Player Features and Ideas Discussion

1) Have the items keep their original names. Old players are happy, old softwares are happy.

2) Add an aliases SQL table, with the new names in a field and item ID in a second field.

Now, have 2) be searched first, then 1). You may now add as many new names you want without losing anything good of the past.

3) Improve and add value and make it actually simpler to search for items as follow:

a) Create two tables: tags and tags_details tied in master detail or implement any free text search engine.

b) For every item create a tag master record and fill tags_details so that they point to it and may have N records attached to the tag master.

Basically like popular search engines you will attach multiple tags to items so that players can search for things like:

missile medium thermal (or thermal medium missile etc)

turret large em ammo

THIS will make the game easy for the new players not dumbing down the names while still making it hard to find them.