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Mallak Azaria
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#21 - 2012-06-09 11:20:40 UTC
Veruca Salt wrote:
Name change service should be avilable in a nine year old game. It's pretty standard feature for 2-3 year old mmo's these days.

Afraid that you'd have a badass change his name and disappear? Well, it happens in real life, with plastic surgery, which we also have access. *shrug* Maybe you'll be able to hunt him down when he got "formerly known as" tab, if you cry hard enough.

Just put a reasonable limits and prices, and we're good to go.


1. EVE is not one of those games.
2. This just in! Comparing a fictional computer game with real life is the correct way to make a valid point.
3. EVE is not one of those games.

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Jame Jarl Retief
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#22 - 2012-06-09 13:44:34 UTC
J'Poll wrote:
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.


Then player "A" goes and sells his character, legally and with CCP support, on character Bazaar. Then player "A" buys a whole new character, with a whole new appearance and name, again legally with CCP support.

And character "A" faces the consequences of his actions how, exactly? Roll

There's no logical reason why you can't change name, appearance or anything else as a paid service. Because it already exists as a bundled paid service.
J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#23 - 2012-06-09 13:55:54 UTC
Iria Ahrens wrote:
Sebastian Hoch wrote:
Oraac Ensor wrote:
[quote=Tau Cabalander]
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.



Lol they already can. Anyone can swap out for a new identity on the character bazaar and it happens all the time today. Did you even read my post?

Seb


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.


That is not 100% true, as any buy or sell of character MUST be announced on the forums. So any decent person in EVE will notice the character has been sold.

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J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#24 - 2012-06-09 14:28:44 UTC
Jame Jarl Retief wrote:
J'Poll wrote:
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.


Then player "A" goes and sells his character, legally and with CCP support, on character Bazaar. Then player "A" buys a whole new character, with a whole new appearance and name, again legally with CCP support.

And character "A" faces the consequences of his actions how, exactly? Roll

There's no logical reason why you can't change name, appearance or anything else as a paid service. Because it already exists as a bundled paid service.


As my post above, Character "A" MUST post his sell on the forum. So any person in EVE can see that it changed hands.

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Iria Ahrens
Space Perverts and Forum Pirates
#25 - 2012-06-10 07:44:20 UTC  |  Edited by: Iria Ahrens
Unfortunately, that is after the fact. As the majority of the player base, or at least a signifant portion doesn't buy/sell characters and so therefore does not view that forum and see the announcements.

Announcements like that should not be buried in a forum, it should be added to the info window of a character, with some kind of alert going to anyone that has that character on their watch list. It is after all, an out-of-game change that affects all subsequent player interaction with that character.

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Mallak Azaria
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#26 - 2012-06-10 12:39:16 UTC
Iria Ahrens wrote:
Unfortunately, that is after the fact. As the majority of the player base, or at least a signifant portion doesn't buy/sell characters and so therefore does not view that forum and see the announcements.

Announcements like that should not be buried in a forum, it should be added to the info window of a character, with some kind of alert going to anyone that has that character on their watch list. It is after all, an out-of-game change that affects all subsequent player interaction with that character.


Wouldn't it be great if they had a system where posts containing important information would stay on the first page at the top? They could call it a Sticky Thread.

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The Leb Auduin
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#27 - 2012-08-14 00:36:15 UTC
You're all assuming that people change their names only when they've done something wrong.

What if I just started playing the game and I don't know the popular naming conventions? I choose a "hacker" handle like 3M0T10N and start playing the game, then realize that nobody else uses this style.
Now I want to change my name and I can't. Even though I've only been playing for one day I'm stuck with the name I chose.
>>Just recreate, you're only losing one day of time.
That's logical but it's not a good business practice. I can think of at least one popular mmo that offers a paid name change service, and I can tell you from experience it doesn't get used only when people "do something bad and want to disappear."
ISD Athechu
ISD STAR
ISD Alliance
#28 - 2012-08-14 00:45:23 UTC
The OP got their answer and this thread is old no need to bump old threads please :)

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