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Pinky Denmark
The Cursed Navy
Tactical Narcotics Team
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Posted - 2012.08.17 12:00:00 -
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I know 3 things:
Having a "limited" meta item being better than a "upgraded" meta items is super confusing and doesn't make sense for me and any other person I've talked with...
It should be T1 -> limited -> upgraded -> experimental -> prototype (Advanced???) -> T2
Be careful not having too long names (The implants could easily lose the "inherent" part...)
Make sure most modules get to keep their unique nick names!!
Removing nicknames for generic meta description names often makes it incredible hard to make fast search for unique items... Each category of items should have a unique nickname attached to them that doesn't mix up with too many other categories.
for missile launchers the malkuth, limos, xx-xxxx and arbalest are awesome and I would hate to see those going away.
"Arbalest" would result in about 7 results only instead of a word like "prototype" and name wouldn't be half the length of what implants have...
With blasters I think it is fair to have names changed to indicate their weapon size (light/small, medium and heavy)
Keeping the different tier names to electron, ion and neutron is a definite must!
As the blasters have the unique tier names and no current nick names they can do without...
Having a "light prototype neutron blaster I", "medium limited electron blaster I" makes good sense :-)
With pulse lasers you could easily revamp the names as most people find them super confusing:
light / medium / heavy + limited / upgraded / experimental / prototype + unique name + pulse laser I
unique names could easy be: scattered / focused or strike / impact (rather than afocal)
If I was handling all this I would take it 1 group at a time doing both short range and long range at once...
I think for most weapon types you should have space to have unique names within only 1 category to avoid confusion:
missiles : malkuth, limos, xx-xxxx, arbalest
Pulse : find new name like suggested or call them a unique size measured in MW
Beams : find new name like suggested or call them a unique size measured in MW
blasters : electron/ion/neutron should be good enough as a unique
Railguns : unique size should be good enough as a unique
(however I would consider renaming to avoid conflict between 125mm and 150mm)
Autocannons : unique size should be good enough as a unique
Artillery : unique size should be good enough as a unique |
Pinky Denmark
The Cursed Navy
Tactical Narcotics Team
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Posted - 2012.08.17 12:02:00 -
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Also the implants would be so much easier to find in containers and hangars if you switched around in the name sequence and removed some of the long names...
Putting EG-601 first instead of last would make it so much easier for us |
Pinky Denmark
The Cursed Navy
Tactical Narcotics Team
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Posted - 2012.08.19 01:06:00 -
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A color code like a colored bar below each icon for each meta would be pretty cool :-)
As long as it's discrete and colors are selected carefully... |
Pinky Denmark
The Cursed Navy
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Posted - 2012.08.22 14:28:00 -
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GSPL-01 etc made me puke a little...
The suggestion about class1, class2 is so much better.
You could also find a short unique name insted:
meta 1 : 'odor' upgraded small pulse laser I
meta 2 : 'blista' limited small pulse laser I
meta 3 : 'burna' experimental small pulse laser I
meta 4 : 'zappa' prototype small pulse laser I
like a brand name from companies or something... Those acronyms will take away the spirit of Eve and when everything has it make it very difficult to get a good overview on your modules...
You definately have to keep the laser unique names seperated from the hybrids.
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