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Krell Kroenen
The Devil's Shadow
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Posted - 2014.10.22 15:22:26 -
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CCP Goliath wrote:I'm asking this only because I'm interested in words generally, and am likewise interested in the strong reaction to "blighted".
(Disclaimer: I have no skin in this name game, am not participating in the discussion that Paradox describes, I have no influence one way or the other over how items are named, and I don't feel strongly one way or the other about "blighted".)
Blight is a word used IRL mostly to describe plant disease, and secondarily as a general description for something that has been spoiled or damaged. What about it gives you such a strong "fantasy RPG" feeling? Is it the Undead Warcraft 3 sprawl thing?
In my own day to day, I can't claim to have heard the word blighted used outside of the realm of fantasy or in biblical terms. To me the word blighted invokes other terms like, cursed, unclean, twisted, unnatural and mutated. Which is a short hop and skip to unholy , undead. And the most come source for something being blighted is by an evil entity or someone performing evil deeds and being tainted by them.
That's my 2 cents on it.
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Krell Kroenen
The Devil's Shadow
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Posted - 2014.10.23 15:01:10 -
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Bronson Hughes wrote:The more I think about it, the more I think that Blighted Weapons aren't meant primarily for existing ships. Sure, existing ships can use them but with a massive penalty.
I think the ticket is going to be T3 Destroyers and Blighted Weapons. I'd wager that the former will have some sort of role bonus in at least one of it's configurations disabling the heavy penalty of the latter.
Interesting concept but that is a lot of faith to have in CCP for having a logical reason for these weapons. I fear a lot of mine was used up when I saw how giddy they were on the o7 show about naming a module "ample". |
Krell Kroenen
The Devil's Shadow
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Posted - 2014.10.23 16:33:46 -
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I know CCP wants these weapons to be priced in the same ball park as their faction versions. But how can they be sure how much they will cost? If the demand for these weapons is lower than than their faction counter parts, but take the same effort or luck to acquire, then they will be cheaper than their faction equivalents will they not?
There is going to have to be some demand to drive up the cost, or they are going to have to be very rare in my opinion to keep their prices as high as CCP wants them to be. I have a feeling that CCP is going to botch this supply and demand balance at, least in the beginning.
But time will tell.
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Krell Kroenen
The Devil's Shadow
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Posted - 2014.10.27 19:03:35 -
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At first I wasn't sure if the new name was worse or better than the old one. But I have now decided that they are both equally poor choices. I guess CCP is just trying to find words that have the same meaning across as many of their supported languages as they can, flavor and logic be damned. And its just not the name of these modules that is lack luster, the weapon itself is so niche as to be nearly pointless and not worth the coding time/art resources to even put them in.
Maybe CCP should push this project back until they can do it right. Because as of right now this feels like a hack job so they claim that they put something new in to the game.
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