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Lasers. Names. Changes. Please read before reaching for your weapons.

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Sanadras Riahn
Turbo Nuclear Pirate Punch
#321 - 2012-10-17 13:16:17 UTC
Nikodiemus wrote:
Crassus Detlator wrote:

A lot of people was concerned on losing some of the rich lore from eve, and considered this sort of changes to be s "dulling the game", and I cannot disagree 100% with that. To somehow keep the lore nameing, and make the modules a little more distinct, we could use the same logic for the meta levels, replacing "Gatling" for the other flavour word of choice. Something like this:

  • Small Gatling Pulse Laser I
  • Small Experimental Afocal Pulse Laser I
  • Small Limited Modal Pulse Laser I
  • Small Prototype Anode Pulse Laser I
  • Small Upgraded Modulated Pulse Laser I
  • Small Gatling Pulse Laser II



Quoting for justice and substance, this man has a good point. Replacing the gatling with another pretty laser word keeps a lot of the flavor of the old names while making more sense.


The only issue with that idea is that the "Gatling" portion of the weapon name in "Small Experimental Afocal Gatling Pulse Laser I" (good god, that's a mouthful) is technically the weapon "size", a la 650mm Duals or 800mm Autocannons. Those turrets have an advantage in that "bigger number means bigger gun", but is more difficult to pull off with lasers.

If you wanted to keep the flavor (which I agree with, as I love EVE Lore), you'd have to replace one of the words with the size of the weapon. My suggestion:


  • Small Gatling Pulse Laser I
  • Small Gatling Afocal Pulse Laser I
  • Small Gatling Modal Pulse Laser I
  • Small Gatling Anode Pulse Laser I
  • Small Gatling Modulated Pulse Laser I
  • Small Gatling Pulse Laser II


That way, you keep the idea of "Small, Medium, or Large" for ease of searching ship type, then weapon size/type, followed by Meta indicator, then Short/Long range variant.

That's my vote, anyway. Though if you wanted to get almost reminiscent of Battletech, you could just flat out rename them to:


  • SGPL I
  • SGPL-01
  • SGPL-02
  • SGPL-03
  • SGPL-04
  • SGPL II


a la the classic "C ER MPL"... But that's just going in an entirely different direction. You'd have projectiles looking like L800AC-04s and L1200AR-01s...

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Elistea
BLUE Regiment.
#322 - 2012-10-18 10:28:33 UTC
Name change will definitely help, mostly to new players.
Old names are kinda random and not very fitting.
However when i look at the excel tab with new names i feel kinda sad.
No more uniqness, headaches while fitting meta mods - kinda ruins the whole"exploration thing".
All in all i may not agree but i understand why are u doing this.

PS: DONT touch Target Painters!!! Best easter egg ever.
Tobiaz
Spacerats
#323 - 2012-10-18 13:11:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Tobiaz
Professor Clio wrote:
Spriral sounds weird, but other than that, more logic in naming conventions is great. I always thought that whoever came up with these names did it to confuse new players :/


New players soon enough become old players, and then they learn to value the fact that mods have unique names, instead of a bunch of generic prefixes.

It also isn't that much of an improvement when it comes to making mods easier to distinguish. Missiles are a good example of this. Now everything kinetic is called 'scourge' with a load of prefixes, instead of simply 'Thorn' or 'Bloodclaw'.

Helping newbies is a great thing, but it should be done by improving the tutorials and easing the learning curve. Not by dumbing down the rest of the game.

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