Default Armor Name Voting

changing this might have a bigger impact on new players and maybe even attract different ones, then renaming items from plain to basic, which are synonyms anyway.

 

admitably, if you just look at the picdurrs you can come to spartacus conclusion ...

 

Blowjobs and sucking dick are also synonyms, and yet they don't always fit in the same spot every time.

But yeah fiddling with the Steam description (or Steam anything because we almost completely refuse to acknowledge ALL the Community features) could also be useful.

@thread which I totally read since my posts are strewn around it: It's not necessarily logical that a researched item is better since there's plenty of games that do sidegrades instead of upgrades. Furthermore, you sometimes join mid-game where armours are already researched and you have a couple different options available - as a newfag, you can't really tell which is best after just a quick glance, and there's already so much new information to process that instead of spending a good few minutes establishing what works best you take whatever happens to suit you and go with it. Of course if you know what's up you'll quite quickly (for you, not for vets who will shout you out of the server) figure out that plain is worse. The point here is to streamline the learning process this tiny, aesthetic bit.

But hey, if you want players to figure out shit on their own, we might as well name all the vehicle items "Armour 1-7" or however many we have, "Engine 1-6", CN/ML/MG 1-X and so forth, because hey, apparently if you don't know everything by heart, you don't give a shit.

 

btw, i just realized while cooking, you wanted to change names because its not descriptive enough. how are absorbant, composite or reactive descriptive for what they do in the game? and even reflective isnt the best description for an armor that actually doesnt reflect anything but just takes less damage at an angle. then comes engines and weapons. how is 3phase implying fast, why doesnt coolant cool when you move, why can you still drive with biodiesel? railgun really tells nothing about its features either, nor does extended range - you can fire std cn across each map so what extended range? its all just names ...

 

Absorbant absorbs damage, it can be interpreted as a damage reduction, but it's only a relative thing since it's stronger than plain - it instead absorbs some damage and reduces your heat with it.

Composite is a mix of all other armors.

Reactive does something funky, like reacting with the shots. Sounds strong.

Reflective....reflects damage. A mirror comes to my mind. After just a few hits you'll figure out it won't bounce shells back at an enemy, and eventually you'll notice you take less damage when shots come in at an angle.

3phase is 3phase, when I think of an electric thing I actually thing of a slow thing, I dunno.

Coolant implies cooling is good, but uhhh, it heats up when I drive? Amagad bug? And then I stop and it cools down fast. Ooooh.

I have no idea how a bio diesel engine would work. Actually I have no idea how any engine works really, so yeah. Maybe an engine junkie would get something from those, but an average player not really. Armors and weapons are a different thing though.

Rail guns don't actually work, but if you know what they should be doing, then you know they hurl cannon shells at enemies. Just a couple shots will tell you all you need about the ROF.

ER implies it fires farther, I don't see the problem.

But wait, there's a fallacy in what I wrote! It's okay to go check out researched stuff but not default stuff in the field? Well, yes it is, because as everyone here knows researched stuff is actually good. If you can pick up on the basics and (later on) quirks of researched items, you'll be effective right then, but default items are outclassed. And refitting at a repair pad is yet another time-consuming and confusing to the newbies thing that could perhaps wait a bit, preferably when bad things aren't happening, or you've had some time to get acquainted with the game.

 

Wasn't reactive suppose to be the counter to missiles way back when? Abs was for cannons and reactive for missiles, I think reactive just had some flat damage reduction.

 

Yes, to rpgs. When it was also made an armor with a lot of hp. I swear it used to only have something like 40-50 hp but had that damage reduction so it was a bit more than whatever else was going on. Well except compo, which was a simple hp armor too.