Capacitors are charged in like Giga Joules or some such **** so naming them by Watts would A. Lead to boring as all hell names and B. Quite on the contrary, it would make no sense whatsoever seeing as Watts measure power and joules measure energy, I think ou lost a t somewhere in that naming convention of yours.

While we are discussing metas, can we change the meta of prop mods so that they are all the same names for the highest existing meta? Its not a big deal, but its an annoyance every time I have to search the market for a prop mod

Ie, the best meta frig mwd is limited, but for 10mn sizes, its experimental, and for 100mn its prototype.

The new module names (limited, experimental, prototype) still make no sense to me as far as explaining how one is slightly better than the other. Please explain to me how a new or old player should know that a limited item has better stats than an experimental item?

I find myself searching the attibutes page looking for the meta level more now than ever before

If you really want to make this simple for us to understand and stop trying to confuse us with each new expansion go with something simple.

Meta 1 - Small Pulse Laser
Meta 2 - Medium Pulse Laser
Meta 5 - Large Pulse Laser
Meta 1 - 10mn Afterburner
Meta 6 - 100mn Microwarp Drive

so on and so on.

This can "take" for as long as you stick to a scale people are already used to. As in, meg, gig and tera. Small, medium and large.

Just saying.

I rather like the gigawat convention, but it should probably be abbreviated. 200mm turrets, 50GW lasers

Naming lasers after their power (Megawatt, Gigawatt, Terawatt etc) isn't a great idea give that:

A) They already have a power grid usage measured in Megawatts
B)They already have a a Cap consumption value, measured in Gigawatts
C) Their use of both cap and PG changes as skills and rigs are applied.

So you end up with a situation where a Laser's name corresponds to neither its power usage nor its energy cost (and overlaps with both), and doesn't scale with the damage it puts out.

nitpicking

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

as an actual scientist and a dedicated amarr pilot, I would love if the naming scheme followed actual real life laser conventions. For all the other gun types, someone can simply punch in a number, like 425mm, or 800mm or 220mm, etc. to find the gun they're looking for. So, lets use the same for lasers! Since real life lasers are measured by their power output in watts, why not do the same thing. If a true class IV (can cause serious injury) laser is about 10 watts, then:
small lasers:
gatling --> 100 kW
dual light --> 200 kW
medium --> 500 kW

...

And my problem with using number for lasers is this attribute is adjusted by skills, ships, implants, and I think boosters.