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This one is good, although I would swap Optimized and Enhanced to get the alphanumeric sort to match the Meta levels.

And add the flavor name in single quotes.

The only naming change that would had made any sense was from "Paradise cruise missile" to "Paradise EM Cruise missile".

Obviously that was too obvious and CCP knew better...

Really? CCP Really!!!!

I've played eve since '04, you know back when the learning curve was so high it was practically a wall.

And i can tell ya... i never had once thought about "These names suck". I thought they were creative... and it really seems like you guy lost alot of that since then.

This is the stupidest idea I've heard in a while... I was alright with the missles... but everything else?? Get with it.

You might aswell rename the game while your at it.... I know!!!! "SpaceShips -- Online!!!"

I got anouther suggestion... rename the Armageddon "The Space Dildo" and the navy issue "The Better Space Dildo"... and then i'll shove it where it belongs... which dev first????


Thanks for getting my blood pressure going!!

egh, seems needlesly pointless to me

Firstly some meta level mods are preferable over others because of more than just "does more damage\resists"

Also,
Things have names, deal with it.
Unless we're going to rename cocaine to arrogance powder, canabis to lethargy weed etc.

Do not create Experimental or Protoype but create Calibrated, Enchanted and other names ? LOL

Dumb
Dumbers
Dumbest

Not need name changes. Not need Limited and not need Calibrated or other idiotic names too.

Really ? They were confused with old names ? I dont think so.

But they will be confused when they trying to find any modules and they see on internet other module names on killboards, on the websites which trying to help for newbees with old and great FAQs (e.g. I.S.K manualbook). This is the first problem with this name changes. This changes would be make more mess to the game.

The second problem is, the old players will be confused too, because they playing with 7-8 years long this game and these player memorized the old module names.


Don't fix what ain't broke.

But why not fix what is broke ? Such as supercaps problems, ship problems like a EW frigs or gallente commandship, lag problems, overview problems, 0.0 problems, Tech moon problems, cloak problems etc.

Fixed that for you.

Alternatively, force him to play the game and give everyone his location, and a full cargohold of Widowmakers

Uh, go to the market. Find me heavy assault missiles. I won't bother waiting, as I have things to do other than wait forever.

Assault Missile Launchers are just light missile launchers that cycle faster.
Heavy Assault Missile Launchers fire assault missiles (not heavy assault missiles. which don't exist.)

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Assault_Missile_Launcher_I
http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Heavy_Assault_Missile_Launcher_I

Ok, here we go

Hardwiring implant name changes - excellent. Love it, makes it easier to tell what they do without sacrificing flavour and fixes something which was commonly whined about

Armor/Shield resist module name changes - makes life a bit easier for new players, makes market searches easier for everyone...removes a tiny bit of flavour and requires re-learning a few terms but generally not really bothered, overall prob a good change

Launcher name changes - I can understand the reasoning...personally I find the new names confusing and unneccessary after 8 years. I could live with the change though

Module meta level names - What the f$*& are you thinking? Utterly utterly horrible. You ask if it removes too much flavour from the universe.....how could it not? How many different item names and pre-fixes are there in the database.....and you want to replace ALL of them with 4 words? It was crap enough on the mwd's (not to mention the horrible and utterly unnecessary missile name change which only serves to further remove flavour from the game and more importantly makes me take longer to see which missiles i need from a hangar since all the names are the f%&*$&g same), how on earth do you want to do it everything else? If the main arguements are simplification and helping new players well: a; there are more existing players negatively affected than there are new players to be benefitted, b; simplification for its own sake is needless dumbing down and well....simplification...and c; how about focusing on teaching new players how to show info and compare items if complexity is really the issue? Personally I've learnt vast amounts about the game by studying item infos and comparing attributes. This is not a case of complexity for complexity's sake; this is for the sake of sci-fi flavour, immersion in the game, general differentiation, avoidance of boredom and other feelings i've yet to work out how to elucidate in a sufficiently biased fashion. [insert well thought out arguement about it buggering up existing backstory and game fiction here, not to mention killboards, game guides etc etc here

On further consideration I actually find CCP's view of our mental capacities as implied by their perception of a need for this global name change fairly insulting

I'm trying my best but I don't thinking I can adequately emphasise just how horrific an idea I think the meta name changes are; in any form.

I'm not quibbling over the confusion between the new naming scheme, since prototype and experiemental are the same thing, or that 'limited' makes an item sound worse than t1; but rather vomiting over the whole scheme and the spurious reasoning behind it. I'm sure there are better ways this dev team's time can be used; I'd have thought that if you find yourself trying to find ways to fix things that aren't broken then it's time to find something that is instead.

It's just not necessary. Why are we re-arranging deck-chairs? Would anyone argue that the world is needlessly complex and could be improved upon by re-naming everyone Tom, ****, Harry and Jane? We have fairly sopisticated brains that are capable of remembering more than 4 words.

[constructive suggestions: if you want to draw more attention to items meta levels and make it quicker and easier to see then what about just adding an 'm' designation to existing names? i.e. Fleeting M2 Warp Disruptor (not very elegant and I still don't like it, but it's less horrible that the proposal). Or perhaps adding a new info tab to items; 'Meta Level'? not wonderful ideas I know.]

They all have the same names.

Another example being speed module names; previously it was easy to see how many mwd's/ab's i had in a hangar and at what meta level. Now I glance at a hangar and all I see is "Experimental 100mn" "Experimental 100mn" "Prototype 10mn" "Prototype 10mn". With the old naming system I would see "quad lif" "lif" "y-t" "y-s8" etc as the start of the names allowing me to instantly tell which were ab's and mwd's, now I can't. That's aside from the fact that the new names don't make sense to me....is prototype better than experiemental? I don't know. Of course, I can see as soon as I look at the show info window (which was always the case anyway) but the idea is that the naming simplification makes things easier and more intuitive, so far, in my experience, it's the opposite.

Also another point I don't think I went over sufficiently; the current naming system encourages people to actually read module infos, do their own comparison and generally put themselves in positions to actually learn more about the game and thereby deepen their experience. Over-simplification encourages mental auto-pilot, compexity encourages immersion and education.