I mean, I can understand this small problem. At a given time, the scientists cant know if there are not much larger aliens which bigger armour.
On the other hand, what other name should they use?
"Alien body Armor"
"Reinforced Alien body Armor"
Other items like the plasma pistol are not so problematic, because a plasma pistol (or at least a pistol) will remain this way always, whereas a "medium" armour should depend on the wearer. An alien that is 20 metres high and has 40 tentacles couldn't wear such a "medium" armour, but it might be able to wield that pistol with... perhaps using 2 or 3 tentacles
the simple fact is that humans to be able to identify the items with out that the game is unplayable
I mean, there are more important things than this, but - I dont think you should generalize here for every item. The weapon of aliens aren't so spectacular. We can assume that humans at least have imagination, and can differ between weapons and armours of aliens (well... at least up to the point where something is both a weapon and armour... but i dont think we have any of that in game)
It appears to me that this small discussion can quickly be stopped with another name but the thread starter didn't suggest any alternative to the current name.
A different name would fix it.
would it be any better if you had Alien Armour Type 2? when you might not find type 1 until after type 2?
I think that sounds even more stupid. Reinforced, or improved, or advanced would be better names. Or how about "alien combat armour"?
But ok, discussing about names is kinda stupid ... can't we go to something more interesting.
Come to think about it, are there plans about organic-type armours? With this i mean armour that can "heal" itself.
It does not necessarily need to be organic, come to think about it, i just thought it cool if some stronger aliens could heal damaged armour... though actually, if i think about it, there are a lot of other things more important anyway..... pfft, armour