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Crystal Stills
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.07.19 16:24:00 -
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I know this has been brought up many times but for many of us when we started playing this game we were not serious about the game and gave our characters poor names. We also bought characters with poor names because that's all that is sold on the character bazaar. I for one have characters I would love to be able to rename. The nature of the game and the time it takes to train characters makes it pointless to start new characters for the sake of a name change. For example I have two toons at 65 and 83 million sp you are talking 3 to 4 years to get that back if I remade them.
I propose a one time name change per account not character for a fee along with conditions.
- Sec status must be at 3 or above.
- Character has no petitions against them.
- Account has never been suspended by ccp.
Once a name change has occurred all people with that character on their watch list will receive a eve mail notification of the character changing their name so you can identify who's character that is on your list.
I also want to bring up a point, people always fight this idea cuz they say criminals can erase what they have done. For a second humor me, this would be a one time deal per "account". Now with the character bazaar you can change out characters and erase you actions every week if you wanted too and as we have seen money is now object for many people as seen by the things people do in the game. If you only change a name their actions will still be known due to the eve mail and by their kill and loss stats that will still be attached.
Weigh that in your mind before you fight this proposal. Character Bazaar = unlimited identity erase Character Rename = Just a name change
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Crystal Stills
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.07.23 16:32:00 -
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The things mentioned above that disapprove of name changes are valid problems but in my eyes easy solves. Things like kill mails for example. I really don't know how they work on a coding level but kill mails are attached to API's no? So if you changed the name wouldn't that be reflected in the kill mail?
I can also relate to identifying people by name, I live out in null sec with my other characters and you do get to know people by their names as potential hot droppers or FC's, etc... At the same time though that is why I proposed a one time name change per account. More than likely if they are well known for their name they won't change it and may choose to change another character on their account. Others have also mentioned a tab with their past name.
To me its a no brainier, their employment will be the same, there kill mails will be the same, you will be able to quickly identify that person again even if there is no tab and such. You learned once rather quickly who they were and I am sure you can again. Besides whats to stop said character to going to the character bazaar and selling that character and buying a new one. I don't hear any tears about that... "cough cough".
Lastly all I ever see in any of theses posts are the deeds you won't be able to see their deeds! give me a break. People ask for API keys for a reason when joining a corp, not character names, API !!! they look to see past communications and forum posts. They look at isk transactions. Even then people don't identify problems. I know someone who stole 6 dreads from a corp he was in then sold them and he still has no problem joining major alliance corps as they never notice the transactions as devious. He tells people he use to build them with an alt. So when people talk about deeds get over it. If you want to cry over a high sec freighter gank well that will be in their kill mails cause that's attached to the API, that deed will still be there.
If there are more visible "deeds" attached to accounts that would be erased by a name change lets talk about them and address them rather than say "the deeds". |
Crystal Stills
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.07.24 04:22:00 -
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samualvimes wrote:I dunno, keeping people names I feel is almost the definition of "actions have consequences" and that means that you have to have the silver tongue to trick people not changing a bit of code in your name.
plus I'll be honest I like the individuality of the stupid names :)
Actions have consequences... Then say character bazaar.
The only consequence in is eve is you do something stupid and you lose isk. Everything else is an illusion that is alive in peoples heads. |
Crystal Stills
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.07.25 05:14:00 -
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Malcanis wrote:The CSM is currently in conversation with CCP on this issue.
I doubt you'll get much traction for the +3.0 sec status requirement though.
First off Malcanis, thank you for making it a topic of the CSM and second I don't much care about the +3.0 sec status. I was just trying to make it less criminal friendly.
Chribba and Gamer4liff also had good input to the topic and what Gamer4liff said I agree with. The thing I can't stress the most though is to make it a one time deal per account to prevent this from being abused. |
Crystal Stills
Compendium Research Company
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Posted - 2013.10.23 02:17:00 -
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Just giving the thread a bump every once in a while as I want to see this happen. |
Crystal Stills
Compendium Research Company
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Posted - 2013.12.05 19:00:00 -
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I wouldn't miss them, I rather see real names |
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