The idea of reusing the "stone" from the name was
clever, but it has some drawbacks.
- It doesn't fit in with NodeCore's generally purely
concatenative naming scheme, where adjectives
are prepended to general names for things.
- It would make translations (or just general
understanding) more difficult for non-native
speakers.
- It's a little weird separating certain words, like
tarstone and cloudstone, because "tar" and
"cloud" appearing on their own now seem to
imply that that material is somehow used in the
composition of the go stones.
Having all of the stones have "go" in their name
also reinforces that these pieces are meant to be
part of a logical set, used together, and are meant
to be used for the game of go (in case somebody
sees one in isolation and doesn't know what it's
from).
It also makes it easier to just search for "go" in
szutil_givemenu and find all the go stones;
searching for "stone" yields too many results.
Aaron Suen