EVE Information Portal

We all adapted. CCP you need to realize you dont need to adapt to the rest of the worlds mmo model. I DONT CARE IF we are niche and we dont get many new players. The complexity eliminates 13 year olds from this game.

Do not worry people - CCP will go ahead with this change no matter what. Casualties will be silenced and buried under the new shiny highway of new improved eve online where communication is in back burner (again).

Renaming assault missile launcher to light missile array is stupid. imagine how drake kills BS with light missile arrays, witch i presume will fire light missiles. That will not work, not at all.

BTW meta 1 should be limited and meta 4 innovative or something like that, just not prototype and experimental, that's basically the same.

Ok, I'm all in favor for streamlining the names of the various mods. But for the love of everything that is good and just don't make them into something so bland.

There's something special about the existing names. I can still remember how much fun it was to parade around in something fitted with things like "N-type reactive membrane", or those fancy sounding Cold-gas Arcjet thrusters. Despite the fact that they were only meta 4 modules it still felt like something to gloat about.

As others have mentioned before, many MMOs and RPGs have employed fancy names and it adds to the atmosphere and feel of the game. It's pretty reasonable to say that, for example, something named "Dork's Sword of Unholy Nerd Rage" would sound better compared to something named "Large Sword +3 with flame runes and stuff" even if it is the same damn thing.

There are many naming conventions that have been suggested that still streamline the names whilst still keeping that interesting and unique feel that the various mods already have.

+ 1 for ideas like "Prototype Carbide 250mm railgun" or "Converted 250mm Compressed Coil Gun"

-1 for things like "limited 250mm railgun"

Internet spacehips is serious business.

Is CCP devs responsible even reading these?

This renaming is crap.

Why?

Easy, it's called memory patterns.


We won't recall differences between very slight differences but we recall diverse and unique labels. It's also the mechanism used in "branding" (you want to say you have a Gucci purse, not a "mildly experimental purse").

Therefore calling something "upgraded" says very little, they may as well say "meta 1".

Saying Catalyzed Cold-Gas Arcjet Thrusters is a very unique (and cool) name, you'll have higher chances to recall it's an enhanced AB than just flagging it with some generic adjective.

When I get a shiny axe in another MMO, it's called [Slayer Of The Ages], not "experimental Axe" and these are MMOs for 13 old!

Why does EvE have to do WORSE than a 13 old MMO?



Why are you borking NAMES when you could fix the actual T2 invention 10000000 clicks windows and finally streamline the damn game for real?

Can you imagine what happened if Blizzard did a similar change to WoW?

We'd be running around wearing stuff like:

"Legendary Staff ilvl 397"
"Epic Cloth Helm ilvl 378"
"Epic Plate Belt ilvl 397"
"Rare Leather Boots ilvl 346"

It'd be so much easier!

The Lord of the Items (me) hereby vetos the module rename.
(implants are still go though)

What did you think of my purposal a hybridized approach.

What baffles me is that there isn't a response in here from CCP (or in the other threads on the Eve-o forums about this change) saying "Huh... so we could probably make everybody happy by doing a hybrid of the old and new names, providing more clarity and retaining the sci-fi feel of our game. Let's do that!"

Such a painfully obvious path to take on this one.

So true! And Paradise! "Your Paradise Cruise Missile hits LolBoat for 9001 damage" (j/k, I don't actually use those, but I always appreciated the name when it pops up in NPC damage notifications.

Many objects of war have srs bzness names and more... ahh.. whimsical names (for the lack of a better term; "whimsy" isn't something I'd use to describe war). What's wrong with incorporating stuff like "Bloodclaw" and "Bane" and whatnot into names alongside a damage type descriptor? It's not like people often type the name of the whole thing anyway, though I admit that loner strings might be problematic for displaying on kb's and EFTs and the like.

I haven't changed "Scourges" to "Traumas" on my nerd spreadsheets because it just doesn't feel right, Scourge is so much more menacing than lol brain trauma.

Are drone names next up to get hit by the sledgehammer? I mean, it's not like "Ogre" tells you right away what damage type it does even if you know what damage type "Hammerhead" is. Please don't hurt my little Hobgobs And if not, please justify the logic of removing unique names from missiles, but keeping drones intact. Also, what about hybrid ammo? Shouldn't that have range modifiers in the name somewhere? Uber Short Range Charge S, etc.