always been one of the best blogs out there.
Congratulations! Very well deserved.
Name: Loki Me
Just keep up the great blog. - o7
Congrats, PJ! Absolutely love your blog and your writing. Consistently engaging and exciting!
New Ship Name...?
-Golem Fund
Congrats. The only Eve blog that keeps me coming back, but please, stop it with the tips and tricks - I like all the uninformed idiots in wh-space. :)
Anyway on to my winning entries.......
Loki-doki
but still dangerous
Shall we tango
I'm choosing a punk theme. If EvE were real (wot!?!? it ain't real?), I imagine that's the kind of music that would be playing in my Pod. So here goes:
"Minor Threat"
"The Buzzcock"
"Blitzkrieg Bop"
You rock.
Mac McCrankey :)
1) "..A Daemon operative"
"Loki Stormbringer" is a cunning, and seriously feared character in the *must read* book Daemon by Daniel Suarez. Seemed fitting for a Loki of yours.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(technothriller_series)
2) "Cheetara"
Because we all know you are a fan of cats and that this is one of the awesomest cat heroines ever.
http://thundercats.wikia.com/wiki/Cheetara
3) "Penny's Sandwich"
According to what I've read this is what Penny eats.
"Tigress" , for obvious reasons :)
0.45 kiLo of Flesh (it's a pound, get it?)
1. Poki Loki
2. Pointy thing
3. Pengu's Revenge
-Faedes
1. Wit Amidst Folly
2. Hidden Income
3. Rubric of Ruin
4. Wisdom like Silence
5. Lucid Nonsense
6. You'll Thank Me Later
7. Bad for Business
8. Not Invented Here
9. Zero Gravitas
10.Quietly Confidant
yeah....I love Iain M Banks!
Congrats on the award, only played eve for a few months, but your blog led me to leave k-space and find a home in a c5 corp. Best move ever.
Thanks!
1. tokidoki loki
2. cloaky: low-key
3. strategic snoozer
Came for the wormhole colors post, stayed for the rest of the content. Keep it up.
"Star of Skarkon"
Get it?
The Naming of Ships
The Naming of Ships is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a ship must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
First of all, there's the name that the pilot uses daily,
Such as Rifter, Incursus, Tornado or Crane,
Such as Vexor or Manticore, Tengu or Harpy
All of them sensible everyday names.
There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:
Such as Primae, Lachesis, Echelon, Cheetah -
But all of them sensible everyday names.
But I tell you, a ship needs a name that's particular,
A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
Else how can it keep traversal perpendicular,
Or spread out its scan probes, or in nullsec reside?
Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
Such as Monkeytrap, Rustbarge, or Used To Be Hip,
Such as Bomb Ballerina, or else Lethality Spectrum -
Names that never belong to more than one ship.
But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will guess;
The name that no human research can discover -
But CCP KNOWS, and will never confess.
When you notice a ship spun in hangar rotation
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
Its pilot is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of its name:
Its ineffable effable
Effin' ineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular Name.
- With apologies to T.S. Eliot
(from "Old Possum's Book of Practical Spaceships")
...oh, and as the above was fun to rewrite but not actually very helpful when it comes to choosing a name, some random picks from my hangar include: Awakened Iron, The Abyss Gazes Also, Aces and Eights, Reason's Shadow, and Bushranger.
Excellent pastiche, Rowan, but do you mean Monkeytrap, Rustbarge, and Used To Be Hip are not your suggestions? Because that would be awesome, letting me have them for free!
If Zoso can give you 'McMagic’s Candied Ham of Pebbles Run', a name that practically demands someone duct-tape two ships together so they can get the name box long enough, who am I to do less?
Besides, I hear the Eliot estate are a bit slack in ganking wormhole dwellers these days, so you're pretty safe if you decide to liberate them.
Wasn't really going to participate in this at first, but somehow my mind kept working on it without my consent. So these the ones I came up with while my brain was subconsciously at work today at work on this and taking into account the mischief you like to create:
"Mischievous"
"Malicious Intent"
"TroubleMaker"
Unqualified Bonus because who said EVE was a fair game: "Mischief Maker"
Lonely Hunter - which I think reflects your adventures in W-space quite well.
Comes with accompanying theme song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXKiK-c8xTg
Fine. Have it your way. As if I'm any good at naming ships. *pout*
"Sensei Crane"
"Spirit of Q"
"Hello there!"
"Lodur" - Lokis Second Name
Hi Penny - big fan of ur blog!
My suggestion is 'Clean Air Turbulence' reference to Consider Phlebus my fave Iain Banks novel
Grats on award.
"A penny for your...."
"Not here to salvage"
"Where is HS?"
Long time reader. 1st time commenter. Grats on award.
Poppycock
Sugar Minott (I like to name ships after reggae artist)
Trickster
Rahmiro
"Rusty Sword"
"Nosepick "
"10K!"
The competition is now closed!
Thank you for all the entries. I'll pick my favourite name and announce the winner in a future post.