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Implants Names changes are a great improvement.

Module Names suck due to the fact that not all items have all 1-4 metal levels in the game that is one thing.

The others is you are replacing unintuitive prefixes with a generalized unintuitive prefix.
In my opinion you are complicating things or merely half way solving the problem, generalization is good but why not just put MT1-MT4 in front or back of the already existing names this will keep the established names that have been around for years buy also add the Meta Level tag for quick reference.

Best place would be at the end of the name!

Why is this better?

- Names remain unchanged and this leaves you again with the freedom to come up with god knows what names.
- Meta level is there for quick reference.
- Old players are happy that they can keep the old habits while they get the improved meta tag.
- Both search by meta tag and normal old names remain simultaneously
- Old Killboards can e easily fixed/ Killmails can be fixed by simple queries.

- Resists should also keep they're name and could get a resist prefix besides the end Meta tag.
- This keeps old flavour but also adds the resist type: EM/KN/TH/EX/AD - Electro Magnetic/Kinetic/Thermal/Explosive/Adaptive
- This would create the generalization without removing the old established names.

All around focus on ADDING Value instead of Replacing VALUE.


What you did with the propulsion modules was quite bad now its harder then before to sort them.

Contrary to what you believe the prefixes you chose are too long and unintuitive. The shorter and the more direct the better.

Besides short suffixes also clears DB storage space in the long run and makes communication less hard on bandwidths, is a WIN-WIN-WIN situation ;)

I like this. I like it a lot.

It's a good compromise between the cool stuff and the perceived need to fix a few bent nails with a sledgehammer.

This would work too. Keep the flavor text and add the unified description of the meta level. Maybe someone learned from the loss of the much loved YT-8?

Some time ago, someone, somewhere put a lot of effort into all those names and they do add a nice flavor to the game and there is a rhyme and/or reason to most of it. Sure "Anode" might mean meta 3 for some guns and meta 4 for others, and maybe *that* is something that could use fixing. But please don't yank all the nice names in favor of "Experimental Thingy" like you did with ABs and MWDs.

Non standard melons!

1) Have Firefox
2) Install Lazarus plug in (saves anything as you type it and will restore it at a mouse click).
3) ...
4) Profit!

I have this genius "I took 3 seconds" idea to actually help newbies for real.

1) Newbie wants his new afterburner

2) He opens market window where there's one innovative element: "show only usable" (like almost every 2003+ other MMO does).

3) He clicks said checkbox.

4) Searching for "afterburner" or expanding the corresponding category in the tree view will only show what he can use. Optionally, add an ORDER BY META_LEVEL clause in the returned items.

Done. No pixels will be harmed in the process.

If you have to simplify meta levels, just add the new naming as a prefix, for example:

Upgraded 'Malkuth' Cruise Launcher I
Limited 'Limos' Cruise Launcher I
Experimental XT-9000 Launcher I
Prototype 'Arbalest' Cruise Launcher I

Of course, some weapons already have "Prototype" in their names,:

1400mm Prototype Siege Cannon
425mm Prototype Gauss Cannon

Just keep that format.

Or is this what you are already planning?

Edit: Just saw that this had already been suggested

I too would like to see [new prefix] [old name] for meta levels. Seeing meta levels at a glance makes my life easier at times, but the fancy meta names are fun and retaining them will a) keep a lot of out of game resources still reasonably current and b) save a lot of bittervets the confusion and forumrage recently caused by the missile/prop mod rename. I have always been sad in my heart of hearts that T2 modules have such plain names compared to meta mods.

Also, if you are re-examining missile names, registering desire for just putting the damage type into the old name instead of using a blanket name for damage type across all missile types. Flavor and function!

Reporting cultural issue:

To my non-English speaking ear, "Limited" sounds completely inferior to "Upgraded".

Why do a I want a "limited" effect rather than the "whole" one? And since when something that is not even full or complete is better than something "upgraded"?

I personally do know enough English to know that "limited" also means "non-standard", but I assure you that this is not what will think a non-english speaking player reading that some implant is "limited" vs an "upgraded" one.

It would be way clearer this way:

Meta Level 1: Standard

Meta Level 2: Improved

Meta Level 3: Experimental

Meta Level 4: Prototype

And it would make all sense in the world this way:

Meta Level 1: Standard

Meta Level 2: Improved

Meta Level 3: Elite

Meta Level 4: Experimental

Why? Because prototypes are clumsy and prone to break down = inferior stuff. It took long unitl I read the stats of "protoype" weapons to learn that they are actually better than the Meta 1.


But hey! Don't take my word for it! Just ask your players who don't speak English as a first or second language!

How about we change the ship names ?

Gallente cruiser
Upgraded Gallente cruiser
Limited Gallente cruiser
Experimental Gallente cruiser

Or how about ammo ?

Small hybrid charge
Upgraded small hybrid charge
Limited small hybrid charge
Experimental small hybrid charge
Prototype small hybrid charge

Still looks good ? After all there's nothing in the ammo name that has any correlation to it's attributes.

Hey how about "Small kinetic/thermal/explosive projectile charge" ?