EVE New Citizens Q&A

Only if you have a capitalisation issue and your char is very young or if someone petitions your name for breaking the Eula and the GM agrees. Other than that not happening, in EVE you live with the choices you make.

EVE actually expect people to think ahead before they do something, this includes picking your character name.

It's not allowed due to that in EVE you have to face consequences of your actions:

Say Pilot named "A" pisses of a lot of people and would be able to change his name to "B" then all the upset people won't know that "B" is actually "A".

So that's why names are fixed, if "A" pisses off many people he has to learn to live with a lot of gankers, mercs, wardecs on him at all times.

It's EVE, you deal with it or you don't. Hope you're the first.

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I believe I saw CCP also explain it this way a few years ago. No new "aliases" to become anonymous. But actually, couldn't the game let you change your name, but 'tag' you forever with the old name? You'd still stay in people's contacts, and a search of your old name would still find you. And could have a list of former names show up like your employment history shows.

Yeah, you're not really going to get a lot of sympathy here on this subject.

It's bad enough - that people can have not merely multiple characters per account but multiple accounts - and thus hide their identity that way - but to allow them to take some character they've put a lot of work into - and change their name as well - no, it's bad enough as it is.



If you think you've got a case - then you could of course simply petition them and see if they said no. However ... they get a lot of petitions ... and ... if they're dealing with yours - that means they're not dealing with someone elses who may have a more serious problem.



Now ... don't feel all alone in screwing up a character name. I've screwed up three of them. Fortunately for me, I realized the mistake I'd made in naming the character shortly after creating it - and hadn't put to much time/money/effort into it - so I just bio massed them - that is - deleted the character.

Now - on bio massing a character ... IF ... you try biomassing a character with a bad security rating - just to get rid of the bad reputation they've accumulated or so you don't have to grind their security status back up - you can be banned for that.

If you just bio mass a new character with no change to their security status though - you won't have a problem.

In addition to bio massing some characters with unfortunate name selections - I've also created a character in one region of space because I wanted to check something out over there - and was to lazy to fly someone over there. I created a character with a name something like "BornToBeBioMassed" - checked out what I wanted - and then deleted that character. Here - it helped that the character was like - really ugly. I mean she looked like a cartoon witch.

My problem with creating characters ... is that I like doing it for some reason ... and have tended to accumulate more than I need ... on occasion ... I've always had a reason to create them ... but sometimes that reason was taken care of by their creation and then ... I didn't really have a job for them after that. *shrug*

Same thing with trial accounts. I've got at least one account now that I created as a trial ... but then really liked the character I'd created ... so I kept the account. I've made use of it but i really hadn't planned on creating another account there .... Of course ... you can also move those characters to other accounts and a lot of people have done that, consolidating accounts. If I hadn't found a use for that account ... that's probably what I would have done. Normally - you don't want to be creating accounts and THEN finding a use for them. It's much better to have a need - and then fill it - rather than create an account and then hope you find a use for it.

*shrug*

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Yeah, and any idea how long such a database would be after jsut couple of months.

Over 300.000 subscriptions to EVE * 3 characters on each account = close to a million characters in total possible.

Say everybody changes their name at least once in 3 months, means each 3 months the database entry grows with a million entries.

Good luck keeping that to work, specially if some people by accident picked a name that someone else used in the past.

Why just not spent about 3 minutes longer on your character creation and actually pick a name you like and agree with, YOU made the mistake of picking a stupid name, so you have to live with it. Why make it that your mistake is CCP's problem. If you can't even pick a normal name or deal with it that you picked something you're not happy with, EVE is not for you. Go back to WoW.

What's wrong with it? I just Googled it out of curiosity and found that it seems to be unique to your EVE character and doesn't exist outside the game, so there are presumably no unfortunate connotations.

Edit: CCP should not sell any kind of name change service. Players should not be able to buy the ability to hide their previous misbehaviour.

I believe there was a time you could actually do that for $20 but not anymore

Yes, this is true, but likewise if that persion vanishes they start a new life. They cant use thier old car or line of credit. They cant live in the same town.

They get a new face and a new life. They get a new car and a new house.

If you want to change your name to start a new life, you have to biomass and start over. If you want your assets, find a holding trust or contract them to yourself. Skills? Well there is a price to everything and that's your bill.

You can buy a new identity, or sell yours. BUT whomever buys your name is stuck with the reputation the previous player built. This is how it should be.

Personally, I think character selling should be nixed. I've a friend that has switched characters 6 times. Really pisses me off when I try to convo him and find some guy I don't know on the other end.