Ships & Modules

I honestly like the naming scheme the way it is. It (to me at least) makes the game seem that much bigger. Actually checking the info on guns and reading through the stats, even if it's just skimming to find the meta level makes them more interesting, as it requires more thought and attention.
If the names do end up being changed, please do not use the standardized "Limited, upgraded, experimental, prototype, blah blah blah" names.

As Captain Praxis put it...
Ideally each type of module (propulsion, ewar, armour, shield, and so on) should have a unique meta-name scheme that makes sense for the type of module being named.

This is the way it should be done.

(Upgraded/Limited/Experimental/Prototype) + (Light/Medium/Heavy/Mega) + (Beam/Pulse) = Win

I kinda like "Strobe" over "Gatling" too. It doesn't make much sense to rotate the barrels on a laser gun.

I like this idea but I would also like a consistent use of Afocal, Anode, Modal and Modulated thru out all guns, i.e. lasers, hybrids and projectiles making them all equal prefixed for meta level.

I would however consider making the prefix for metalevel a uhm whatever it is called when it is in the middle. This might be neccesary for traders and people with very large ammounts of mixed guns.

Gatling Small Afocal Pulse Laser (m1)
Gatling Small Anode Pulse Laser (m2)
Gatling Small Modal Pulse Laser (m3)
Gatling Small Modulated Pulse Laser (m4)

Fixing things that are not broke again.

Imo if its not broke dont fix it, dont get me wrong there is some things out there that **** with your head.

I am looking at 800mm repeating artillery which is actually an autocannon but its a "repeating" artillery so it makes some sense.

I really thing the game should stay the way it is with the naming, the implant changes where nice and made sense. Dont take away the individual prefix of stuff just to dumb it down for people who cant take in simple pieces of text.

New players browse the market, and find it under the category for small lasers, and then put small crystals in it, and then find that they can fit it on their frigates. When I was a new player, I never thought about it. It's purely a source of "who's on first?" confusion, and is actually part of the character of lasers -- that they're supposed to be oversized weapons.

a specific name for laser types would be okay, but it musn't be used on another weapon type.

i remember that meta4 hybrid and meta3 projo (or the opposite) had the same name, while not of the same meta... and you talked about this happening between hybrid and laser on your first post so please, avoid that.

the laser name should tell us easily what size it has, what tier it is, and what meta level it is.

I've been annoyed with the naming scheme since Day 1.

Small repper, small nos, small ammo... MEDIUM laser?

Obviously The lasers are inperticualy confusions since you start with medium lasers by name which are small and some spellings needs correcting.

Though as an old vet it seems that you guys are simplifying things to a point where your removing all those nice little names you gave mods to make them 'have there own style' i will have to admit that if the future idea is to make Everything

Upgraded
Limited
Experimental
Prototype

It does simplify things, but for people who bother to check stats either in game or using the multiple out of game tools, everyone knows the meta levels of said names.

And you'd kill some of the old Favorited like the PWNAGE
among other just well named mods considering the vast amount of mods in the game

Just my 2cents

Fixing spelling though i would agree kinda needs to be done by now - even rookies learn fast how the system works.

Large Asymmetric Barrier Transpositioner I is epic name touch that and il find you..oh lazors..don't care..oops.

Sorry, really busy wrapping up the end of this sprint. For now we are going to rename a few of the lasers, Medium Pulse Laser for example, to remove the confusion about what size it is.

We did have some meetings internally and we are unwilling to move forward with any mass renaming until we have a naming convention that is solid and we can apply to everything. This is not something we want to rush, it is something we want to talk about a lot and get right. To be honest we will never be able to come up with something that makes everyone happy, but again we need to be confident in it ourselves, it needs to be robust enough to be expanded upon when we add new stuff, and it needs to get to all modules and not be started and forgotten about after touching only a fraction of the modules.

So for now, only a few small changes to be made. :)