EVE General Discussion

"Bad" because some monoclegeddon-traumatized bittervet said so?
Character ID, killboard record, contact record, bounties etc etc - they all remain the same. Name change log is visible and available to anyone, so you can never erase your character past. Any more reasons to whine left?

Bitterness, but that you've already mentioned it.

You're disregarding alternatives that don't circumvent any of these balancing factors.

…other than the ones mentioned (which was ultimately the reason CCP decided not to implement something as gamebreaking).


Those alternatives would all be “don't provide shortcuts", which rather means that the shortcuts people ask for… well… won't be provided. You can't give people the option of skipping the attribute mechanics witout circumventing the balancing inherent in attributes.

Names have consequences.

Buying characters has consequences.

Logging in has consequences.

Are you sure that's not assuming you try to disguise as one of them?
Doesn't sound fair not to be allowed to quote devs and gm's to get your words right

Read my first post please

I have a great idea.

Make sure you start with a name you can live with. Then, make sure you don't do something monumentally boneheaded causing you to regret the nom de plume you're known by.

You can rename your character and you can't wipe renaming history, so even that small 1% of players who actually care about other player name history (recruit officers) will be satisfied.

The point is that most people don't give a **** about random-dude-in-local reputation or name. Even awoxers with same name stealing everything from different corporations over and over again, and no one care to check their reputation.

Buying a character or having alts is much different than having your name changed, each take considerable amount of time or isk.

Now it's, spoiled reputation and regret it ? want to join null sec again but no one will accept you, you will have to have trained an alt besides you with the same skills to recuperate for your lost reputation and if you didn't you would have to start over again if reputation meant that much to you.

Buy a character? so you dumped 2bill, 3bill, 60bill, how much more

Unless you have a handful of alts each one trained to replace your main or an insane amount of isk to dump into the character bazaar these changes limit you to either create/hop into your alt or spend the isk to "start" over with a hopefully clean sheet.

If character name changes are implemented no matter how deep you dug into you're only one step away from starting over by changing your name, and let's face it putting $$$ is always easier than training up a character or making isk to buy one, this change would not make CCP more money infact they might lose a bit, since with name changes implemented some players would no longer need an alt to do their dirty work because after they've done it they'll just change back there names, and adding a list of their previous names isn't gonna solve anything if your name was "***** Mcslappin" you change it to something decent and a list can still show your previous names people will just look it up and call you "***** Mcslappin" because they can and you effectively solved nothing.