Why would CCP get rid of the old flavorful names like “dense”, “fiery” and “golden” from asteroid descriptions?!
Golden Omber, Platinoid Omber, Stable Veldspar, Silvery Omber, Dense Veldspar, Magma Mercoxit, Concentrated Veldspar, Vitreous Mercoxit…
EVE has so many colorful descriptions of ores!
And now it’s all going to be “II-Grade” or “III-Grade”?!
Great way to reduce immersion and reduce this universe to raw numbers and tiered resources like some cheap knockoff game.
Just put the tier in the info tab of the asteroids if you have to make things easier for first-time newbies. Not as name of the rock that everyone will see forever while mining. Whenever I go on a hike and find nice rocks I also don’t say “wow this is a nice ‘Grade II’ sandstone!”. Instead I see if it’s fine-grained or discolored.
Not only do these new names reduce the sense of immersion, it also removes the sense of wonder and knowledge of experienced miners. Of half these colourful descriptions that I haven’t spend time mining yet I have no idea which one is best. And I think that’s great!
Basically they’re dumbing down the game even more for lazy instant gratification players…
Now players only have to target #3 instead of opening up the info box on each different type to see what percentage amount of mineral increase it contains..
But the overview being cluttered is the least concern. Inventories also get cluttered and liquidity for ore, specifically buy orders would also seem to be worse when there’s several variants of the same ore. Does anyone care?
Successful product/company/show exists, attracts new employees who “never read the source material” and have a disdain for their intended audience. They think they know better and have a level of main character syndrome where they can’t build on what already exists, instead break it all down forcing their views onto it.
I agree, it would be a change for the worse if they went through with it. ‘Golden Omber’ is a more natural name, than ‘Omber III’ or whatever they wanna call it now. Whoever came up with this idea has been living with their nose stuck inside a computer for too long and needs to get out and take a look at real life for a change.
Human beings have historically come up with names, not numbers, to differentiate between different things. ‘Chameleon’ was called ‘lion of the earth’, not ‘animal number 115’.
You can argue that is just as unoriginal. The intention with the change is to improve the user experience and id say it has. Flavorful adjectives gets old fast anyway.
