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Somal Thunder
Intergalactic Peace Organization
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Posted - 2009.03.26 12:45:00 -
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This has got to be the new worst named skill in the game. First of all, Rangefinding isn't a word. Second of all, it sounds like something some poorly educated person would say - EVE Online, being a game of maths, economics and science, should not condone such language.
I suggest we rename it back to Triangulation. Triangulations pretty much means finding out where it is by using range, so why not just stick to that?
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Sleepkevert
Amarr
Rionnag Alba
Against ALL Authorities
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Posted - 2009.03.26 12:55:00 -
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Because people where whining about triangulation. EVE doesn't use trilangulation, more like multilateration or even more precise quadlateration. And since quadlateration is even worse then rangefinding...
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Roemy Schneider
BINFORD
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Posted - 2009.03.26 13:01:00 -
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sure, but i'd still prefer something uncreative like... idk... astrometric analysis, or whatever, over rangefinding 
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Temitten
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Posted - 2009.03.27 09:28:00 -
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Yes, agreed, rangefinding is horrible.
Something like astrometric analysis, or plain advanced astrometrics would be much better.
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Tippia
Raddick Explorations
BlackWater.
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Posted - 2009.03.27 09:36:00 -
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Edited by: Tippia on 27/03/2009 09:35:58
 Originally by: Somal Thunder
This has got to be the new worst named skill in the game. First of all, Rangefinding isn't a word.
No, but it's easy enough to see how it's a neologism built on ‘rangefinder’ and thus understand what it's all about.
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I suggest we rename it back to Triangulation. Triangulations pretty much means finding out where it is by using range, so why not just stick to that?
Well, triangulation gets everything wrong about what it actually does. Triangualtion also does not use ranges to find out where stuff is — it uses angles (hence triangulation).
As above poster said, the proper word would be quadrilateration — four probes measuring ranges, not three probes measuring angles.
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