EVE Online Replaces "ISIS" with "Ship Tree"

So! EVE Online!

Whenever you wanted to buy or sell a new ship, it was always a fairly straightforward affair—all you had to do was pull up you Interbus Ship Identification System and browse the plethora of well-designed space-ready craft ready for your attention, and possibly your funds. A lovely, harmless system, but, wait- Interbus Ship Identification System is so clumsy. Isn’t there a better way to address it? How about an acronym, like, say… ISIS?

…oh.

Yes, for as long as EVE Online has been a thing, players have been using that troubling acronym to look through the ships in the game. And no one was really making a big deal of it, but, then, it’s only recently become really awkward. So awkward, in fact, that CCP Games has finally decided to do something about it, and has thus renamed ISIS to the Ship Tree.

Seemed like a pretty straightforward reason, right? Well, maybe not—according to a CCP employee over Reddit, the association with the real-world terror group was a secondary concern, not the forethought.

“Just to clarify, the renaming has nothing to do with ‘ISIS’ being a name used by any real life terrorist group. I questioned Development about this when I saw the proposed name change internally, because if that was the reason then I was set to oppose it. The reasoning for the change is the fact that the name is too obscure for new players, and might confuse them.”

Now, while that is absolutely believable, EVE Online isn’t exactly well known for being friendly to the newbies, and it seems a bit odd to make this one change in the name of accessibility. I would be genuinely surprised if the ISIS connection wasn’t the real reason for the change, but, then… I’ve been wrong before, I can be wrong again. Not for me to know.

Just thought it was fun to point out.