The renaming of weapons

[Jonboy]

@Murderer

iirc a CM said at some point it was done to keep them aligned with the internal names in the code.

Firstly - I don’t doubt you. I seem to remember something similar also.

That said, the change never really made sense, did it? The internal names are all of the format “abc_px_my” - which makes the new naming convention illogical. Renaming the columnus to a vraks for instance doesn’t align with any of the coded names. I don’t get it, anyway!

Why were weapons renamed, exactly?

If it’s a standard table design, then each weapon will have a series of IDs that are really used, and then just a name column which is accessed via a lookup to show to the user. If you’ve ever used the chrome shop plugin, then you often see the new weapons (where the author hasn’t matched a name yet), as the non-aliased names above, e.g. lasgun_p3_m3. But thereafter, you can match the name to whatever text string you like - e.g. “display_name”. The web plug in still has the old names for exam…