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Kyra Felann Gallente Noir.	Posted - 2008.01.27 01:05:00 - [31] Originally by: WarlockX Originally by: Suze'Rain you may be amazed to notice that there are other minmatar ship names like the rapier... like the claymore, stiletto and so on. I cant see any other connection that they could be named by, other than that they're also names from sci-fi films. scratches head claymore is a large sword stiletto is a dagger rapier is a sword humor is a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement I think someone needs to train his Humor Recognition to at least 2.
Thuul'Khalat Gallente Phoenix Wing	Posted - 2008.01.27 01:11:00 - [32] Originally by: Dromidas Shadowmoon Originally by: Meiyang Lee Originally by: Dromidas Shadowmoon There's a system named Goram too :) cough firefly considering EVE's age, who do you think had that name first Lets see.. Firefly: Sept 2002 Eve: May 2003 Not sure? :) Somehow I think EVE had been in production a while in Sept 2002 ;) ---
Kyra Felann Gallente Noir.	Posted - 2008.01.27 01:18:00 - [33] Originally by: Plutonian EDIT: I remember when Firefly came out Stephen Robertson (a designer of I-War and EoC) remarking on many similarities... from a ship which looked surprisingly like a Dreadnaught corvette in firefly to the main character being named Mal (main character in EoC was named Cal and similar). Well, his name is actually Malcolm. Mal is just short for Malcolm. I wouldn't call that a influence any more than saying a movie with a character named Ted is influenced by something with a character named Fred.
goodby4u Logistic Technologies Incorporated	Posted - 2008.01.27 01:18:00 - [34] Maybe,but those are just names,all of the ships names could probably be found somewhere. Nyx-a greek goddess....of darkness. erebus-a greek god of darkness. nidhoggur-somekind of icelandic god. cerberus-a half bird half dog thingy that protect greek gods. Hell i saw a couple shipnames in stargate sg1 and atlantis multiple times. This is what happens when a kestrel with thermal missiles declares war on earth
Wendat Huron Stellar Solutions	Posted - 2008.01.27 03:00:00 - [35] They did experiencing some desync when jumping in Wing Commander, system not loading proper and got ganked one after the other. So I guess gamedesign conspired with fate. These forums are FUBAR, upgrade this decade!
Akita T Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force	Posted - 2008.01.27 03:49:00 - [36] Originally by: Leandro Salazar Also, there IS a real Wing commander movie, with good acting and a superb story. It is called Wing Commander IV ;) (Preferably the highres DVD edition) Wing Commander 4 (the 6-CD-version) was the second computer game I ever bought (the first one was Outpost 1). Sadly, I seem to have misplaced the disks, failed to make any backup copies, and I can not find it ANYWHERE for sale. What is this "hi-res DVD version" you speak of, and where can I find it ? 1\|2\|3\|4\|5.
Kyra Felann Gallente Noir.	Posted - 2008.01.27 04:57:00 - [37] Originally by: Akita T Originally by: Leandro Salazar Also, there IS a real Wing commander movie, with good acting and a superb story. It is called Wing Commander IV ;) (Preferably the highres DVD edition) Wing Commander 4 (the 6-CD-version) was the second computer game I ever bought (the first one was Outpost 1). Sadly, I seem to have misplaced the disks, failed to make any backup copies, and I can not find it ANYWHERE for sale. What is this "hi-res DVD version" you speak of, and where can I find it ? A quick look on Google and I found that it's apparently abandonware, which means you can legally download it and run it under DOSbox.
Akita T Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force	Posted - 2008.01.27 07:16:00 - [38] Edited by: Akita T on 27/01/2008 07:19:13 WC1 might be, but not WC4. I've "researched" WC4 myself since the last post. I've seen Amazon offers for roughly 80$, and eBay for around 50$ "BIN" for the DVD double-sided version, but let's just say the Amazon offer is a bit over my acceptable limit, and the eBay one isn't shipping to where I live (or they might ship it, but for an absurd extra price). 1\|2\|3\|4\|5.
Kyra Felann Gallente Noir.	Posted - 2008.01.27 07:23:00 - [39] Originally by: Akita T Edited by: Akita T on 27/01/2008 07:19:13 WC1 might be, but not WC4. I've "researched" WC4 myself since the last post. I've seen Amazon offers for roughly 80$, and eBay for around 50$ "BIN" for the DVD double-sided version, but let's just say the Amazon offer is a bit over my acceptable limit, and the eBay one isn't shipping to where I live (or they might ship it, but for an absurd extra price). Sorry, I didn't see the "4".
Zinras Caldari	Posted - 2008.01.27 07:26:00 - [40] Originally by: Dromidas Shadowmoon Tolkein took a glance at Nordic mythology and stole just about every single interesting thing from it and wrote a series of books that made him look like he invented it all, which a lot of games then started to rip off, as well as going for the original source(everquest, warcraft, d&d, etc) Fix'd Originally by: CCP Greyscale moderated - mother abuse - Mitnal
Haks'he Lirky Dominion Imperium	Posted - 2008.01.27 07:36:00 - [41] Originally by: Father Shillelagh Just watched Wing Commander, was bored and well had nothing to watch. The ships Rapier and Broadsword were both mentioned, didnt really pay much attention, but i wonder where if ccp has used the names from ships in other films. I see one flaw in your title actually, sure eve is probably inspired by many sci-fi flicks, but if you want to take Wing Commander as an inspiration then it's a computer game or more to the point a series of computer games that kicked ass most of the time that inspired that travesty of a movie.
Fluxburn Gold Stem Industrial	Posted - 2008.01.27 09:03:00 - [42] AFAIK, the DVD Version of WC4 was only available as part of the 2nd generation Creative Labs DVD Rom Kits, (2x DVD Awesome) think it was around 1998 when i got mine, and the DVD itself was double sided, and really badly made so it didn't last very long :/
Terry Knipe	Posted - 2008.01.27 09:12:00 - [43] Originally by: Kyra Felann Originally by: WarlockX Originally by: Suze'Rain you may be amazed to notice that there are other minmatar ship names like the rapier... like the claymore, stiletto and so on. I cant see any other connection that they could be named by, other than that they're also names from sci-fi films. scratches head claymore is a large sword stiletto is a dagger rapier is a sword humor is a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement I think someone needs to train his Humor Recognition to at least 2. A stiletto is a sword.....for very small people
Mintake	Posted - 2008.01.27 16:43:00 - [44] Originally by: goodby4u cerberus-a half bird half dog thingy that protect greek gods. Ok lets get this straight cerberus is a 3 headed dog that guards the gates to the underworld
Deviana Sevidon Gallente Panta-Rhei Phoenix Allianz	Posted - 2008.01.27 17:19:00 - [45] Edited by: Deviana Sevidon on 27/01/2008 17:22:49 Edited by: Deviana Sevidon on 27/01/2008 17:22:10 There will always be some similarities. I had always wondered if the Thanatos-Design was inspired by the early Wing Commander Series. Carrier and Ships in WC 1 and 2: http://www.fleet-commander.net/WCTO/Units/shiplist.htm
Djinn Phluxx	Posted - 2008.01.27 18:13:00 - [46] None of the names are ripped from movies per se. Some of the names simply happen to be common in other movies because they're applicable. in essence, it's better to say the movies have ripped their ship names from common themes in our inventions, discoveries and nature. Amarrans' ships are usually all religon-related. Apoc, Armageddon, Damnation..so on. Gallente are usually mythology based (the muse Lachesis, Ishtar, etc). Caldari are mainly animals (mostly birds, but a few others like Scorpion) or mythological animals (phoenix, leviathan). And the minmatar..matching their ships, the names are a mishmash of different things. They're mainly storms/wins (typhoon, cyclone, tempest), but also use destructive names like stabber, burst, rupture (along with weapons that can cause them like Stilletto, Scythe)...and viscious animal names...Wolf and Jaguar. Each race sits within it's common theme, usually. The fact that other sci fi movies use the same names often is more because the names simply sound cool or fit more than any borrowing they may do from other sci fi crap.
Karentaki Gallente Combat-Evolved	Posted - 2008.01.27 18:44:00 - [47] Not sure if anyone's read the Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton, but a LOT of ideas from those books appear in EVE - warp scrambling, drones, neural-interfacing with ships, e-war, and to a limited extent asteroid mining, etc Not all of this stuff was first seen in these books, but I suspect a lot of inspiration was taken from them by CCP. ====== Proud pilot of the 'Drainpipe of Doom'
Reem Fairchild Minmatar Military Industrial Research	Posted - 2008.01.27 18:49:00 - [48] Originally by: An Anarchyyt The fact that you just referenced Wing Commander, and only referenced it is that pretty awful movie makes me very very sad......and angry.
Kyra Felann Gallente Noir.	Posted - 2008.01.27 19:46:00 - [49] Originally by: Karentaki Not sure if anyone's read the Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton, but a LOT of ideas from those books appear in EVE - warp scrambling, drones, neural-interfacing with ships, e-war, and to a limited extent asteroid mining, etc Not all of this stuff was first seen in these books, but I suspect a lot of inspiration was taken from them by CCP. Well, e-war exists in the modern day, so I don't think it's from any novel.
Shu Set	Posted - 2008.01.28 02:25:00 - [50] Originally by: Karentaki Not sure if anyone's read the Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton, but a LOT of ideas from those books appear in EVE - warp scrambling, drones, neural-interfacing with ships, e-war, and to a limited extent asteroid mining, etc Not all of this stuff was first seen in these books, but I suspect a lot of inspiration was taken from them by CCP. A lot of these terms are used in a lot of different sci fi books, movies and games. It's these 'sci fi themes' that people put into the books to make them sci fi.
Jennai The Greater Goon GoonSwarm	Posted - 2008.01.28 02:47:00 - [51] Originally by: Djinn Phluxx And the minmatar..matching their ships, the names are a mishmash of different things. They're mainly storms/wins (typhoon, cyclone, tempest), but also use destructive names like stabber, burst, rupture (along with weapons that can cause them like Stilletto, Scythe)...and viscious animal names...Wolf and Jaguar. also Norse mythology - Huginn/Muninn, and all the capitals.
Steve Hawkings	Posted - 2008.01.28 02:55:00 - [52] Originally by: WarlockX Originally by: Suze'Rain you may be amazed to notice that there are other minmatar ship names like the rapier... like the claymore, stiletto and so on. I cant see any other connection that they could be named by, other than that they're also names from sci-fi films. scratches head claymore is a large sword stiletto is a dagger rapier is a sword lol I guess you didnt click the links
Siddy Paisti Paisti Syndicate	Posted - 2008.03.28 17:36:00 - [53] Originally by: DigitalCommunist If you want to know what sci-fi EVE borrows most from, its Babylon 5. i dont knwo realy, how many agamemnons and starfyries you got here? Or sharlins, nials, frazis, warlocs, whitestars, omegas, thunderbolts (ships), and shadow crabs (not genital hair crabs i gave you) eve got? Only shipclass i recall eve and B5 got is hyperion. B5 its cruiser and here its a battleship.
Lord Rue GenX Societies Inc. Rejuvenate	Posted - 2008.03.28 17:55:00 - [54] I think B-5 is perhaps the most direct SF-show inspiration source (the Jove = The Vorlons, Amarr and Minmetar = Centauri and Narn, outposts and starbases with lots of turrets, real red to blue doppler-shift effects for warp travel, semi-intertial flight and combat mechanics, etc) Planet-Killer supercapitals (you know the Titan DDD should be able to wipe out a planet if they could code it without wrecking the database.) and others I don't have time to think of right now. Devil bunnies! I snort the nose! Lucifer! Banana!
Nomakai Delateriel Viziam	Posted - 2008.03.28 19:17:00 - [55] Originally by: goodby4u nidhoggur-somekind of icelandic god. Not quite right. Nidhoggur is from Scandinavian/Icelandic mythology. A beast that sits at one of the springs that feeds the worldtree, eating on the trees roots. Hoggur means "striker" (sort of) while Nid hard to translate, meaning something like evil, curse/cursed, atrocity, despicable or foul (it's both a term for a particular evil deed, and a form of black/curse magic). ______________________________________________ -You can never earn my respect, only lose it. It's given freely, and only grudgingly retracted when necessary.
Doddy Omega Fleet Enterprises Executive Outcomes	Posted - 2008.03.28 20:05:00 - [56] Edited by: Doddy on 28/03/2008 20:05:33 Is this really worthy of a thread?? Of course eve is inspired by sci-fi films, would be kinda crap if it wasn't tbh. There hasn't been an original story in about 3000 years so i dont think ccp would be able to come up with a totally original background for an entire universe. Ship names is particularly obvious. In real life ships/aircraft etc are often named in classes, where "sister" vessels have related names. In warfare these names should always have martial/uplifting (or predatory animal) etc names. The fact that ccp carried this ancient tradition on as did several sci-fi tv series/films/books/games is hardly surprising. Do you really think ccp went "lets call this new fangled dictor thing a broadsword cos there is a ship type called that in wing-commander" rather than "lets call this new fangled dictor thing a broadsword seeing as we have a mimatar naming convention relating to swords (stilletto/sabre/scimitar/claymore) and broadsword hasn't been used yet".??
Ehranavaar CompleXion Industries CompleXion Alliance	Posted - 2008.03.28 20:24:00 - [57] Originally by: Plutonian Edited by: Plutonian on 26/01/2008 23:40:56 Working on a start-up game project, I was given the job of finding original names for over 1000 modules and ships. Not an easy task. No matter how cool and unknown you think the name is, someone has used it somewhere. broadsword, etc... these are all the 'usual suspects' in a sci-fi setting. Almost unavoidable. There is little new under the sun in this field. original traveller rpg broadsword class merc cruiser. even had it's own little book. goes back to the early 80's
Joshua Foiritain Coreli Corporation	Posted - 2008.03.28 20:33:00 - [58] Originally by: Suze'Rain claymore My Claymore > Your claymore -----

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