... Missiles: We still do firmly believe in the usability of a single name across all missiles of a given damage type, but the "Trauma" designator seems to have violently struck a nerve with several of you guys. Since this is early days for this project, anything is possible. If anybody can come up with a sufficiently convincing and objective reason for why this name is the infernal love-child of bad taste and cluelessness, then I will seriously consider changing it. (I'm thinking something like "Anguish" might be good, whaddaya think? Just kidding, I like being alive.)..

Confirming I actually like trauma missiles

I also like the idea of items being named with the following scheme:

'(nickname)' (meta indicator) (type)

'arbalest' prototype cruise missile launcher

you should still reconsider the meta indicators and the launcher names, but you will gain ease of access without loosing flavor

All praise Gnauton, for he hath saved our PWN, PWNT, PWND and PWNAGE!
<3

Hmm a names for a kinetic missiles.

meh
Anvil
meh
Anyways thank you CCP for taking a chance to step back and review the module naming execution.

Missiles: We still do firmly believe in the usability of a single name across all missiles of a given damage type, but the "Trauma" designator seems to have violently struck a nerve with several of you guys. Since this is early days for this project, anything is possible. If anybody can come up with a sufficiently convincing and objective reason for why this name is the infernal love-child of bad taste and cluelessness, then I will seriously consider changing it. (I'm thinking something like "Anguish" might be good, whaddaya think? Just kidding, I like being alive.)

Missiles: We still do firmly believe in the usability of a single name across all missiles of a given damage type, but the "Trauma" designator seems to have violently struck a nerve with several of you guys. Since this is early days for this project, anything is possible. If anybody can come up with a sufficiently convincing and objective reason for why this name is the infernal love-child of bad taste and cluelessness, then I will seriously consider changing it. (I'm thinking something like "Anguish" might be good, whaddaya think? Just kidding, I like being alive.)

Zainou 'Snapshot' Heavy Missiles HM-703.....


is still a mouthful

change to just acronyms so this one would be:

Zainou 'Snapshot' HM-703


after all any idiot can figure out the acronyms for skills

In the past, i've searched for y-t8 if i want to find the best named cruiser sized mwd.
Now, i've to search for experimental and find a sh.it ton of stuff or i have to search for experimental 10mn what is ******* long to search.

Then just search for "10mn m" and you will get the list of all 10mn mwds, and that is freaking awsome.

Hi guys,
(including tooltips or other UI solutions that might serve the same function better).

I think "Scourge" has a special place because it is the ammunition used by drakes, and many of us have flown one at some point or other. There's not the same passion with the Cruise launchers, as none of the battleships are bonused to a specific type of ammo. You might get a similar effect if you renamed multifrequency or antimatter.

That said, I liked the flavour text associated with each missile name, and would much prefer the combined Scourge Kinetic Heavy Missile, which keeps the naming flavour (and unique name) and still completely defines the missile.

Hi guys,

...is the meta scheme really serving the player, and is the cost to flavor too great?...

*Facepalm

More renaming?

After all the uproar and complaints from your existing paying customers, you want to rename more modules?

Do you ACTUALLY listen or is the voice of Sony in your ear more influential?

Why not remove ship spinning again? if you really want to wind us all up?

Do you not understand that by the standardization of naming, you are removing the immersion from the game.

NEWSFLASH! Immersion is what gets people logged on for 15 hours a day, it's what makes people tell their wife they can't go out that evening as there is a CTA scheduled, it is what makes Eve such an awesome game.

By dumbing down the game, you are really, genuinely alienating your core user base, and honestly, it will not attract new players, it will not make people who have a short attention span suddenly stay playing after their 14-day trial ends.

Please, please, please, Reconsider your streamlining, concentrate your efforts on some worthwhile UI improvements, Streamline the way roles are setup in corps so they are actually easy to understand, Add some more nice shiny ships, Tier 2 Destroyers with E-War bonus, make the Scythe and Bellicose actual useful ships in the way Blackbirds and Arbitrators are.

Finally, please understand that we love this game (Probably more than you do) and that we spend huge chunks of our lives dedicated to playing it (again, probably more than you do).
The playerbase of Eve is an enormous resource for you, you can use it to make genuine, useful improvements. Or, you can change names of things that don't need changing and have a bunch of people on a forum whining about it.

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. This is not said in defense of my own scheme, because as you've continually (and rightfully) pointed out to me, it certainly has its flaws.

Boycott the changes! Save the PWNAGE target painter for future generations!