Should gentags be created for the EGO gear of Project Moon's Abnormalities?

Currently we have the E.G.O for when the armor/weapon of an abnormality is present, and their respective chartag (Der Freischuetz, for example) if the abnormality themselves is present, though I'm not sure if this is consistent. What is relatively common for artists to do is draw an Employee using an abnormality's E.G.O, but there doesn't seem to be a way to search for specifically this e.g. post #6745697 without including images of its inspiration. (Der_freischuetz_(lobotomy_corporation) e.g.o_(project_moon) looks like the workaround, but I don't know about tagging the abnormality when they aren't actually present.

If they should be created, what should they be called out of either 1. abnormality_(e.g.o)_(project_moon) or 2. [e.g.o name]*_(e.g.o)_(project_moon)? I suppose the E.G.O qualifier can be dropped in the second case out of redundancy.

*For the non-knowers, each E.G.O has its own name.

What a lucky coincidence, I was just pondering the possibility of specific E.G.O tags myself tonight as I was uploading. Might as well throw in my own two cents.

Personally, I think it would be handy to have tags for those in full E.G.O cases. It would be kinda like with the many many cases of official alternate costumes having their own tags (except gen instead of char). However, I doubt they will be much help in the cases where the E.G.O is completely mishmashed (post #6745697, as our example here, would be hypothetically tagged with the ones for Der Freischuetz and Beauty and the Beast, which while a minor example, could easily result in clogged up searches for the more complex cases). If we were to have such tags, there would probably need to set parameters or at least a couple ground rules for tagging with these kinds of mismatched cases so that searches don't get clogged up. That way, people searching for specific sets don't have to worry as much about these cases.

As for the naming...The nerdy side of me wants to go with Option 2, but if we're talking about searchability for the average user not caught up on all their names, then Option 1 would be the better choice.

Maiden_in_Orange said:

However, I doubt they will be much help in the cases where the E.G.O is completely mishmashed (post #6745697, as our example here, would be hypothetically tagged with the ones for Der Freischuetz and Beauty and the Beast, which while a minor example, could easily result in clogged up searches for the more complex cases).

Lmao, this makes me think of what would happen if an artist drew their endgame nugget with 16 E.G.O gifts. Good point. I think making individual tags for gifts could rectify this, but someone might also plan an assassination at the idea of a hypothetical 186 new gentags...

BobTheBuilder_v1 said:

Lmao, this makes me think of what would happen if an artist drew their endgame nugget with 16 E.G.O gifts. Good point. I think making individual tags for gifts could rectify this, but someone might also plan an assassination at the idea of a hypothetical 186 new gentags...

Lol. Yeah, it would definitely be the gifts that would need the most management if we were to go ahead and create E.G.O tags. I agree that tags for individual gifts might solve this issue, but well...186 new gentags is a lot. It could be avoided by just ignoring the gifts entirely and focusing more in on the E.G.O gear and weapons as the tag focus (especially since gifts are usually two tags at most and I imagine most people searching for E.G.O gear would be focused on the gear itself and not the gifts), but I'm not sure how appealing that idea is. It certainly isn't a very appealing idea to me, at least.

My own thoughts on this:

+1 on making separate gentags for egos. I originally made e.g.o_(project_moon) when the tag was still small, but I definitely agree on making it more granular.
Because tags would probably be pretty small, I wouldn't mind gifts being tagged alongside the "main" equipment.
For the naming, I want to say ego names over abno names (eg. 4th match flame), and then alias the abno name to them (alias scorched_girl_(e.g.o)_(project_moon) -> 4th_match_flame_(project_moon))
That said, it would require at least someone taking care of the BURs. (On the other hand, wikis are going to be made anyways, unless you don't want the tags to imply e.g.o_(project_moon)).

On a side note, because some limbus identities are EGOs, I assume they're going to be tagged too. And because of that, should identities also get their own tags?
(I think this deserves it's own discussion, I mentioned it because I thought it should be considered, but for now let's focus on E.G.Os)

Login_to_view said:

For the naming, I want to say ego names over abno names (eg. 4th match flame), and then alias the abno name to them (alias scorched_girl_(e.g.o)_(project_moon) -> 4th_match_flame_(project_moon))
That said, it would require at least someone taking care of the BURs.

Sounds good.

On a side note, because some limbus identities are EGOs, I assume they're going to be tagged too. And because of that, should identities also get their own tags?
(I think this deserves it's own discussion, I mentioned it because I thought it should be considered, but for now let's focus on E.G.Os)

I will refrain from messing with Limbus because I don't really play or mind the game, so if someone wants to include that they can attach it to the topic I end up making for the Ayinverse games.

Login_to_view said:

My own thoughts on this:

+1 on making separate gentags for egos. I originally made e.g.o_(project_moon) when the tag was still small, but I definitely agree on making it more granular.
Because tags would probably be pretty small, I wouldn't mind gifts being tagged alongside the "main" equipment.
For the naming, I want to say ego names over abno names (eg. 4th match flame), and then alias the abno name to them (alias scorched_girl_(e.g.o)_(project_moon) -> 4th_match_flame_(project_moon))
That said, it would require at least someone taking care of the BURs. (On the other hand, wikis are going to be made anyways, unless you don't want the tags to imply e.g.o_(project_moon)).

On a side note, because some limbus identities are EGOs, I assume they're going to be tagged too. And because of that, should identities also get their own tags?
(I think this deserves it's own discussion, I mentioned it because I thought it should be considered, but for now let's focus on E.G.Os)

+1 to the thread in general
And yeah, limbus identities should get their own tag since their egos (save for Yi-Sang's yellow flower ego) are borrowed from fallen lobcorp branches anyways

(I MISREAD SORRY I THOUGHT IT ASKED WHETHER LIMBUS EGO IDS NEEDED THEIR OWN TAG the IDs themselves like Tingting/N corp are a whole other can of worms)

What worries me the most is whether we'll need distinctions among the LC/Ruina egos of the same name.. or Limbus' up to 3 different versions of the same ego which share a name

Shibi said:
What worries me the most is whether we'll need distinctions among the LC/Ruina egos of the same name.. or Limbus' up to 3 different versions of the same ego which share a name

Just like the sephirah/librarians, I think it can be simple tag + copyright/character search. So like, 4th_match_flame + library_of_ruina would only bring LoR's depiction of it, same thing with, say, sunshower + outis.

the IDs themselves like Tingting/N corp are a whole other can of worms

My suggestion to that would be handling it like my E.G.O suggestion. Make a general group tag (n_corp_(identity)_(limbus_company)?)
There will be false positives (eg. an n corp sinclair search would bring quite a few artworks featuring lcb sinclair and n corp faust), but I think they would be small enough to not hurt searchability too much.