EVE General Discussion

"Heavy Assault Missile Launchers have become Assault Missile Launchers

Assault Missile Launchers have become Light Missile Arrays"

While I can somewhat see why you would want to simplify naming conventions for your modules, even if I don't agree with it, this is just stupid.

It leads only to confusion and serves no purpose.

Literally just posted this exact same thing at the exact same time.

Lolz. Yeah, this makes simpler because you see... We now have a class of launchers called Light Missile Launchers. They use Light Missiles. Light Missiles are also used in what is now known as Light Missile Arrays which specifically means that they use Light Missiles in an array type formation rather than simply launching Light Missiles. Wait, huh?

Who makes these decisions anyhow? Do they play the game? Do they know that by trying to fix A they didn't fix A and made B worse?.. This does nothing to remove complexity in the naming schema of launchers that use light missiles. CCP Gnauton, do you know the difference between ex-AMLs and ex-SMLs?

Edit: god, I couldn't even type this post without ******* up the names (also I'm tired). Edited blah blah.

See, that would be okay if one could find all launchers by searching for "launcher". Now you can't. This is dumb. Yeah, the old name was bad too because ex-AMLs don't use assault missiles, but the new name kind of spits in the face of the supposed goal of this project: making things more clear and obvious.

Rapid Light Missile Launcher, Accelerated Light Missile Launcher, Enhanced Light Missile Launcher even. I'm bad at names and won't pretend otherwise, but these at least capture the idea behind the AMLs.

rename to Light Missile Launcher Array

there fixed.

In sad times like these I'm glad I have 13m sp in gunnery and don't have to deal with all this renaming crap.

Don't you laugh Chribba, you should see what they have planned for mining lasers....

This is why we need search tags.

That way modules can be named whatever the frack CCP wants and we'll still find all launchers when we search for 'launcher'.

Profit?

Rest in pieces HAM Drakes, you have been demoted to AM Drakes :aura:

EDIT:
To clarify, tags would be an array of words (strings/chars) that is separate from the name and which are defined by relevancy.
Eg. the tag 'Propulsion' would be anything under the propulsion module tree; hardener is all shield and armor hardeners; explosive is anything that either deals or protects from explosive, etc...

By searching for multiple tags, you can narrow down the search.
Eg:
'armour hardener explosive meta3' would return just the meta 3 explosive armour hardener.
'armour hardener meta3' would return all meta 3 armour hardeners.
The order of the tags and capitilization in the search wouldn't matter.
Also allows you to define search terms based on terms such as meta, tech, gun size (eg. Large/Medium/Small) or weapon type (hybrid, projectile, laser, launcher).

I will call them Assault Drakes...

Everyone of you immature ****s however will call them Ass Drakes.

Don't pretend you won't.

Missile array... is that like a missile pod? That would be cool... Each array hold 5 missiles and you fire them all at one time. 15 second reload...