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[Proposal] Descriptive hardwiring names
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Takeshi Yamato
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2011-12-04 09:57:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Takeshi Yamato
Hardwiring implants have names that are not descriptive. For example:

Zainou 'Gnome' KTA10
Inherent Implants 'Noble' ZET330
Eifyr and Co 'Rogue' EY-1

I propose to change their names using the following format:
[Manufacturer] - [Effect] [Generation]

Their new names would be:

Zainou - Launcher CPU Reduction Mk. 1
Inherent Implants - Hull Hitpoints Mk. 4
Eifyr and Co - Afterburner Duration Mk. 3

The generation of an implant is determined as follows: the weakest bonus is Mk. 1, the second weakest Mk. 2 and so on. In this way we can immediately determine what an implant does and how strong it is without needing to check its description or attributes.
Max Kolonko
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#2 - 2011-12-04 12:54:47 UTC
Takeshi Yamato wrote:
Hardwiring implants have names that are not descriptive. For example:

Zainou 'Gnome' KTA10
Inherent Implants 'Noble' ZET330
Eifyr and Co 'Rogue' EY-1

I propose to change their names using the following format:
[Manufacturer] - [Effect] [Generation]

Their new names would be:

Zainou - Launcher CPU Requirements Mk. 1
Inherent Implants - Hull Hitpoints Mk. 4
Eifyr and Co - Afterburner Duration Mk. 3

The generation of an implant is determined as follows: the weakest bonus is Mk. 1, the second weakest Mk. 2 and so on. In this way we can immediately determine what an implant does and how strong it is without needing to check its description or attributes.


THIS :) Just maybe the names need little more love than changing to effect name, but current names just suck

Read and support: Don't mess with OUR WH's What is Your stance on WH stuff?
Cid SilverWing
Doomheim
#3 - 2011-12-05 15:00:25 UTC
Sensible. Intuitive. Very well formulated. I dig this. :)

+1
Iosif Dzughasvilli
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#4 - 2011-12-05 15:11:53 UTC
+1 for a good idea.
Lucius Arcturus
Peoples Capitalist Liberation Front
#5 - 2011-12-05 19:50:51 UTC
Zimmy Zeta
Perkone
Caldari State
#6 - 2011-12-05 20:15:40 UTC
+ 1

I'd like to apologize for the poor quality of the post above and sincerely hope you didn't waste your time reading it. Yes, I do feel bad about it.
doombreed52
TunDraGon
Goonswarm Federation
#7 - 2012-01-09 15:22:16 UTC
yes please looking for the one i want i have to click on every damn one do they want i us staring at the market more then usual?
Bumblefck
Kerensky Initiatives
#8 - 2012-01-10 17:06:05 UTC
I can't support this sorry - I like the fact that they all have names that are (at least in some of the cases) hint at what they do. For example, the ice mining implant sets are called 'Yeti'. It adds a little bit of mystique (not much though, admittedly).

Would you like the Typhoon to be renamed 'Battleship - Split Weapon System - Needs a lot of training to use effectively', or the Falcon to be renamed 'Force Recon - ECM - Will cause a lot of tears', or even the Rifter: 'Frigate - Autocannons - I win butan'

Nice idea though.

Perfection is a dish best served like wasabi .

Bumble's Space Log
Takeshi Yamato
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#9 - 2012-01-10 17:39:24 UTC
Bumblefck wrote:
Would you like the Typhoon to be renamed 'Battleship - Split Weapon System - Needs a lot of training to use effectively', or the Falcon to be renamed 'Force Recon - ECM - Will cause a lot of tears', or even the Rifter: 'Frigate - Autocannons - I win butan'


No, but I would not like to have my ships named

Roden 'Enforcer' ZX420

and neither would you.
Mars Theran
Foreign Interloper
#10 - 2012-01-10 18:17:45 UTC
I think the simple solution would be to remove the first part including the Corporation name and move that to description; unquote the name, and adjust it to be more suitable to the implant, and retain the last part.

MK 2 always reminds me of Star Trek; this is not Star Trek.

So it would be more like this:

- ARC ZMF 1000 - (Replacing: Zainou "Deadeye" ZMC 1000 - Missile Flight Time Bonus)

- ARC ZMV 1100 - (Replacing: Zainou "Deadeye" ZML 1100 - Missile Max Velocity Bonus)

- ARC ZHA 750 - (Replacing: Zainou "Snapshot" ZME 750 - Heavey Assault Missile Damage Bonus)

- ARC ZHM 1000 - (Replacing: Zainou "Snapshot" ZMH 1000 - Heavy Missile Damage Bonus)

Something like that anyway.

My issue with selecting implants isn't so much the name; as it is ignoring the broad spectrum tags like Snapshot, and sometimes indecipherable acronyms.

What does ZMC stand for, for example? First part is easy: Zainou Missile _. The C, I don't get.

The second issue I have, is the length of the name and quotes; as it makes for too much clutter, which results in poor readability.
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Takeshi Yamato
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#11 - 2012-01-10 18:20:28 UTC  |  Edited by: Takeshi Yamato
Mars Theran wrote:
MK 2 always reminds me of Star Trek; this is not Star Trek.


It's an engineering term. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_%28designation%29

It means 'version', 'model' or 'generation'.
Takeshi Yamato
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#12 - 2012-01-23 17:28:11 UTC  |  Edited by: Takeshi Yamato
Victory! From the patch notes:

Quote:
Hardwiring - Eifyr and Co. 'Gunslinger' LX-0 will now become Hardwiring - 'Gunslinger' Large Projectile Turret LX-001.


In case you're wondering, the 'Gunslinger' Large Projectile Turret LX-001 gives a 1% bonus to damage.

Thanks everyone for supporting this.