Community Standards for Vehicle Classifications

[maddog59]

I've seen that a lot of people have come up with interesting naming conventions for their various types of vehicles - naming their robotic landers after small animals, for instance, or stations as "City of ..." and so on, as well as letter/number schemes similar to the way the military might designate their vessels. But I was curious to know if anyone has put together a classification of the types of vessels. For instance, a 'yacht' might be any ship that can accommodate X number of Kerbals and/or have a certain TWR rating and/or certain size or number of engines; a 'cruiser' might be any ship with different specs, and so on. 

[kerbiloid]

A "titanic" - a large non-armored interplanetary cruise ship with four nozzles and few escape pods.

[jimmymcgoochie]

How you classify your vessels can vary very widely between players- one person’s “interplanetary supership” could be another’s “corvette”.

[RealKerbal3x]

@maddog59 This has come up in the past and there's no way you'd get everyone to agree on some arbitrary standard classification scheme.  What people choose to name their craft is just as much up to them as how they want to play the game is. 

[Corona688]

The only real "standards" are the one the game comes with - ship, probe, relay, station, base...

[maddog59]

2 hours ago, RealKerbal3x said:

@maddog59 This has come up in the past and there's no way you'd get everyone to agree on some arbitrary standard classification scheme.  What people choose to name their craft is just as much up to them as how they want to play the game is. 

That's pretty much what I figured, but I was curious to see if I'd just missed any established standard while I was looking around. As @jimmymcgoochie said, what is a 'supership' in one person's game may be a 'dingy' in someone else's.