Rigging: has all the skills related to rigs that previously were in the GÇ£MechanicsGÇ¥ skill group.

Contains the Armor Rigging, Astronautics Rigging, Drone Rigging, Electronic Superiority Rigging, Energy Weapon Rigging,Gallente Defensive Systems, Hybrid Weapon Rigging, Jury Rigging, Launcher Rigging, Projectile Weapon Rigging and Shield Rigging skills.

A few comments.

CCP should really make an effort to make EVE more beginner-friendly, no doubt.
Some skills like Multitasking and Nanite Control ought to be renamed, because the name is utterly misleading. But.

You are going way to far with this concept.

As many before me have already stated, many of the proposed name changes are uninspiring.
Space Ship Command should really be spaceship command. Really, what's the point?

Also: Every name change that you do also has a NEGATIVE impact on the playability. Simply because all ressources on the web will be outdated.
I have experienced that over and over again with previous renamings (e.g. Auto-Targeting Missiles).
Maybe a newbie didn't get what a F.O.F. missile was.
But a newbie with some minimum cleverness managed to throw that expression into Google and whoa - here we go.
But try to find something if the name has changed during the last two years...
I am really sad about what happened (not) to Evelopedia. I used that A LOT, that was one of my primary ressources when I was a noob. But now it's utterly useless, because each and every single ship and item has been rebalanced.
That should of course not imply that you stop rebalancing because of Evelopedia - God forbid!
But it shows the effect.
There should be only things renamed when it'S REALLY necessary.
And maybe it would also be noob-friendly to update Evelopedia.

That said, I for example always thought it was good that some skills (Electronics, Engineering, Social...) had the same name as their category. That way I would always know which one was the "basic" skill in the category which I needed to train first.
The one that has the most impact on what I was doing.
Compare Electronics (+5% CPU) to Target Breaker Amplification (+?% weird nonsense).
Anything that makes it more likely that new players put their energy into the important skills to let them get into the game faster is a good thing.

Poor Chribba is gonna have his work cut out updating Eveboard after these changes

Naah, Chribba strikes me as a halfway decent programmer, so I doubt he did something so foolish as to hardcode names on everything.

....right?

Change the groupings. Move Thermodynamics and Weapon Upgrades to Engineering etc. Thats a good idea.

DO NOT chage the names of the skills! Thats a bad idea. Stop dumbing this game down. We play this game because its the only complicated MMO left out there. It's really starting to worry me CCP.

Please?

FFS anyone who would come to EVE and stay because the skills are easy to remember is just going to quit when they get owned/scammed repeatedly anyway. These are the people that try the game and ragequit because its "too hard" or my favorite "it's boring". When they say "it's boring" that's poseur-gamer speak for "I don't understand".

MAKE OUR GAME HARDER NOT EASIER.

Maybe I should just go back to tabletop gaming....

Rigging: has all the skills related to rigs that previously were in the GÇ£MechanicsGÇ¥ skill group.

Contains the Armor Rigging, Astronautics Rigging, Drone Rigging, Electronic Superiority Rigging, Energy Weapon Rigging, Gallente Defensive Systems, Hybrid Weapon Rigging, Jury Rigging, Launcher Rigging, Projectile Weapon Rigging and Shield Rigging skills.

I felt so enraged by some of these name changes that I had to repeat this here (also posted as a side-comment in the command ships thread):

I spend hours of my life living in the scientific wonderland of Eve and now they're giving all my stuff play-school names?

Spaceship Piloting? A pilot is a noun. It's a ship or light for providing guidance. It's not a verb. The verb is "command", "control", "guide", "operate", even "fly". It should be "starship command" or "spaceship (at a push) command".

"Capacitor Transferer"? Do me a favour and f*ck right off! "Energy Transfer Array" is the correct name.

Maybe we'd like to rename the projectile weapons to "Bullet Transferrers", or the Laser weapons to "Light shiners", or maybe tractor beams could be renamed "Wreck puller thingies". Yes, let's rename missile launchers to "things what chuck out other things that go BANG!".

Someone in CCP needs to take a long, hard shamefaced look in the mirror, and then pick up a book and educate themselves.

Out-f*cking-rageous!

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• Energy Management, Energy Emission Systems and Energy Systems Operation: have been renamed "Capacitor Management", "Capacitor Emission Systems" and "Capacitor Systems Operation".

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I felt so enraged by some of these name changes that I had to repeat this here (also posted as a side-comment in the command ships thread):

I spend hours of my life living in the scientific wonderland of Eve and now they're giving all my stuff play-school names?

Spaceship Piloting? A pilot is a noun. It's a ship or light for providing guidance. It's not a verb. The verb is "command", "control", "guide", "operate", even "fly". It should be "starship command" or "spaceship (at a push) command".

"Capacitor Transferer"? Do me a favour and f*ck right off! "Energy Transfer Array" is the correct name.

Maybe we'd like to rename the projectile weapons to "Bullet Transferrers", or the Laser weapons to "Light shiners", or maybe tractor beams could be renamed "Wreck puller thingies". Yes, let's rename missile launchers to "things what chuck out other things that go BANG!".

Someone in CCP needs to take a long, hard shamefaced look in the mirror, and then pick up a book and educate themselves.

Out-f*cking-rageous!

Yeah me neither. That's due to the fact that English isn't my mother tongue but it was the closest I could come up with.

+10

Dude if I could click the like button more than once I would. Cold -Gas, Arc Jet Thrusters forever... No to more dumbing down!

That's one stupid argument.
so people wouldn't have to google the recommended list of skills is gonna make them sob when they make mistakes? sure..all the changes looks perfectly good to me. finally Science won't be the dumping ground for every new uncategorized skill.