Rename rockets (the ones you can shoot from launcher) to missiles

[Justderpingalong]

Because right now we have rockets (the ones you shoot at enemies) and rockets (the ones that shoot stuff from silos into space). Which is a tad confusing.

[Mango]

Or add rackets (the ones you play tennis with)

[BlueTemplar]

Both great ideas.

Tennis mode vs spitters when ?

[cbtmessageman]

Because right now we have rockets (the ones you shoot at enemies) and rockets (the ones that shoot stuff from silos into space). Which is a tad confusing.

I disagree. One of the differences between rockets and missile, in my mind, is that rockets are unguided weapons while missiles are guided. Part of the 2.0 update removed the Electronic Circuit from the ammo recipe, now making it a "dumb" weapon. A rocket.

[BlueTemplar]

Pretty sure that Factorio's 'rockets' actually lead their targets ?

[Justderpingalong]

Because right now we have rockets (the ones you shoot at enemies) and rockets (the ones that shoot stuff from silos into space). Which is a tad confusing.

I disagree. One of the differences between rockets and missile, in my mind, is that rockets are unguided weapons while missiles are guided. Part of the 2.0 update removed the Electronic Circuit from the ammo recipe, now making it a "dumb" weapon. A rocket.

Frankly even if this is technically correct (and I am pretty sure the rockets we have still have some leading making them smart), I believe my point still stands. Because the naming is confusing, or can be. Making the names different would solve that.

[ManaUser]

They almost never rename items (stack inserter to bulk inserter is the only time I can think of), but I agree, it would be nice if the weapon ammo didn't have the same name.

[BlueTemplar]

Even more when the space-rockets are now such an integral part of the game, and not limited to just winning the game or megabasing !

[jamiechi1]

I Disagree with the OP. They have always been called rockets since even before Sputnik was launched. It has been the common term in English and many other languages for over 70 years.

[BlueTemplar]

But you do, that's not what OP said..?

[Koub]

We do have different words in French for space-rocket (fusée), weapon-rocket (roquette), and missile (missile).

They almost never rename items (stack inserter to bulk inserter is the only time I can think of), but I agree, it would be nice if the weapon ammo didn't have the same name.

There were some renamed items in the past. Basic bullets have been renamed to firearm magazine, iron armor became light armor, battery became personal battery, most science packs were renamed (red, green, blue, purple), I think the beacon started as basic, suggesting a future tier 2, but lost the basic along the way, and same thing with the small pump, which is not that small after all. I'm sure this list is not exhaustive, but proves occasional renaming does happen.

[BraveCaperCat]

A very simple mod could do this... Just a simple locale change and now there are missile weapons instead of rockets.

[Tinyboss]

Has anyone ever been legitimately confused by this? I'm struggling to imagine a case where context would not make it clear.

[BlueTemplar]

I was, at first.

See also :
[2.0.9] Laser Turrets, Gun turrets, and personal laser defense are described as having rocket capacity

Though this change would only barely help with the above confusion, the player would then have to notice that the hand-held launcher (presumably sil very far-off in research yet at that point) is called "missile launcher" instead.

[BraveCaperCat]

Has anyone ever been legitimately confused by this? I'm struggling to imagine a case where context would not make it clear.

See this.

[Tinyboss]

See this.

Oh, I was thinking in-game and totally forgot about scripting, doh! Excellent point and I now understand the need.

I don't think they can remove any names without breaking things, but they could add new ones and deprecate the old ones.