EVE General Discussion

Terrible idea, do not want.

The contacts issue has been explained by CCP before when we've had this discussion and yes, there will be no problem for contacts.

From my recollection, contacts are stored against character ID, not character name. Since the character ID in the database will not change even if a name is changed, contacts will continue unaffected.

Wow, you're really close, but I was thinking: BewborFly

I would support a one time name change as part of a character sale, so long as old names are available as part of the show info screen.

Aside from that, no. If you chose a name you now hate, all I can say is stop sucking.

Nay

I must admit contrary to what I would immediately vote for, I agree with this to some extent (perhaps even bigger extent than what I disagree, sadly but true).

The fact that eve is a game where the social part plays a major role along with your character personality, reputation as you said, and history it would make little to no sense allowing people to change name as it would destroy or kill a very important and most certainly interesting part of this game.

HOWEVER

People buy, transfer and sell characters all the time for one reason or another, and because of this I don't agree with the idea of someone to be obligated to carry on with the old reputation of someone else who used that character before.

And also if you think about it, anyone could pretend to be a different person behind any character at any time and claim he has just bought it.

With that said

I see no reason to stop people from name changing.

Now

Should CCP limit it to 1 name change allowed per year? Yes, they should.

So so so in favour of this.

I don't want to change my name to "escape" my reputation. Not that I really have one, but either way I'm very happy to accept that if they did introduce it it should be clear what your previous name was and contacts standings stay the same etc etc.

My boyfriend just recently re-subbed and also asked me about whether you can change your name yet, because I think it's a shame to devote so many skillpoints and devotion to a character whose name you don't even like. To the people who just say "oh suck it up" well I have, but the 30 seconds I spent typing in random names and coming up with this ****** one shouldn't really mean I get penalised with such an unsexy boring name for the rest of my time in EVE (may it be long). Or at least that's how I feel.

If you don't want the reputation of a character, don't buy the character. I completely do not like the idea of being able to change names. This game is all about consequences for your actions. Changing a player's name goes a long way in letting someone avoid the consequences of their actions.

Surely the thing that's more detrimental to maintaining or losing a reputation is character selling, not name changing?

I can understand Chribbs's point, but name changes have already been a part of the game and we've been learning to deal with it.

• Pilots biomass and other pilots take their name. The old pilot's posts still show up in the new pilot's history, but the new pilot has a new Character ID (as stated).


• Pilots restored from biomass who have had their name taken (like would happen with Marlona since someone has already reserved the name)


• There is a large number of Amarr/Caldari/Gallente/Minmatar Citizens ##### running around in EVE because they were old trial accounts who lost their names or they had offensive names (like AC). What's funny is, AC's posts sometimes shows their old name if you refresh the page enough times so there are still gaps in the system.


• Corporations also get deleted or renamed due to being offensive.

I wouldn't deign to know more about EVE reputation than Chribbs, but my sense is that reputation is a complex interplay of many different things, not just your name.