Ships & Modules

I still think "limited" is kind of a silly name if the idea is to imply that it's better. When I was picking blasters for a frigate once, I chose Limited blasters, and because of the name coupled with the decreased PG/CPU requirements, I assumed they were weaker.

...Actually, all the new names make them sound unstable/untested/less-good. I vote we use Upgraded, Overcharged (or Extended in the case of projectiles), Enhanced, and Bespoke.

Other than that all good :)

Yeah, I seem to remember (perhaps in my imagination) that some of the meta small blasters had "I" after them then randomly others didn't. This affects all of absolutely nothing in the game but its just a random inconsistency. And yeah, consistent names would be p cool but I'm just trying to say keep in mind that most of us are lazy faggots who don't want to type "gatling modal pulse laser" or "experimental 10mn microwarpdrive" I love that whenever I need a prop mod now I just type "1mn m" or "1mn a" and then I have all the frig sized ABs/MWDs pop up. If you're going about fixing names, please make sure its as easy as possible for me to be as worthless and lazy as possible. While we're on the subject, this may not be your team, but for the love of God separate the Browse and Search bars again.

TYPO: "likes"?

Aside from that, I'm all for weapons getting their names sorted. It'll also be nice to know a "modal whatever" is the same meta level small laser as it would be medium or large, instead of how it is now.

Personally, I would get rid of the "I"s on the end of the meta variants too.

You want to standardize everything in this game.

CCP FoxFour

In real life, the strength of a laser is often expressed in watts. Watts is a measure of the amount of energy per second they can put out.

For example this article speaks about a megawatt laser: http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-01/navys-free-electron-laser-weapon-takes-big-leap-forward-powerful-new-electron-injector

Hybrid and Projectile turrets already have their barrel diameter in the name (ie. 250mm Railgun) why shouldn't lasers carry their wattage in the name? It fits nicely into a science fiction universe. The gigawatt values here very roughly reflect the actual energy consumption of the lasers too (though your resident physicist could certainly do a better job than me).

So this my proposal:

Frigate lasers
Light 2 Gigawatt Pulse Laser (formerly Gatling Pulse Laser)
Light 3 Gigawatt Pulse Laser (formerly Dual Light Pulse Laser)
Light 4 Gigawatt Pulse Laser (formerly Medium Pulse Laser)

Cruiser lasers
Medium 10 Gigawatt Pulse Laser (formerly Medium Focused Pulse Laser)
... (if it existed, this laser would be 15 Gigawatt)
Medium 20 Gigawatt Pulse Laser (formerly Heavy Pulse Laser)

Battleship lasers
Large 50 Gigawatt Laser (formerly Dual Heavy Pulse Laser)
... (if it existed, this laser would be 75 Gigawatt)
Large 100 Gigawatt Laser (formerly Mega Pulse Laser)

Capital lasers
X-Large 500 Gigawatt Laser (formerly Dual Giga Pulse Laser)

After that you, can add the usual meta prefixes (upgraded, limited, experimental, prototype)

Distinctive features of each turret, such as certain laser turrets having 2 "barrels", can be acknowledged in the description of the module.


Edit 1: and before somebody says the gatling pulse only uses 1 GJ per shot, how can it put out 2 GW? Well, 1 GJ over 0.5 seconds (a brief pulse) would be exactly 2 GW.

Edit 2: for best market-search results, this naming scheme is even better: "2 Gigawatt Light Pulse Laser".

Edit 3: Aamrr suggested to abbreviate the wattage. 50 Gigawatt Pulse Laser becomes 50GW Pulse Laser. I like shorter module names.

Yep, using watts or something like it makes a lot of sense.

(Holy crap I'm posting on the forums for the first time in ever.)

I'm fully in favor of renaming things to make more sense. Giving things names that are easier to remember what is what is something that, while the app and tool creators would probably be vaguely annoyed about, in the long run I think the benefits outweigh any potential inconvenience.

That having been said, there was a mention upthread about DUST weapons having different naming conventions. Given that I don't have a PS3 and won't for an appreciable while, this isn't so much something that's on my radar, but I think there's definitely something to the idea of having uniform names between EVE and DUST, if for no other reason than to make things just a touch more logical (I know, shocking idea) on people that play both, get hooked on EVE from DUST, and on combatant commanders that are trying to coordinate both ground and space combat.

Capacitors are charged in like Giga Joules or some such **** so naming them by Watts would A. Lead to boring as all hell names and B. Quite on the contrary, it would make no sense whatsoever seeing as Watts measure power and joules measure energy, I think ou lost a t somewhere in that naming convention of yours.

The only real name change I have announced so far, since Gatling is still Gatling, is Medium to Focused. The rest of it, the formatting of the meta levels and such, would still apply to using wattage in the name.

For example the 75mm Railgun is:
75mm Carbide Railgun I
75mm Compressed Coil Gun I
etc.

So the meta level information still needs to exist. I would be interested in knowing if people would prefer the lasers have names, such as Gatling, Dual, Focused, etc. Or wattage numbers.