Ships & Modules

That is great news. Please focus more on creating a naming convention that makes sense the first time (or in this case 2nd or 3rd try) and I believe you will end up with happier players.

As long as we can keep the medium term away from small turrets, the rest of the naming stuff can wait, that should be solved at least because it is confusing.

Still with the "apply to everything" bit. This is bad. Keep weapons, at least, tied to racial properties. Eve is cool in part because it's otherworldy. Keep that otherworldy in and don't homogenize weapons. I want Amarr people to be ashamed for fitting clunky, mechanical, jury-rigged guns to their ships. I want to feel in-character pride for my races clear technological refinement and superiority.

It would not be hard to do this racially; either with a number designation, a per-race naming scheme, or a UI solution that leaves you free to name them anything you want. Just don't flatten the racial qualities of racial weapon types. There's been a lot of great, Amarr-specific suggestions in this thread. I assume this means that this general idea is widely shared even though it's only been stated explicity a couple times. So posters, please comment on if you want racial differentiation or not. If a majority want the flat system, I'll stop complaining.

While a cross weapon naming convention may seem like a good idea, take a lesson from the Universal Inventory.

You are on the wrong path.

It waters down the game and makes it less interesting. One company may make the GSCF-1 and the GSCF-2 but would every company? or would they have different names for their products?

For the purposes of searches and learning, i would prefer that each meta term be secondary to the flavor name of the turret itself. and that flavor name be different for each type of weapon system. but the same across each variation of system

IE this is the current scheme, in meta order 1-4
Blasters. regulated, limited, anode, modal
Railguns. Carbide, Scout, Compressed, prototype

Artillery. Carbine, Gallium, Prototype, scout
Autocannons. Carbine, Gallium, Prototype, Scout

Beam. Afocal, Modal, Anode, Modulated
Pulse. Afocal, Modal, Anode, Modulated
{ Launchers are different in that they also have naming convention nonsense happening, and should be aligned, but not with turret systems.}
With the names, Anode, modal, scout and prototype all being used for different meta levels.

I propose meta 1-4
Hybrids. Limited, Scout, Carbide, Regulated
Projectiles. Prototype, Compressed, Carbine, Gallium
Lasers, Afocal, Modal, Anode, Modulated

Which i know will draw issues form people (like me) who have long since memorized the names of the higher meta weapons.

also an issue i see is the cross use of the words beam, maser and laser on some of the laser weapons. and medium and heavy for the same set of weapons.
Specifically for the laser weapons, I propose, (medium sized weapons)
Heavy Afocal Beam Laser & Heavy Afocal Pulse Laser
as opposed to the current Heavy Afocal Maser I & Heavy Afocal Pulse Maser I

(small sized weapons)
Small Afocal Beam Laser & Small Afocal Pulse Laser
as opposed to the current Medium Afocal Maser I & Medium Afocal Pulse Maser I


For the tier within in the sizes, (lasers, beams) there is actually, several different types that are shared between the small medium and large classes,

the light, the medium, Focused medium, heavy, mega and tachyon.

Small - Gatling, Dual light, medium
Medium - Quad Light, Focused Medium, Heavy
Large - Dual heavy, Mega, Tachyon

I see this as a bigger issue the the cross use of meta names on different turret systems, or modules in general.
It is only the use of the "Light" turret type, (dual light and quad light) that throws off the normal naming convention that is present in all other turrets.

Swap the name and animations of Dual lights and medium (small turrets)
Change the name of "Medium" to "Light"
Change the name of "Focused Medium" to "Medium" (medium turrets)
Problem solved.

I felt that i had to post this again as it seems to have been glossed over before.
Do not over step your reach, sometimes it is ok to take small steps.

Agreed. Whenever looking at a pile of modules and wanting to pull my dreads out I just click "Compare" and then "Meta Level." That tells me everything that I really need to know right there.

Heck we can even make this simpler:

You make a basic Meta 1 item, that's a Thingy 1.0

Meta 2? Thingy 1.2

Meta 3? Thingy 1.5

Meta 4? Thingy 1.7

Got a T2/Meta 5 blueprint? Build yourself a Thingy 2.0

I like a lot!

...now if only amarr ships could fit their proper sized turret instead of so many having to undersized. ;)

and nobody thinks that Strobe would be a better name for rapid firing lasers ? sheesh...

Perhaps you could rebalance scorch whilst you're there it adds way too much range and lower the pg too?

He seems to ignore me very often he makes me cry

So after reading this thread it might be the wrong crowd to appeal to but as a new player fitting is one of the most confusing unintuitive things in the game, Since the tiericide of ships is eliminating the other huge barrier at least for me.

For instance i didn't know until reading this thread that meta levels were strictly better versions of weapons i had assumed they were side grades like less damage for better fitting room on cpu and power grid. The current schema from a new players perspective looked like this to me.

Limited = Less damage but less power grid cpu usage
Upgraded = More damage for more power grid and cpu usage
Experimental = More damage less stable
Prototype = More stable version of the experimental more damage

for the cases of afterburners replace damage with speed and that's how it seemed to me. So i pretty much have only bought the base versions of stuff until i could use the tech 2 version. Unless i needed or had extra power grid and cpu.

The meta system is extremely convoluted for what seems to a new player no other reason to confuse and frustrate. Anything to make the differences of modules clear would be better. Even knowing there is a hierarchy to them would be immensely appreciated i think by new players.