This has simplicity written all over it...

Give lasers a megawatt, gigawatt, something-awatt power rating that increases logically.

Simple. Elegant. Effective.

/thread

Large Lasers:
Not much to comment about, it's pretty straight forward (read: people will rage if you touch their Tachyons ).

SMALL BEAM LASERS
Beam lasers SHOULD NOT hold the "Gatling" term (it's pulse lasers specific), please don't screw around trying to homogenize everything with the term "Gatling".
The original term is fine. See:

Dual Light Beam Laser I
Dual Modulated Light Energy Beam I

Light Beam Laser I
Light Modulated Energy Beam I

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SMALL PULSE LASERS
Simple continuity from the beam version. "Gatling Light" inserted for improved clarity.
See:

Gatling Light Pulse Laser I
Gatling Modulated Light Pulse Energy Beam I

Dual Light Pulse Laser I
Dual Modulated Light Pulse Energy Beam I

Light Pulse Laser I
Light Modulated Pulse Energy Beam I

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MEDIUM BEAM LASERS
Again, remove the term "Gatling" from the beam laser family. The quad laser is probably the most confounding due to its name. It just needs a small and simple touch. "Solid-state" is an ungraceful name, some better alternates are "Positron/Antiproton" (the reasoning for this is to aim for a loose association with the next level tachyon beams), but I'm in more favor just sticking in "Medium". There may be some initial confusion (with the current Medium Beam), however in the long run, it should work out fine. See:

Quad Medium Beam Laser I
Quad Modulated Medium Energy Beam I

Focused Medium Beam Laser I
Focused Modulated Medium Energy Beam I

Medium Beam Laser I
Medium Modulated Medium Energy Beam I

Edit: Striked the extraneous "Medium"

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MEDIUM PULSE LASERS
Simple continuity from the beam version.

Focused Medium Pulse Laser I
Focused Modulated Medium Pulse Energy Beam I

Medium Pulse Laser I
Medium Modulated Pulse Energy Beam I

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LARGE BEAM LASERS
There's nothing wrong with the current scheme. It should be preserved. When you omit "Dual", you screw the actual turret art.
"Heavy" inserted for improved clarity. See:

Dual Heavy Beam Laser I
Dual Modulated Heavy Energy Beam I

Mega Beam Laser I
Mega Modulated Heavy Energy Beam I

Tachyon Beam Laser I
Tachyon Modulated Heavy Beam Laser I

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LARGE PULSE LASERS
Simple continuity from the beam version.

Dual Heavy Pulse Laser I
Dual Modulated Heavy Pulse Energy Beam I

Mega Pulse Laser I
Mega Modulated Heavy Pulse Energy Beam I

Please point out on the doll for the court where CCP touched you.

Hi everyone,

Also, please note that as the meta level 1-4 scheme is currently undergoing revision and redesign, the examples below do not take meta changes into account and therefore are not final.

[bittervet]

Was there a topic like this before CCP changed the missiles too? Because I would LOVE to read all the comments of the community about it being a bad idea, not making it more clearer AT ALL. Complaints about ret-conning stuff in EVE that's had perfectly functioning names for over eight years without anyone playing longer then a month complaining about it.

Which CCP would then have totally ignored and turned it into generic garble of discriptions anyway.

I suggest CCP also start renaming all ammo. 'Antimatter Charge S' can become 'Very Short-Range Small Hybrid Charge', and Plutonium 'Short-Range Small Hybrid Charge' and Lead Change M into 'Average-Range Medium Hybrid Charge'. I bet you can do even better with those horribly confusing projectile ammo. I mean 'EMP M'? That's waaaaay to short and non-descript for utter newbies and stupid devs to remember what it is.

Becomes lot more clear doesn't it? Now I want the read to look back into that block of text and quickly pick the types of ammo I just named. Which ones do you find the easiest? Not the names fitting CCP's 'new and improved'.

I'll admit I don't know the exact meta naming for lazorz, but that's because I never really used them. I'm Caldari, I could name every single missile before CCP stamped on them. I do know the meta 4 lasers, they be good sellin', the rest goes into the recycle bin anyway. If I really wanted to know the meta, I WOULD SIMPLY LOOK IT UP. It's not that hard, FFS!

Perhaps if CCP was honest about trying to make the stuff a bit more transparent, instead of getting a boner out of some OCD-driven urge to turn all names into generic bland descriptions, they should just put little chevrons on the icons for meta 0 to meta 4. There I fixed it for you Gnauton! Get some graphics flunky to draw them up and go do something more useful with your time.

[/bittervet]

Actually the hybrid and projectile ammo types tend to be pretty good on the description end.

For hybrids - the range of ammo is determined by the density of the ammo material.
Projectiles - EMP seems pretty straight forward since it does primarily EM damage, Phased Plasma does heat etc. Some of the mid range/long range ammo can be confusing but how often do people use the T1 versions anyway?

Don't forget to change Heavy Missile Lauchers into Medium Missile Lauchers, otherwise your homogenization will fail, and poor noobies will have to think or something.

MEDIUM BEAM LASERS:
Heavy becomes Solid-State Medium

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MEDIUM PULSE LASERS:
Heavy becomes Medium

MY KILLBOARD STATS

Well, when I kill someone I want be able to post that kill on killboard - too much to ask?

May I suggest Strobe over Gatling.

Don't forget to change Heavy Missile Lauchers into Medium Missile Lauchers, otherwise your homogenization will fail, and poor noobies will have to think or something.

Again you're trying to change something that isn't broken.
Current names are ok.

If you change names it will be very difficult for me as an old player to find what i am looking for in lasers.
Mega Pulse Laser II sound very good for me and please don't change it.

I don't see any reason but still you changed the name of invulnerability field to adaptive invulnerability field.

Why ? why adaptive ? just to confuse us with something that's not important.


"Heavy becomes Solid-State Medium"
Now that is very confusing.