EVE General Discussion

No because as stated you have a reputation even if you dont care about it with other players. Others will know you for something.

The OP has a point - CCP are not being reasonable. If one assumes that a character is an extension of the player and they will not rename because that allows the character to take on a new 'form', then I fail to see how selling a character to another player is any different.

They should just make it suitably expensive, to ensure only the truly motivated apply. Say, £50 or so, and no use of Plex to deter in-game Gypsies who CBA trying to succeed in life. CCP really ought to have a think to themselves, they are missing so many revenue generating possibilities it's silly; Paid for Attribute Re-Maps, paid for Skill Re-Maps etc.

Strictly speaking, arriving at a consensus doesn't mean you've arrived at the truth.

Yeah, that policy still is complete and utter bullcrap, that even some well respected players (not to mention devs) seem to still childishly believe.

There are no consequences as long as the alt system is in place and even endorsed by CCP. You can gain reputation, but you can dump that reputation to someone else through character bazaar, presumably completely unaware of said reputation, whether it's good or bad. You can dodge your supposed rep and it is ridiculously easy. If you support the prevalence of alts, you cannot, realistically be against name changes because it is nearly the same damn thing.

and i'm pretty sure doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result each time is the definition of insanity.

Not only childish but stupidly believe.

"reputation" is a meaningless joke. People can change their behaviour to suit any circumstance. I have been in chat or on the forums with 2 alts both taking different stances in the same argument. You got someone who is right on your side, and raging at you at the same time. Not understanding that is's the same PERSON behind the keyboard for both of them. People don't want to grasp the difference between a character and a person...

So the most stupid aspect of this argument is believing the reputation of a fake, created character is carried over to the new owner a real person.

To add to the meta game, I believe CCP has said that it causes issues database wise.

CCPs database is shoddy at best of times, if name changes were a thing, there would be no end to the problems.

The primary issue is to make sure that people can't escape consequences through simple name changes. Yes alts. Yes character trades. But this is still meaningful, and it should still be possible for eg: recruiters to at least do the most basic of security checks.

However, let's suppose we have a hypothetical "alias" system where my beloved main character Awoxy McCorp-Thief wants to change his name to Probity McReliable, but a search for "Awoxy McCorp-Thief" still brings up Probity, and also that there's a small but visible flag on the character sheet and the portrait indicating that the character has 1 or more aliases, and that those aliases are listed in the Character description.

With this system, we can counter the objections to a "name change for PLEX" system while allowing people who named their dude xXx420W33dM@sat3ar420xXx 5 years ago and now that they're no longer 14 and no longer think such names are amusing, and want a chance to try calling themselves something less flamboyantly awful.

There is also one extremely strong argument in favour of allowing name changes that I very rarely see discussed, and that is how transsexual players or players who have recently accepted a change in their sexuality identify with their characters. With trans players, I am told (and believe) that this is very powerful issue for them.

So charage a PLEX for the first change, 2 PLEX for the second, etc. Frivolously renaming a character will start out expensive and get very expensive very quickly.

Sell your character and buy one with a non-******** name. Its quite simple actually.