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[Shiroi Tsuki]

Back on my first encounter with the Ilya Muromets a few bajillion years ago in the OG River City Night back in the UI 1.0 days, I noticed that it didn't follow the standard convention of battlemech identification when you hold down the Q button. While the others would pop up as "SDR-5K" or "AS7-D", the Ilya simply popped up as "Ilya Muromets". Since you couldn't rename your Mechs back then and I just went with their original variant, I thought how you name your Mechs would also appear on other player's screen. This was around the time when I was HUGE on playing lights (SDR-5K(C)). So when I bought my very own, I named it as "BIG BAD DAWG", with the thought of confusing the enemy of piloting a much larger Mech. When I found that ONLY Hero Mechs have custom names, I started naming my Mechs with more meaning I suppose.

Anyhow, how do you name your Mechs?

Here's mine;

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CPLT-C4 "Nek-chan"
Originally, I was gonna rename this to "Mad Cat" due to it's very similar appearance to the Timberwolf, but they announced the Clanner's arrival, so I picked a weeb name instead and went for "Neko" which literally means Cat

JM6-S "E Yeagermech"
I was HUGE on Attack on Kyojin/Shingeki no Titan back then (pun heavily implied) and the word "Jager" instantly reminded me of the show's protagonist; Eren Yeager. Also the "E" stands for Eren if that wasn't clear enough

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SDR-5K "BIG BAD DAWG"
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SDR-5D "Delta Spider"
I'm started becoming very original with my names and went for the military phoentic alphabet for their variant

CN9-A(C) "Fenix"
Named after the great Praetor Fenix of the Protoss. Excellent survivability, great firepower (at the time) for it's weight and the brawly gameplay immediately reminded me of the Protoss Zealots, and who other than Fenix himself would make an excellent candidate to represent them? Besides, the proportions as shown here kinda does resembles the Centurions

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HBK-4P "Reiterpallas"
It's supposed to be "Reiterpallasch", the name of the Armored Core used by Wynne D. from Armored Core For Answer, but we can only have 12 cahracters, What the HBK-RP and the Reiterpallasch have in common is their impressive weaponry of energy weapons. That and Wynne D. has got to be my second favorite after May <3

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TDR-9S "Lightning"
Named after Lightning from FF13. She's too perfect. I'm so gay for her <3 This was also around the time when I first played FF13 (my first FF game) and I really had no other name that would top this one off. Also it reminds me of Bohemian Rhapsody "Thunderbolts and Lightning"

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SDR-5V "ViperSipder2"
Another example of me being creative with naming conventions. "Victor Spider" didn't sound right, so I went with "Viper" This one is actually my second SDR-5V as I sold my first SDR-5V when I got a free Mechbay but with no TDR-9S in it. Remember when PGI gave away free Mechs for winning 5 games in the weekends?

TBT-7K "Sylvia"
Named after my classmate back in art class. I ended up getting paired with her so we end up becoming close.

DWF-Prime "Daishi"
Clanner Invasion just hit, you're a freebirth scum that owns a Clanner Mech. You name it the IS designation, which is "Daishi". Direwolf are for Clanners. Besides, it was designated as "Daishi" back in MW3, so ever since childhood, I've always referred to the the DWFs as Daishi.

JM6-DD "Boomer"
Named after Boomer from Battlestar Galactica. Ever since I was a kid, I had a massive crush on the actress. Also I originally mounted AC/40s on this thing. The name is definitely fitting if you ask me

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JM6-A "Starbuck"
Named after Kara Thrace aka "Starbuck" from BSG. I was rewatching BSG at the time when I bought this Mech, and Starbuck is definitely memorable. Also around the same time when I first had my Starbucks Coffee. Mocha Frapp with cream, Grande. I ended up getting some Starbucks at least once a week across the road afterschool. It was getting unhealthy and bad for my wallet, so I had to stop.

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AWS-8T "Pando"
So when I first joined the unit I'm in, the 1st Hussars, one of the senior ranking officers (now the leader) named Pando Box was always seen in his Awesomes. He was just simply proficient with them. I ended up naming my Awesome after him

WVR-7K "Stella"
I wanted to name this simply as "Wolverine" since the name is pretty cool, but I wanted to be more unique. When I first had my mittens all over this Mech, it played very similar to my Centurion and I did not just well, but great! It had my highest K/D and W/L ratio. I named it "Stella", which is Star for latin. When something is a star, it's usually great, and with my Wolverine at the time, it definitely was a star

CN9-A(NCIX) "Fenix (OPS)"
It was around this time when I first started playing Scouting mode. The mode itself definitely felt like special missions that special forces would partake in. Combined this with the grayish scheme the NCIX has, I ended up naming it "Ops". The Centurion that has a similar configuration as my CN9-A(C), but focuses more on the smaller scale battles.

CN9-AL "Fenix (Lima)"
After doing REEAAAALLY well with Centurions, I decided to buy 2 others for the sake of getting Speed Tweak. I wanted this to be a quick and easy phase so I don't have to change play styles drastically. I ended up building builds similar to my CN9-As and played them the same way I would play the CN9-As, and thus, keeping the "Fenix" name but with Lima since I'm tootally original

CN9-D "Fenix (Delta)
Same story with the CN9-AL, I didn't want to change play styles so I made a build close to my CN9-A. Also Delta for the variant. Originality ftw

HBK-GI "Grid Iron"
Nothing fancy. All hero Mechs are already named, so every Hero mechs that I'll ever get will keep their Hero name.

TBR-C "Mad Cat"
Similar with the Daishi. Mad Cat is the IS designation and it's how I've always known the TBRs as.

[BLOOD WOLF]

I usually put a name before wolf. My Timberwolf prime is Called Omega Wolf.

[El Bandito]

Borderlands 2, baby!

[jss78]

I don't name mine that often...

My Zeus command 'mech is "Kommando Eins" as a nod to the Steiner origins.

My Grasshopper 5P is "Rainbow Warrior" because it shoots all the colours:

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[Dee Eight]

Sometimes I'll name based off the chassis desination code as my PHX-1K became KHAAAAAAAN, my HBK-4G is Garand, and SHD-2D2 is EssTwoDeeTwo. Sometimes a play on its name if its a Hero as La Malinche became La Molasses, Heavy Metal became HerMajesty and Boar's Head became Brunhilda. Sometimes its camo as Hellslinger became DevilDinosaur and two of my spiders which got the phracken camo became JessicaDrew (red/white/yellow) or PeterPorker (blue/black/red). Sometimes I follow a theme for the chassis as one of my warhawks is DarkHawk and another is WarMachine, I have a white tiger and black panther panthers, and a Cheetara Arctic Cheetah. One of my warhammers became DrHamstervll and I renamed my spider hero is Charlotte. Yen Lo Wang is DivineWind, one of my CN9-A's is CrazyEights because its top speed is 88.8. All my Griffins are named after characters from the griffin family on Family Guy. My Nova's are Richard, Alexander and Saal. Three of my Phoenix Hawks are Hikaru, Max and Miriya (and yes I made the paint match their valkyries in the series as close as possible). Oh and some of my kodiaks got named after celebrity bears (bart, booboo, yogi). My Spirit Bear got named Boeing because on its first match I scored the same damage as one of Boeing's famous 7 series airliners).

Edited by Dee Eight, 26 December 2016 - 06:27 AM.

[Bud Crue]

I don't name most of my mechs, so its gotta be something special or practical for me to bother.

Mauler MX90: "Perfect", I used all the hard points and all the crit spaces, its still effective (as far as anything can be effective with my playing) and it looks good.

IV-4 with 2 LBX10s and a std engine: "The Hobo".

Two Illyas named "Vitric" (3Uac 5s and 3ML and xl 285) and "Forge" (3 LBX 10s and xl 285). Before the existence of save drop decks. Named to make it easier to pop em in to the drop deck when the namesake map came up. I left the names, cuz they feel appropriate to the builds.

Loyalty Wolverine: "Hate". I had PGI remove it. Thus, for awhile I had no hate. Then I bought a Locust 3V and the "Hate" has come back.

[The6thMessenger]

I name them after sweets and confections, most of them anyways.

Atlas S - "Poundcake" (brawler)
Kodiak 3 - "Kisses"
King Crab 0000 - "Mousse"
King Crab 000 - "Milky Way"
King Crab 000B - "Pudding"
Executioner C - "Candace"
Shadow Hawk H2 - "Taffy"
Hunchback IIC A - "Custard"
Hunchback IIC B - "Donut"
Hunchback IIC C - "Cupcake"
Shadow Cat - "Cutiepie"
Hunchback 4SP - "Ice Cream"
Hunchback 4G - "Lollie" (lolliepop)
Hunchback GI - "Cream Puff"
Blackjack 2 - "Licorice"
Centurion A - "Brownies"
Warhammer 6R - "Peppermint"
Rifleman 5D - "Muffin"
Urbanmech R63 - "Neopolitan"
Urbanmech R63 - "Kit-Kat"
Urbanmech R60L - "Cadbury"
Urbanmech R60 - "Hershey"
Timberwolf D - "Sandwich"
Timberwolf S - "Cheesecake"

(Yes i have 4 Urbies.)

The others were:

Direwolf w - "Moon Moon"
Timberwolf A - "Vengeance"
Kitfox S - "Foxxy"

[Dirus Nigh]

I dont name my mechs any more. I kinda lost interest in that. However my first few mechs have a bunch of names that fit a theme for a particular chassis, and are a reference to some thing.

Light

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Commandos
TDK, Breaker
1B, Flash
2D, Grunt
3A, Short Fuse
1D, Zap

Firestarter
A Janson
K Kleven
H Wedge
E Spirit

Jenner
F Meep Meep

Panther
8Z Cat Sith

Raven
2X Evermore
4X Hitch
3L Lenore

Urbie
R60L R5-D4 (Because Bad Motivator was to long)

Mediums

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Blackjack
3 All In
1X Bluff

Centurion
AL Aldo
A Spartan

Hunchback
4SP FUBAR
4P HBK-4P STOCK
4H RUHA
4J SNAFU

Trebuchet
5J Vader

Heavy

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Dragon
FLAME Dunkelzahn
named two others Falcor, and Vermathrax But sold them a long time ago

Jagermech
DD Boomzilla
FB Rifleman

Quickdraw
4H Huckleberry
4G McGraw
5K The Sheriff

lastly and assault. Just the Victor 9S has a name. Sten. After an old D&D character.

Edited by Dirus Nigh, 26 December 2016 - 07:32 AM.

[Juodas Varnas]

...Nouns? I guess?

[stoicfaux]

Err... you can name your mechs?

[Maker L106]

Little bit of an odd post but hell I'll bite.

I name mine based on how they perform for me specifically.

http://i.imgur.com/2r6oRPx.png

Some of the more notable ones however are as follows.

Shadow Cat Prime "Conductor" due to the time i ran it with NARC 2 LPL's and ECM and made callouts of targets for around a solid week with two dropmates and attempting to organize the tier 4-5 pugs. Good stuff.

Panther 10K® "Painkiller" The first special mech I recieved as a gift from a friend. What i used to get into the game and loved it. Still like the panther but its been ravaged by the rescale.

Panther 10P "Wabbajack" I like fast, this mech is that, sadly it is really little else, excellent butt poker though. Used mostly when the squads around. Named for the random spell result staff from Elder Scrolls legend. You never know what's going to happen when you whip out the 10P... I felt Wabbajack fit it well.

Night Gyr Prime "Night Blear" Don't mech on insomnia kids.

Marauder IIC "Devils Reach" Named for a Jolly Rogers song about a ship that defeats 5 others and then basically crashes ashore. Had an absolutely insane game in an assault mech with a similar result 4 kills though not 5 and felt like it deserved the name. Laser vomit or no.

Marauder 5D "Beam Glass" 2 LPLs 2MPLs 1 Mediums 2 A-SRM4's on top of an XL350, Named obviously because if one shoulder goes so do you and its overstocking of weapons. Named after facing down a Kodiac (no idea which model) and surviving despite having two extremely red side torso's after leaving the fight.

Marauder 3R "Metarauder" named for the Metamechs build it runs. Nuff said.

Marauder BH "One Way Walk" Felt i should explain this one as it sounds a bit emo. Probably a pretty standard build, 7 mediums and an AC20. CQC fighter with a standard engine. Just known for taking way WAY more of a beating than it should.

[Pyed]

Archer characters, at least until I got too many mechs and it got cumbersome and I gave up.

My Banshee was "Pam". 12 laser Nova was "Lana" because, you know, Truckasaurus hands. Wubverine was Krieger. LCT-1E was Conway Stern because backstabs. Pirate's Bane was "Seamus".

etc.

[WrathOfDeadguy]

Something obvious that tells me at a glance what I built the 'Mech for. Usually something chassis-themed, punny, and lame. Very occasionally I'll give a 'Mech a proper nickname, but it doesn't happen often.

Examples:

RFL-3N "Classic RoFL" ("Classic" is my tag for super-stock configs)
RFL-3N "RoFLBOOM" (One guess what it's armed with)
HBK-4G "Classic Boom"
UM-R63 "Can-Do" (Urbies are cans. Originality!)
UM-R63 "Can Opener"
UM-R60 "Classic Canning"
UM-R60L "BoomCan"
ADR-D "Boomslang" (I name my adders after snakes)
RVN-4X "BoomBird"
RVN-3L "BuddyBird"
COM-2D "BittyBuddy"
CDA-3M "BuddyBug" (All the "Buddies" have ECM)
KFX-Prime "Lurmbrella"
AS7-S "Pain"
ZEU-6S "Lefty" (One of my very few fully asymmetrical builds)
WLF-2 "Bloodhound"
WLF-1 "Greyhound"

There are a few still lacking names, mostly because their configs haven't settled in permanently yet. Anything I don't plan on changing again gets named.

[Kasumi Sumika]

I mostly named after my own fun references. Sometimes I named after the main weapons they use.

SHD-5M "Dougram"

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Named after the original design from Fang of the Sun : Dougram.

MDD-Prime "Greget"

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From famous quote from Mad Dog in The Raid.

CN9-AH "Red Comet"

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Paint it Red and now it's like Char's Zaku II.

BL-6-KNT "Gypsy Danger"

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BK MWO design pretty much like Gypsy Danger in Pacific Rim.

AS7-D-DC "Gundam"

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Leading the charge like a Gundam.

BLR-1S "Lurmmaster"

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Equipped 4 LRM10+A as main weapons and 4 ML as backup weapons

WHM-6R "Pulverizer"

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I paint it based on Prototype Pulverizer from Armored Core Nexus

Kodiak "Bearguy 9000"

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It's like grown up Bearguy from Gundam Build Fighter with Steroids.

RVN-3L "Black Bird"

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From X-Men main air transportation

RVN-2X "Hustler One"

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Just like Pulverizer's Paint schemes but it's now based on Nineball and it's pilot name is Hustler One.

RVN-4X "Ariake"

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Named from Sumika Juutilainen's mech from Armored Core Project Phantasma

PXH-1B "Hikaru"

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Based on Hikaru Ichijo's Valkyrie color schemes from Macross

[Cabusha3]

Pretty boring here. If I have duplicates of the same variant, then they're renamed for their builds. EG brawler, laser vomit, etc. Sell Me for the variants I hate.

Edited by Cabusha3, 26 December 2016 - 11:45 AM.

[Ibrandul Mike]

I am quite boring too...

I have "Candy Cane" (Marauder IIC, red and white stripes) and a few others with names (my arctic cheetahs, named Snail and Slug)

But most mechs that are named are named after their armament...
2LPL5ML for example...

Unnamd variants are normally the ones that aren't fully equipped, stock or in the worst case not really enjoyable for me... oh yeah and I have my TimberWolf with only 2 LPL that I got halfway through equipping... then had to do something else... he is called "NOT READY"... which works... sometimes...
It is quite fun to drop with that mech... not enough weapons, tons of free space... and the question over my head "Why did I take it again???"

[RestosIII]

I always forget to name mine. So woops.

[XxXAbsolutZeroXxX]

My c-bill grinding Awesome Hero "Pretty Baby" is the only mech I gave a name too.

I was going to name it Lurm Queen.

Ended up with Siege Breakr instead.

It lives up to its name sometimes.

Shingeki no kyoujin & starcraft are great.

I'm currently reading Tower of God which is a similar genre to SnK.

Its kind of a bummer how a lot of these series start out strong and fade over time.

[Dee Eight]

One of my ex-gf's username online when we met was Dragonness_Girl... so I named one of my dragons "Chanza" in her honour... its a mean (redacted it myself)

[Levi Porphyrogenitus]

I name my mechs by the simple expedient of leaving them with their default designations.