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Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan 1,408
Tom Gerard Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan Likes received: 1,408	#1 - 2012-07-15 18:36:47 UTC There are a number of high demand names that are currently tied up by inactive accounts. I had a perfect Harrison Ford in the creator, the closest I could get to Han Solo was Hhan Solo. I think everyone can agree that name bites. However Hän Solo would have been epic. If our characters can have piercings, why can't our names? Now with 100% less Troll.

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Noriko Mai Likes received: 2,173	#2 - 2012-07-15 18:39:21 UTC \| Edited by: Noriko Mai 1 WTF? NEVER!!!!!1111 I don't even know how to type or spell half of them. "Meh.." - Albert Einstein

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Tesal Likes received: 452	#3 - 2012-07-15 18:39:51 UTC 3 Imagine trying to autolink those characters. Many ppl wouldn't be able to.

FaDoyToy 3,263
Chainsaw Plankton FaDoyToy Likes received: 3,263	#4 - 2012-07-15 18:50:52 UTC 1 dibs on Töm Gerard! @ChainsawPlankto on twitter

Private Pineapple

Brutor Tribe

Minmatar Republic

Likes received: 464

#5 - 2012-07-15 18:54:34 UTC

Tesal wrote:

Imagine trying to autolink those characters. Many ppl wouldn't be able to.

This is the issue here. In WoW it was very problematic to even reach out to anyone who had a single special character in their name. However, since CCP already has a search system why don't they count a special character as the corresponding normal character in the alphabet in the search results? For example, Han Solo and Hän Solo would show up next to each other on an "results as exact string" search for "Han Solo".

Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic 286
Lucy Ferrr Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic Likes received: 286	#6 - 2012-07-15 18:58:59 UTC 8 Terrible terrible idea. This just opens the door to all sorts of impersonation scams, which are against the EULA. I do think they should go through and wipe any trial account that wasn't activated after say 6 months or so. I can't even begin to imagine how many good names are taken up by a trial account that is never going to be active again.

Dreamland Augmented Consortium 361
Ursula Thrace Dreamland Augmented Consortium Likes received: 361	#7 - 2012-07-15 19:01:00 UTC 3 Tom Gerard wrote: There are a number of high demand names that are currently tied up by inactive accounts. no there aren't. you're just not creative enough to come up with one. including special characters and symbols in names is just not a good idea. in fact, it's doing this. eve online original intro

Chainsaw Plankton

FaDoyToy

Likes received: 3,263

#8 - 2012-07-15 19:05:42 UTC

Lucy Ferrr wrote:

Terrible terrible idea. This just opens the door to all sorts of impersonation scams, which are against the EULA.

I do think they should go through and wipe any trial account that wasn't activated after say 6 months or so. I can't even begin to imagine how many good names are taken up by a trial account that is never going to be active again.

if it is a name that some dope who only lasted 2 weeks chose, it probably wasn't a very good name....

@ChainsawPlankto on twitter

Rhatar Khurin

Doomheim

Likes received: 766

#9 - 2012-07-15 19:07:52 UTC

Chainsaw Plankton wrote:

Lucy Ferrr wrote:

if it is a name that some dope who only lasted 2 weeks chose, it probably wasn't a very good name....

There's a really old inactive player in a noob corp called "God"

Cruor Angelicus 4,316
Xercodo Cruor Angelicus Likes received: 4,316	#10 - 2012-07-15 20:07:47 UTC IBZ (In before Zalgo) The Drake is a Lie

Rusty Anchor 308
Vicky Somers Rusty Anchor Likes received: 308	#11 - 2012-07-15 20:21:51 UTC 1 Dibs on p̷͚͖̦̹̲̫̽̽̈̉͊͘e̼̻͓͒̃̎́n̡̡̮̼̔͐ͫ̀ͯ̿͝i͙ͪs̴̛̘̞ͧ.

Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation 731
Valerie Tessel Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation Likes received: 731	#12 - 2012-07-15 21:04:45 UTC 2 Vicky Somers wrote: Dibs on p̷͚͖̦̹̲̫̽̽̈̉͊͘e̼̻͓͒̃̎́n̡̡̮̼̔͐ͫ̀ͯ̿͝i͙ͪs̴̛̘̞ͧ. You may want to have that examined by a doctor... there's stuff all over it. Tactical destroyers... I'll take a dozen Gallente, please.

The Swollen Horse Society 55
Swordfingers The Swollen Horse Society Likes received: 55	#13 - 2012-07-15 21:47:55 UTC 1 Valerie Tessel wrote: Vicky Somers wrote: Dibs on p̷͚͖̦̹̲̫̽̽̈̉͊͘e̼̻͓͒̃̎́n̡̡̮̼̔͐ͫ̀ͯ̿͝i͙ͪs̴̛̘̞ͧ. You may want to have that examined by a doctor... there's stuff all over it. It's just ribbed for her pleasure.

Akirei Scytale

Okami Syndicate

Likes received: 3,673

#14 - 2012-07-15 21:49:50 UTC

Private Pineapple wrote:

Tesal wrote:

Imagine trying to autolink those characters. Many ppl wouldn't be able to.

Go try and code that. It'll be fun, I promise.

Freerange Fedo Milks and Yogurts 28
Dairy Product Freerange Fedo Milks and Yogurts Likes received: 28	#15 - 2012-07-15 21:57:53 UTC 2 I think special characters are a bad thing for MMO names, mostly for this reason: Ursula Thrace wrote: you're just not creative enough to come up with one. Letting people create the thousands of variations on "Han Solo" would be seriously annoying. There are great names still available, you just have to look for them.

Y'nit Gidrine

Center for Advanced Studies

Gallente Federation

Likes received: 17

#16 - 2012-07-15 22:00:23 UTC | Edited by: Y'nit Gidrine

Private Pineapple wrote:

Tesal wrote:

Imagine trying to autolink those characters. Many ppl wouldn't be able to.

Unicode has 1,112,064 different characters. Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I do not think it is possible to programmatically match each latin letter with their associated accented characters. This means, someone would have to go through this list manually and look for all of the a's, b's, c's, d's, e's, etc...

That sounds like a lot of work that I wouldn't want to pay CCP for.

Anyways, we aren't allowed to use copyrighted/trademarked names.

Valerie Tessel

Center for Advanced Studies

Gallente Federation

Likes received: 731

#17 - 2012-07-15 22:12:03 UTC

Akirei Scytale wrote:

Private Pineapple wrote:

Tesal wrote:

Imagine trying to autolink those characters. Many ppl wouldn't be able to.

Go try and code that. It'll be fun, I promise.

A decent text indexer can do a distance search that turns up visually "near" matches. Not all that difficult. Now configuring the indexer to run at Eve-scale... That's another matter.

Tactical destroyers... I'll take a dozen Gallente, please.

Doomheim 51
Fatbottom Girl Doomheim Likes received: 51	#18 - 2012-07-15 23:17:05 UTC 1 Tom Gerard wrote: There are a number of high demand names that are currently tied up by inactive accounts. I had a perfect Harrison Ford in the creator, the closest I could get to Han Solo was Hhan Solo. I think everyone can agree that name bites. However Hän Solo would have been epic. If our characters can have piercings, why can't our names? Get out

Monkey Steals The Peach 864
Grumpymunky Monkey Steals The Peach Likes received: 864	#19 - 2012-07-15 23:26:04 UTC 1 Think of all the Chrǐbba scams. Post with your monkey. Thread locked due to lack of pants.

Dead's Prostitutes The Initiative. 953
Xearal Dead's Prostitutes The Initiative. Likes received: 953	#20 - 2012-07-16 00:41:08 UTC Grumpymunky wrote: Think of all the Chrǐbba scams. Gah.. beat me to it!! Does railgun ammunition come in Hollow Point?