EVE General Discussion

[bittervet]

Was there a topic like this before CCP changed the missiles too? Because I would LOVE to read all the comments of the community about it being a bad idea, not making it more clearer AT ALL. Complaints about ret-conning stuff in EVE that's had perfectly functioning names for over eight years without anyone playing longer then a month complaining about it.

Which CCP would then have totally ignored and turned it into generic garble of discriptions anyway.

I suggest CCP also start renaming all ammo. 'Antimatter Charge S' can become 'Very Short-Range Small Hybrid Charge', and Plutonium 'Short-Range Small Hybrid Charge' and Lead Change M into 'Average-Range Medium Hybrid Charge'. I bet you can do even better with those horribly confusing projectile ammo. I mean 'EMP M'? That's waaaaay to short and non-descript for utter newbies and stupid devs to remember what it is.

Becomes lot more clear doesn't it? Now I want the read to look back into that block of text and quickly pick the types of ammo I just named. Which ones do you find the easiest? Not the names fitting CCP's 'new and improved'.

I'll admit I don't know the exact meta naming for lazorz, but that's because I never really used them. I'm Caldari, I could name every single missile before CCP stamped on them. I do know the meta 4 lasers, they be good sellin', the rest goes into the recycle bin anyway. If I really wanted to know the meta, I WOULD SIMPLY LOOK IT UP. It's not that hard, FFS!

Perhaps if CCP was honest about trying to make the stuff a bit more transparent, instead of getting a boner out of some OCD-driven urge to turn all names into generic bland descriptions, they should just put little chevrons on the icons for meta 0 to meta 4. There I fixed it for you Gnauton! Get some graphics flunky to draw them up and go do something more useful with your time.

[/bittervet]

Actually the hybrid and projectile ammo types tend to be pretty good on the description end.

For hybrids - the range of ammo is determined by the density of the ammo material.
Projectiles - EMP seems pretty straight forward since it does primarily EM damage, Phased Plasma does heat etc. Some of the mid range/long range ammo can be confusing but how often do people use the T1 versions anyway?

Don't forget to change Heavy Missile Lauchers into Medium Missile Lauchers, otherwise your homogenization will fail, and poor noobies will have to think or something.

Change what you want, but DO IT ONCE!

Make a list of changes, gather feedback, anounce final list of new names, publish it BEFORE releasing the patch, then do all in ONE patch and be done with it.

Reason is simple - now every patch breaks up killboards. All I care in this game is PvP, so this is ruining my gameplay since I have problem with posting mails.

DO
IT
ONCE

Not every week, ffs!

That's all you really needed to change tbh.

Creating an API for module names is a solution too.

In terms of naming conventions on guns i honestly believe the best thing you can do is standarise the names of the meta modules.

I remember when i first started playing and getting extremely confused around the fact that prototype was good meta 4 for gear fr hybrids yet it was crappy meta 2 (i think) gear for projectiles.
Combine this with a separate 4 meta names for lasers as well and you've got over 12 different names that people need to learn and memorise across all the 3 main weapon systems.

Standardising this would make the lives of all new people a hell of a lot easier. I would argue the actually naming of the guns takes secondary importance to the meta names.

May I suggest Strobe over Gatling.

Gatling sounds like projectile stuff but Strobe is something you can only apply to a laser.

Unfourtunately This would almost call into the question about the laser turret models matching names.

So standard missile launchers would be light missile launchers? There are alread light missiles, uh..

And rockets would be hahaha missile launchers.

The current laser names though could get confusing unless you had some sense when buying and looked at the categories (or slot size if it was in inventory).

I think the "adaptive" part is superfluous - both it, and "invulnerability" both infer what they were trying to get across: this module protects against various damage types.

For the rest of your post... I disagree that the names are ok. At the very least they need to change the SIZE of the lasers to reflect the fitting size.