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The updates are a relatively bland 0.XX as the update name. So, what do you think that the names of the updates should be?

For me, after looking at change logs:

0.6: Module Madness
0.7: The Pollutioning
0.8: Robotic Automation
0.9: Oil Update
0.10: The Miscellaneous Update
0.11: The Multiplayer Update
0.12: Circuit Network: The Beginning
0.13: Circuit Network: The Overhaul

I'm pretty sure 0.13 is going to be the space update. Anything else about that update is going to pale in comparison. Also circuit network have been a thing for a while now. Wasn't much to it but it was there. Some if anything I would call 0.12 the "Circuit Network: The Overhaul".

Don't mean to be a buzzkill but I really} hope those don't catch on. Named updates are just such an inconvenience. When I'm talking about updates I want to know when it happened, if it's recent or old, if I already have it, if it's stable or not etc. All those things I can tell from the version number, but none of them from some weird wannabe creative names.

Can't there be version number and name ? Not that I care either way. Just saying.

If the numbers persist that's fine. What bothers me is if you're talking to people (or rather, reading on the interwebs) and they mention the so-and-so update instead of version 0.X, I usually have no clue what they're talking about.
A lot of Linux distributions do this, e.g. Ubuntu. People talking about “precise” and “oneiric” and I have no clue which year that was released and if it's still supported. Tell me version 12.04 and I know exactly what's happening. (And that's even knowing that Ubuntu's names are at least alphabetical). Same thing for games, like TF2, where even the wiki only talks about the whatever-update without giving any hint about how long ago that happened.

That's why I said I don't want the names to catch on. I don't mind them existing but if they become the dominant way of referring to individual updates you'll just need another way to translate those into something meaningful.
Sorry if that sounds overly pessimistic. It's just something that's always bothered me.

Gandalf wrote:If the numbers persist that's fine. What bothers me is if you're talking to people (or rather, reading on the interwebs) and they mention the so-and-so update instead of version 0.X, I usually have no clue what they're talking about.
A lot of Linux distributions do this, e.g. Ubuntu. People talking about “precise” and “oneiric” and I have no clue which year that was released and if it's still supported. Tell me version 12.04 and I know exactly what's happening. (And that's even knowing that Ubuntu's names are at least alphabetical). Same thing for games, like TF2, where even the wiki only talks about the whatever-update without giving any hint about how long ago that happened.

That's why I said I don't want the names to catch on. I don't mind them existing but if they become the dominant way of referring to individual updates you'll just need another way to translate those into something meaningful.
Sorry if that sounds overly pessimistic. It's just something that's always bothered me.

So I guess you aren't fond of the Google Android naming scheme crap either?