You know I'd understand the annoyance with the simplification if the old names presented any useful information about the item whatsoever. Like, if from the name Cold-Gas Arcjet Thrusters, I could somehow deduce something about the item from that name alone.

But you can't. Cold-Gas Arcjet Thrusters tells me literally nothing. It doesn't even tell me what KIND of module it is - It's probably related to propulsion. That's about as close as it gets.

What horrifies me is that CCP might actually listen to the people complaining about this and we'll be left with Hydrocarbon Flux Assistance Protocol Mainframe Interface Drive Capacitor Warfare Field Stasis Systems for all of eternity, because some of you apparently really like random prefixes.

Banana to Tomato is an arbitrary name change. Neither tells me anything.

If I know that all kinetic missiles have the prefix "trauma", that tells me something. It means I can predict the names of future kinetic missiles. Even if a new class of missile comes out that I've never seen before, I'll be able to tell the kinetic ones from the thermal ones because the kinetic ones will be named "trauma".

I'm really having trouble grasping why people are complaining about this. Of all the changes, of all the things, it seems like one of the pettiest complaints I've encountered.

When did simplification and clarification become bad? When did obfuscation become a good thing?

Even if you can tell the names of every single module off by heart because you've been running around the market for years, that's not a reasonable burden to impose on every other player noob.

Support good moves, called a fanboy. Criticize bad moves, called a troll.

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Four new prefixes. One for each meta level.

Four words.

Four.

You are telling me, with a straight face, that every single newbie, every player who hasn't cared to memorize the hundreds of arbitrarily named modules in the game, every single person who has ever had to right click to get the meta level or search the market for an item name, all of these people should just go screw themselves because the Eve playerbase should not be obliged to learn four god damned words.

So basically you ran out of valid arguments?