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I was referring more to the polarization of the community over their stats/function than their name. Agreed that the dislike of the first two names was pretty uniform.

There. That wasn't so bad now was it?

Now.

About 'ample' modules...

I like how dear devs release stuff which will not change anything in meta game and then invite community to discuss stuff's titles as if it was really interesting and important issue (so community wouldn't ask simple questions like "do we need this thing at all? Maybe there are more important and interesting issues?").

Brilliant move to create an illusion of active development and community's participation in the process \o/ Politics work like that.

p.s. How can one polarize cannons? Missiles? Polarization is a property of light.
p.p.s. I'm not even sure if there are cannons and missiles in this update - that's how "interesting" is this announcement (I didn't check it past "high price" phrase).

Serious question: if you think there's currently too little tradeoff between tank and gank (which I assume you must, since I can't think of another reason for putting these weapons in), why not just tweak the stacking penalty on damage application modules instead?

Currently there's basically no reason to use more than three damage modules on a ship ever, unless there's literally nothing else you could do with a slot. If you reduced the stacking penalty on damage mods / tracking computers / etc, people might occasionally judge it to be worth sacrificing a tanking slot for a little more damage application. These proposed weapons seem like an extremely heavy-handed, extremely impractical (mods will be prohibitively expensive given the scenarios in which their stats might make them a superior fitting option) way to try and shake up the tank/gank equation.

Give the polarized guns a +50% DPS bonus with no effect on resistances, but cause the ship to immediately incur (and prolong) suspect status whenever one or more of the modules is installed. Consider them "black market" weapons.

Because being a suspect in null sec matters? this would be the forced norm for all nullsec? No thanks

The weapons as proposed means that you have to make a tactical consideration and adaptation. Not just make a choice weather you want to fight or not.

Yes they will. What they won't do is replace existing guns as the main weapon of choice. Their general usefulness will also go down with the ship size increase, since larger ships have to rely much more on raw tanking ability. Even with them you'll still find some odd potential use cases like the lvl 3 mission blitzing mach. I mean if your non-existant tank isn't stressed and only the speed+DPS combo matter, why not choose to reduce your tank in exchange for even more performance in the areas that matters.

Exactly.

People keep evaluating them in terms of "If I take this regular fit and put these guns in I loose al my resists and now this fit sucks"
But these are not a replacement for all the turrets already in EvE.
These are for making glass cannon fits people make already better.

Not for making any old fit you're using for something else better and replacing all weapons in the game.

That said I think these 'polarised' weapons need to loose the range nerf, I'm curious to see what the new versions are like this evening.

Hooray! CCP implemented something I suggested.