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Here's some sarcastic moaning for you:

Great job! Kill more flavor - make the game more generic!

Sometimes I don't think you guys can distinguish between real functional issues with the game and the flavor that makes EvE an interesting universe.

Having different missiles names at different levels is just part of the flavor.

Have to split this post (5 quotes limit):


Oddly enough your example against unique names is exactly the opposite:
These names do NOT describe the same 'product'. These are names for different flavours of the same base machine (Super Hornet is an upgraded Hornet, Growler serves a complete different role - EWAR, etc.) These names help to distinguish the different versions and scenarios of usage!
On a sidenote: Grizzly is just a "backup-name" for the Growler cause it sounds to similar to Prowler, the predecessor of the Growler. So even the military already knows it is a bad decision to use same or even similar names for different stuff...


Do you see how boring your little quiz will get after the renaming?

On a bit more serious note: This example of yours is part of the so often claimed player skill/knowledge (you remember, EVE isn't just about who has more skillpoints, real good things can only get achieved with skills of the player behind the pilot, blabla)
Btw, why should the scout remember inferno better than any other name?? Especially if the damage type is already included in the (unique!) name as proposed by many in this thread here...
Btw², in such a scenario you deserve to burn horribly

Thats what the pilots call them. If you purchase them its a whole other story

I still don't get what is wrong with Trauma as a missile name?

Ladar Jammer
Radar Jammer
Warp Space Discruptor
Warp Field Scrambler

There are dozens of ways to go into naming uniformity.

As long as they avoid the +1 shenanigans which I am afraid they are going to do with words like advanced and prototype and experimental.

Odd I distinctly remember pilots calling missiles 'birds' on all the shoot ex videos.

"Birds away."

Thing is about the nicknames is that they're not required for advancment or earning your rank on the knowledge boards matter of factly if you dare call anything that isnt its military specification number or miltiary designation you will get thrown out of that review board.

The F-18G is what I was referring to and you left out Rhino expliantion

The entire series is known as the hornet regardless of the technology and revisions within this is a money saving manuver way to convince the non military portion in congress its the same bird.

Hornet is what F/A -18 A-D are called on the MC in the flight pattern inbound allowing for the proper technicians to be ready to welcome it back to carrier.

Baby Hornet is technican's term of endearment for the F/A-18 A-D. Its also the specific term for any of the F/A-18 A+ which oddly enough is also another made up desgination by the technicans to sperate classic F/A-18 As and the F/A-18 with advanced electronics on par or beyond the F/A-18Cs.

Super Hornet is the nickname for any of the F/A- 18 E-Gs given to the public. They're known as Rhinos in field though due to thier size and a couple of tell tale features.

The G variant of the F/A-18 earned its new designation when it was warrented that a new airframe was required. If that wasnt the case it would have been another F/A-18F. Originally named the Growler after the EA-6B Powler the bird the "Growler" would be replace was quickly shot down by the brass because when you say Growler and Prowler inbound over the microphone and there are jet engines and other machines running it all sounds like "Owler inbound" so the Technicans shot back with another one the Grizzly going in theme to indicate its a larger bird than the hornet. Event then that is not final and even then its still just a super hornet on the bill of purchase.

Makes me wonder when they shove out the new builds though all the technicans are already jokingly calling it an 'Ultra' Hornet.

Close to a decade of minmatars had fun with people suddenly realizing "repeating artilleries" are actually autocannons.
Why deny future generations?

Arent all guns in one shape way or form related to each other to the point you can simply name it description + previous item?

Like all railguns could just easily be chocked blasters.

I think the names are to prevent autolinker from linking every possible type of resistance module in existence related to the damage.

Well here's where CCP screwed up with that.

They didnt do it for the gun ammo either.

They didnt do this for all the variants of the same missile either.

I mean why does a dread guristas missile have to be same name as the caldari navy missile.

You'd think Cal navy would like make one Rabbit Killer and the Dread Guristas Dead Rabbit missile. While us 'civillians' get stuck with Rabbit missiles. Then tech 2s getting thier own names instead of just fury and rage name em like Harechaser and Usagi missiles;

Ultimately they didnt do this at the beginning but not here to what if.

If they ever did it this way then anytime I type in a auto link Ill only get two results.
The blueprint and the item itself. Which would be nice but I cant remember 12,000 names I have a hard enough time with 20.

Currenlty its extremly bad when I guess the number of an implant and its entirely wrong.

There are over 150,000 different npc entities I rather start there.

Also it is a rifter, there is some stupid database call up that ID's the advanced versions as such however I think they removed it recently with carbonization though giving them proper call ups.