Repeating autocannon is a silly name.

I saw this mentioned elsewhere recently so I'll bring it up here since it seems reasonable...

Any chance Large weapons with the naming convention "Dual Medium Weapon" will be changed to use Medium sized ammunition instead of Large ammunition?

Weapons with the same calibre should use the same ammunition, no matter how many barrels they have.

Can you imagine trying to fit an ostrich egg into a double barrelled shotgun? The answer is a bad joke about making omelettes, but that's neither here nor there.



Example: a 650mm Artillery cannon takes medium ammunition, but a dual 650mm Autocannon takes large ammunition.

This.

It's like saying Automatic Autocannon.

Yet another change that nobody has complained about, another bit of immersion gone. The desire to understand and learn is a big part of the eve experience especially for noobs, we're all slightly poorer because of things like this.

Cold gas arcjet thrusters forever...

This is a very simple change, so I am just going to list out all the changes:

6x2500mm Repeating AutoCannon and all its variations have been renamed as follows:

• 6x2500mm Heavy Gallium Machine Gun
• 6x2500mm AutoCannon I

There is something just not right about a 6 barreled machine gun firing 2500mm slugs...

YAY Foxfour is back with his super vorpal sword of logic and justice!

Yeaah I'll have to agree here. "800mm repeating artillery" has way more punch than "800mm autocannon".

Same as "VM-15 Braced Multispectral Deflection Matrix" sounded way more awesome than "Limited Invulnerability Field I"

While the last was confusing, let's keep at least some awesomeness feeling to names.

and yet another nerf to Minmatar

By general feel of repsosnes, this was a BAD CCP move, once again, administrative mindset over gamers mindset, factory standards over art, homogenization over being interesting.

Bland... vs colored....

What about the aptly named meta 4 pulses?

"Mega Modulated Pulse Energy Beam I"

(this applies to all sizes).

one would have a hard time understanding wtf they are without looking at the stats or market categories.

I'd say it's more likely that the majority of players read the idea, think "Well... duh, that's an obvious change that needs to be made" and move on without bothering to comment. This isn't homogenization, it's removal of misleading language. Don't put the word "artillery" into an autocannon, just like you wouldn't put the word "blaster" into a railgun, or "afterburner" into an MWD.

My only complaint is about the CamelCase. Ew.

Do not call machine gun something that is NOT a machien gun. Anythign over 14mm is never called a machine gun! No matter how fast they fire!

What about the aptly named meta 4 pulses?

"Mega Modulated Pulse Energy Beam I"

(this applies to all sizes).

one would have a hard time understanding wtf they are without looking at the stats or market categories.

Do not call machine gun something that is NOT a machien gun. Anythign over 14mm is never called a machine gun! No matter how fast they fire!

We just don't need names that specifically mislead people into thinking a weapon is a different class than it really is.

This game has a class of weapons that are officially and technically called Artillery. It has a separate class of weapons that are officially and technically called Autocannons. These are useful distinctions for setting base expectations for what the weapons do and what skills they require. Don't put the word "artillery" into a weapon that is technically an autocannon, and don't put the word "autocannon" into a weapon that is technically artillery. Beyond that, I don't really care if you want to call them "machine guns" or "death cannons" or "Super Fantastic Automated Pony Launchers". We just don't need names that specifically mislead people into thinking a weapon is a different class than it really is.

if you can get confused by that.. I pity you.. and surely you are someone that should not emit opinions over anythign if you are so chalanged taht you can get confused by that.

We don't? Up until now no one had an issue with that.

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Sure they have. That's why it's now being addressed.