[Discussion] Adding "basic" / "simple" before some items

[Dev-iL]

Hi all,

Let me start by saying that this post is partly a translation discussion and partly a suggestions for renaming some things in the game.

This is an idea that was suggested in the Russian translation discussion of "Electronic circuit". Here's my translation into English:

...original strings which refer to items having several levels, should include "basic"/"simple" in their name instead of "no modifier" (e.g. "basic transport belt" as opposed to just "transport belt")... This would also imply that there are other levels to it.

I would like to add to this that I generally think that numbers in names are not a good thing, and is probably just some placeholder the developers didn't get around to fixing.. The only place I think I saw numbers in names of entities\technologies was in Civ when exhausting the tech tree and all you get are "future tech 15" etc.

Consider electric poles - we have small/medium/big and not [nothing]/big/giant.
Consider beacons - there is currently only one type, but it's "basic" nonetheless.

Examples I could think of where something like this applies:

• Transport belts/spitters/underground.
• Circuits (e.g. green would be "basic circuit", red will remain "advanced circuit", blue would also be some sort of a "circuit" instead of "processing unit")
• Assembly machines, instead of "1","2","3"...
• Speed modules (same terminology as in circuits)
• Technology names for the electronics group (currently: "electronics", "advanced electronics", "advanced electronics 2")

Thoughts?

[Lishget]

I agree. In my mod i have changed it, where i can. So my Assembler have the Names:

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assembling-machine-1=Montagemaschine
assembling-machine-2=Fabrikator
assembling-machine-3=Konstruktor

I have made it similar by other items. By the technologies i couldn't change this, because the entry for a tech only one time exist.