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As part of this year’s GM Week we’re looking for help from the EVE Online community to make one of the most important decisions we face when moving to our new headquarters in December – what to name our meeting rooms in the new building.

Right now, our meeting rooms are named after expansions in our current building and have been since we moved in more than a decade ago.

When we move to the new place, we’d like to change things up a little, so we’re calling on our players to help us choose how we should decide on names.

We’ll have a lot of space in our new building and there’ll be approximately 25-30 rooms that will be bookable for various purposes. These are the ones that we’re looking to have you guys name.

You can read more about all this in the full dev blog here.

First, we’ll decide on a category of names with a simple four-way vote. The options are:

• Region Names
• Constellation Names
• Solar System Names
• Ship class Names

We’ll kick off the voting as of today, and we’ll leave the poll open for seven days. After this, we’ll go into more detail and decide on specific names with the help of the community.

Please bear in mind that if we choose to go with Region, Constellation or Solar System names, we’ll only be using “named” locations in EVE.

In the first round of voting, let us know which option you’ve voted for, and why you’ve chosen that option. Maybe even what name you’ll suggest if your choice wins.

If some cool stories about why people have chosen to vote a certain way come to light, then maybe there’ll be a few PLEX or a SKIN or two up for grabs as random prizes.

We’re interested to hear stories about your history with certain systems, regions or ship classes. Maybe an anecdote about a big ass fight you were involved in, or a ship class that’s close to your heart after a long history of flying it.

We’re looking forward to hearing stories from you guys and finding out how they’ll influence which way you’ll vote.

Also, to the CCPers who’re reading this, you get to vote too of course – you’ll be using the rooms after all, so share your stories as well!

Hit the poll below if you’d like to vote, and let us know in a reply why you’ve chosen to vote the way you did!

Vote here!

Be sure to let us know why you chose to vote this way in a reply below

Maybe you’ll win a cool prize!

• Region Names
• Constellation Names
• Solar System Names
• Ship Class Names

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Will you be giving out free invulnerable polaris frigates to the winners of the name choosing contest?

haha, not a chance.

I chose the “Ship Class Name” option for a few reasons, but the main one is the fact that I want a meeting room called Deimos as it’s my favorite ship in the world ever.

I like the idea of a meeting room somewhere in the building that’s completely made of glass walls too, which is basically how I fit a Deimos - glass cannon.

Just so we can be sure to have a meeting room called Falcon. Right?

Well, I will go with solar system names. As already mentioned, but meetings in Amamake, Yulai or Poitot have a very nice touch.

I plumped for region names both because I think they’re awesome and distinct (where ship names have too many RL links for me) and they have great descriptions which would also be nice to have on plaques on the wall of the room. Cool idea

Edit: if we have dedicated 1:1 rooms in the new place we must buck the rule and call one of them The Sun.

As a member of Team Teamy McTeamface I am glad it’s been ruled out. Could definitely get into the idea of meeting in the “Sir David Attenborough” meeting room though!

There are ~55 region names that would be meeting room viable by my estimate (though I hope we steer clear of using both Cache and Catch)

Oh @CCP_Falcon while I remember - if solar systems win can we ban any that are named after present or past devs please? “Hilmar is so hot today”, “Someone left their water bottle in Nonni”, etc.

Nonni is the Icelandic nickname for Jón so technically a few! But I do believe it was named for a particular one (not 100% sure tbf)

I was informed by a player that it also means buttcheek in Danish

Tough one, but I’ll do some digging tomorrow and see what I can come up with!

I think there might be a smidgen of confusion with ship class. The class Falcon refers to is (far as I can tell) what you might understand as the “Ship” (e.g. on zkill). So like “Golem-class Marauder” (which then confusingly is a Marauder-class Battleship).

Someone earlier in the thread said Catch for bugs discussion and that tickled me I must say (try/catch error handling). Scalding Pass is kinda flying over my head though… mind spelling it out for me?

Just to be clear, the room in that example I gave would be named Golem, not Marauder or Battleship. @CCP_Falcon can confirm, but since he suggested Deimos and not Heavy Assault Cruiser I think it’s a safe bet.

Correct! For clarification, with the names used in caps:

• ZEALOT class Heavy Assault Ship
• TARANIS class Interceptor
• APOCALYPSE class battleship
• LEVIATHAN class titan

etc

I’d hope we’d at least go for Shintaht in honor of your estimable trivia performance at the CCP’s CCP Games Games of Fanfest 2018

Nah we were using it earlier I think but it’s not ours either. Came from early-mid 90s Usenet apparently (isn’t stackexchange great?) https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/23112/where-did-soon-originate

Ship classes, if only to be able to butcher the way “Gila” is pronounced while on the clock

I don’t think I can pronounce half the system names

Ship class names it is!

We’ll have more information on stage two of the contest soon!