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I think this is a shame personally.

If this is the logical way to go why do we need ship names just call them names like Gallente cruiser tier 1, Amarr Battleship tier 3 etc?

Trust me if I can learn the current names of all the mods then anyone can.

Probably a good thing that I read this blog pre-coffee, because I feel the blood pressure going up and up.

First of all, changing nomenclature in a game that is 8+ years old with players of a similar duration seems asinine. What I see here is one name or adjective replacing the original name or adjective. How does this add value to your current and new subscribers? Is this intended to help with EVE's learning curve, perhaps?

Second, and I know it has been said before, you guys are not doing any favors to the ecosystem of 3rd party developers who have built up all of the apps that make EVE more usable and viable. As an end-user, I count on certain 3rd party efforts to make my time spent in EVE more efficient and successful. This initiative is not helpful in that regard.

Speaking only for myself, I find no value, but rather inconvenience and irritation having to suffer though this nonsense.

I won't go to fanfest just because if I'll meet that mf who renamed MY DAM SCOURGES to some whatewer 'trauma' is gonna get raped!

Someone hasnt bothered reading this entire thread. At about page 20 they said they are not changing target painters.

Here's a question that's been bugging me more and more: whom is this change supposed to benefit?

Before I get to it, I'd like to make a few comments.

I think the missile name change was on the whole a very good idea. Maybe there should've been some difference in nomenclature between rockets, missiles and torpedoes, and maybe "Scourge" should have been used instead of "Trauma," but on the whole it is now easier for all players to quickly find the right missile damage type, which is a good thing.

I also think the skill implant name change is good. It mostly preserves the flavor and uniqueness of the implants, but adds useful information so that it is easier to find the right implant.

However, the module name change doesn't seem to benefit anyone very much, for a very simple reason: no sane player selects directly from the market which modules to fit on a ship.

Older players, unless they're complete nitwits, use a third-party fitting tool like EFT or PyFA or borrow fittings from other players. The actual fitting of a ship occurs completely out of game, where the name and nominal meta-level of the modules is irrelevant, since third-party tools already present all relevant module stats and their effect on the ship to the player. Adding the meta level of a module to its name would be completely superfluous. A player who fits the ship in EFT doesn't care about the name of the module he needs for the purposes of selecting it, and he most certainly doesn't care whether the meta level of the item is in the game, because he is looking at specific stats and not at an imperfect proxy like meta level. For example, if the EFT fitting for the ship I'm flying calls for a "Large 'Regard' Power Projector," I'm going to search for that module on the market and fit it, unless I cannot afford it, in which case I will go back to EFT and look at the next-best item and see if it still works, because lower-meta modules have higher fitting requirements. In either case I won't care one bit whether you change the name of the above module to "Large Awesome Energy Transporter," so long as it shows up properly in EFT. So older players aren't really going to benefit from this change in any way.

Newer players might look on the market for modules. Such players however also do not really care about module names, for two reasons. (1) They usually cannot afford anything but the lowest-meta items. (2) If they are smart, they will look at fittings from other players, and copy those, in which case the names of the modules are irrelevant for the reasons already stated. (3) If they are really smart, or simply ask in help chat, or ask their corp/alliance members, they will be referred to a third-party fitting tool and will become like older players mentioned above and will not care about module names, just what the modules do.

The only time module names will matter is if the player is browsing the market categories, or looking up variants on the market or via the "show variants" function. Two changes will help players in such cases much more than any name change. (1) Sort modules in the market by meta level rather than by name; this way it will be readily apparent which modules are "better" than others. (2) Allow players to jump directly to a module's market category by right-clicking on a module name. EFT already does this, and so does PyFA most likely. This way a player can quickly look up different-meta modules and see the prices for all at a glance.

So for both older and newer players, module names shouldn't be causing problems. If you really want to help out new players, direct them in the tutorial to third-party tools like EFT and PyFA. Ideally such tools should be integrated directly into EVE itself, but that's not entirely necessary. Also make the market search more powerful, change the sorting of items on the market, and maybe even change module icons to indicate meta level. There are a myriad of ways in which you could make it easier for new players to fit ships and find modules, and all of them are better than homogenizing module names.

At the same time, a wholesale name change will break all of the fitting guides that have been written for EVE. Considering the extent to which EVE relies on player-written guides, ask if breaking all of those guides is something you really want to do without a very good reason. A wholesale name change will also significantly reduce the feeling of EVE as a real universe. Ask if that is something desirable, considering how often CCP proclaims the importance of immersion in EVE.

And if are still planning on overhauling all the module names, please at least consider all of the alternative proposals that have been put forth in this thread. I do not object to the idea of making this game easier for players, especially new players. I do object to the manner in which you are going about it.

i suggest they put it back the way it was. or make it more confusing.
whats the point of a game if no ones on their toes

-1 for thinking too much about gross simplicity and not enough about retaining the sci-fi flavor of the game. This is almost as ridiculous as renaming "light sabers" to "blue swords" in Star Wars, or retconning Star Trek to rename "phasers" to "guns".

"Catalyzed Cold-Gas Arcjet Thrusters" simply sounds much more interesting than "Limited 1MN MicroWarpdrive I".

If you insist on incorporating the meta level in the name, then simply add it to the existing name, ex. Catalyzed Cold-Gas Arcjet Meta-2 Thrusters, as you are proposing to do with the hardwiring implants.

-1 for renaming Armor Coating/Armor Hardener/Armor Plating Energized/Shield Resistance Amplifier/Shield Hardener modules.

These modules are already consistently named and the names already indicate the damage types which they affect.

It is simply not necessary to include the actual damage type in every module name. You might as well suggest changing weapon names, too - ie. lasers to "EM/thermal guns" and hybrids to "thermal/kinetic" guns.

this, pretty much.

also, +1 to all the comments mentioning you're breaking EIGHT YEARS worth of guides.

God dammit CCP either

Make the names ACTUALLY easier to follow

or leave them alone

These changes are not good.