EVE General Discussion

Yes. lets scream WOW for every change CCP is doing to lessen the learning cliff of EVE. After all, you managed to learn these names. so why cant those wortless noobs do it. Better to kick them back to WOW so we can have EVE for ourselves.

enlighten us about the consistent naming scheme of items in WoW

(oh wait, wow doesn't have a consistent naming scheme on anything but green items with random stats)

I did miss that, thanks for pointing it out. Not that I'm happy about it.

I think you underestimate the value of names though. Learning the nomenclature of a game is part of learning how to play the game. I used to create little euphemisms for certain things so that I'd remember them. For example, Mjolnir, market search "Mjo", like Mojo, blue torpedo = EM damage. Never forgot it. It helped me connect to the game in a small and practical way, and building up those small connections cumulates into a larger connection with the game. And that's going to be out of whack for me until I get used to the new system.

Yes, Yes, No.

It wasn't necessary, but it was useful. Sometimes I just want to tell at a glance how powerful or valuable a particular item is. Instead, I get a Hypoflux Capacitation Expansoid Interface System or some crap like that. That is not good for readability.

Change is not inherently bad. I welcome similar changes for ALL modules.

Wowification meaning, simplification of an online game as to appeal to such a wide and casual audience that any substancive meaning is lost.

Those are not a lot of words to remember. And, as I said elsewhere, when you specialize you further limit that number. And when you're changing your specialization you have another learning curve to overcome. There is nothing wrong with that. This is (ok, was) EVE.

I should benefit from this because I never remember the names of specific... anything, and always have to go through the market browser or double-check the info page.

I still feel a little better with the old names, it might have been more beneficial to just have the icon for the item appear next to the search result or whatever instead.

My NDA prevents me from revealing a number, but it's enough for me to lose all the T1 Rifters I want, forever.



Yes, because some purely aesthetical changes to the naming scheme are equivalent to creating a microtransaction system encouraging more people to buy PLEX.

I don't even know why I bother being a forum warrior mercenary, sometimes. Oh wait, that's right. The pay.

Reading over the thread, I honestly can't comprehend what people are bitching about.

Naming conventions are being made simpler. It's not even a nerf to the game's complexity. It is LITERALLY a removal of flavor text in exchange for readability. How could any of you not support this? Is it simply because you're now going to have to memorize new names? Hey, guess what! If all meta levels get renamed and equalized, you'll only ever have to remember one prefix for each meta level! For 95% of your modules it'll just be {meta_prefix} {module_type}. That's a hell of a lot easier than the current clusterfuck naming convention we've got going.

Repeat after me: Change is not evil. Change can be good. Sometimes, a change will inconvenience us slightly but pay off far more in the future. This is one of those times. Memorize the four missile names and move on. Hell, I already have, I think. What is it, Trauma, Nova, Mjolnir.. Inferno? Or something? There, I now know the damage type for every single missile, rocket and torpedo in the game, even if I've never seen it before. Glorious! Yes, more please. Fixed prefixes for meta levels. Bring it on. Bring it ALL on.

Turn the change back on module and Missile Names!