Thread:Admiral Mikado/@comment-25683568-20150630080920/@comment-24980562-20150702115640

Well, I can see where Dechi is coming from. Personally I don't see the point of leaving numbers untranslated. Sure, most people here are already used to "Kai Ni", but you could say the same about the other translations and/or conventions we've used so far. Stuff that's gonna get changed nonetheless. "Kai" itself is a term that should stay as is since at this point it pretty much is a loanword, not to mention that the term "mk.II" is already used by Abyssal ship equipment. And then there's understanding of the reader. Sure, people who've been playing the game long enough might already know that "Ni/San/Yon=2/3/4", but that doesn't mean everyone does, which is why I found the name change of Type 22 Surface Radar Kai 4 to "Kai Yon" so baffling. It added nothing for the understanding of the reader and might as well have substracted from it since not everyone knows that "Yon=4".

So yeah, I prefer "Kai 2/3/4" or - with a hyphen - "Kai-2/3/4" for everything. If this means that all those ship modules have to be editted, well, you don't have to do that alone. I kinda figured out the basics of Lua modules trying to fix the resource icons of the ship remodelling cost table after all...