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Trebor Daehdoow
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Posted - 2012.02.29 16:26:00 -
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While I'm sure we all have quibbles about particular name choices, the overall goal of consistency is a laudable one, and Gnauton deserves some +1's for taking on this non-sexy but useful project.
+1
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Trebor Daehdoow
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Posted - 2012.03.02 11:39:00 -
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CCP Gnauton wrote:While there've been dozens of good (and a few very good) suggestions for alternative schemes, the proof is nevertheless in the pudding. Look at how many different schemes you guys came up with. Look at how different they are. Look at the disagreements amongst yourselves on which of them is the most intuitive. Everybody has different associations with all of these words,so in the end the fact remains that any word scheme will to some extent be arbitrary and prone to disagreement and confusion.
The only way to avoid these inevitable confusions is to encode an unambiguous sequence into the naming scheme, either explicitly (ie: Enhanced M1 "Phased" 1MN MicroWarpdrive I or Enhanced +¦ "Phased" 1MN MicroWarpdrive I), or implicitly by having the level prefix names in alpha sort order (A,B,C,D...)
For example (just off the top of my head):
Augumented
Boosted
Catalyzed
Developed
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Trebor Daehdoow
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Posted - 2012.03.02 14:32:00 -
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Tiger's Spirit wrote:Oh no another stupid standarized name ideas. Because dump pilots we loss the sci-fi feeling for the game.
It's time to change the ships to MK1/MK2/MK3/MK4 because some pilot not have brain and cant do thinking.
Sorry, I don't buy into the "It was hard for me when I was a lad, so it should be hard for you now" argument. This was the same argument that was trotted out when the Skill Queue was introduced, and when Learning Skills were nuked.
Complexity can be good, but needless complexity is anathema. And being forced to memorize a bunch of arbitrary meta-level word encodings is needless complexity.
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Trebor Daehdoow
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Posted - 2012.03.02 16:38:00 -
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Tiger's Spirit wrote:Who need memorize ??? Everyone need two click to see any item Variations and anyone can see the item names.
This is too hard for them ? But they need more simplified solutions.
The very fact that you think you have to do that -- click to figure out something that should be intuitive -- illustrates exactly the point I was trying to make.
The essence of great UI design is providing interfaces where you don't have to click, you don't have to think, you don't have to remember, you just know.
I would be perfectly happy with a naming system where there were a dozen prefixes for meta-1 items, all starting with the letter "a" - advanced, augmented, accelerated, assisted, abetted, etc. Because I could still see at a glance, without thinking, without remembering, that it was meta-1.
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Posted - 2012.03.02 21:02:00 -
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Grey Stormshadow wrote:Each time you defend wide scale name changes you will lose more CSM votes than gain them. Bad politics.
I have a track-record of saying what I think without worrying to much about the effect they might have on my re-election chances.
Hopefully, this appeals to people who would prefer to support a candidate who says what he thinks, rather than what he thinks the voters want to hear.
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Trebor Daehdoow
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Posted - 2012.03.02 22:00:00 -
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Grey Stormshadow wrote:Yea you will get re-elected... you're very active in forums and keep people updated. That is the main reason why one of my accounts has usually thrown you a vote even we don't always agree about everything :)
Good. I want people to disagree with me -- having people continually tell me I'm correct is boring. I want my positions to be challenged, and if your argument is strong enough, I'll modify my position without a lot of emo.
It is only by vigorous and fair debate that interested observers can get a good sense of the issues and the merits of proposed solutions. In this forum, those interested observers often have names that start with "CCP" 
PS: don't assume I'm a lock for re-election. I certainly don't!
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