Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I have two topics I'd like to discuss:

1. POS Access - I understand the reasoning behind POS access levels and the ability of a POS owner/manager to control the pilots who come in and out, but it would be VERY handy if a POS was able to allow fleet members of a POS-friendly pilot into its forcefield. For example tonight I'm running a mining fleet with one of my alts providing the boosts. A second alt of mine whom I just purchased has yet to be accepted into the corporation, but the pilot is in my fleet acting as a squad commander, but they're unable to access the POS that I have the booster sitting in.

It would be very nice if there was a way for the POS to "inherit" the standing of fleet members. It kind of does 2 thing:

• It makes it very efficient for fleets in regions where not everyone is necessarily blue, allowing them to provide a haven for the fleet members during ops.
• It also makes it so that the fleet boss needs to be very diligent in who they allow into their fleets. There would be potential for a "red" to be brought into the fleet if they don't properly manage their fleet settings, squad commanders, etc. I know this could cause a bit of conflict, but I think it would make for more responsible fleets.

2. Pilot Renaming - Since the release of the skill extractors/injectors, we're essentially making it viable for someone to spend their ISK/Real World Money to purchase skillpoints and improve their pilots. While this is fine and all for some people, I think it should also be a pathway for the availability to pilot renaming. As well, we already allow for the resculpting of pilots using AUR, so why not names?

It could be set up in a similar way, you can either pay for the renaming card via AUR, or via an ingame "Citizen Renaming Certificate" wherein you pay ISK for the certificate and the right to rename your pilot. This is a VERY desired game feature, and I'm surprised it has not happened yet. Though perhaps there are difficulties I'm not seeing.




Just food for thought :)

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So folks need to take extra steps to figure out that you're character is a douchebag? Nah.

If you want to hide your douchebaggery - don't get caught. The onus is on you to be good at being a douche, not on the rest of eve to be good at figuring it out.

TL/DR If you're bad at being bad and get a bad rep - that's on you.

The only way I would ever get on board with any character name change is if there was a name history tab on your character sheet. From there standings would have to be based off a unique character ID the server would generate, so you couldn't simply dip out on someones watchlist because you changed your name.

I'm not sure this is as important to CCP as it was in the past.

First of: No, the E is not missing. I chose this name on purpose and consciously (mostly to make all those English speaking people twist their tongues when they try to pronounce my name forcibly leaving out the E.).

Secondly, you can buy new ships, implants, but it costs ISK -- always, and you have to earn that ISK; you can buy PLEX with RL cash and sell it ingame to get more ISK without running ingame activities -- but you need to cover your error with more RL cash. You can drain unwanted SP, but only via injecting even more RL cash into the game. There's always consequences to your actions. You can mitigate one consequence but only with (a lot of) effort by creating another consequence (less RL cash for other things, less time to play other games/do other things outside EVE, less time to do other things in EVE, etc,).

A name history is useless. Everyone can just inject more cash into the game and create a dozens of entries long list, making the effort to find out who you originally were or who you were along the path (maybe the 5th out of 43 name entries was the awoxer that everyone is warning other players about, but have fun sifting through 43 name entries.)
If EVE is about style, then you better make sure that your name has some style. I gave all my characters stylish, timeless names. What you want is a compensation for your (impersonal your) incapability to find such a name and instead want to be able to cover up your inadequacies. That kind of argument is nonsense, to use your words.

Dear DF,

My closet has more than two pairs of jeans and 500 black T-Shirts.

And yes, biomassing is the answer to everything....

--Gadget

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Rivr,

Someone says "timeless" style, and I hear "out of date and anachronistic."

This game is over a decade old and still going strong. People's interests change over time, and trends come and go. That's the way of the First World. There's nothing wrong with this.

Yes, you might have that fringe potential Awoxer attempting mischief, but a decent corp/alliance is already investigating new recruits, right? One more piece of information to check on the API isn't a big deal since most that care about spies already ask for a full API in the first place.

And no, I don't think it'll be a heavy burden for the fact checkers. It's one extra step looking for something they're already looking for. Personally, if I were doing an investigation and I ran across someone with 50 name changes, that would send up a flag.

Never said that there wouldn't be consequences of changing one's name.

I really don't think that a change of name is all that big of a negative deal. If there were some sort of technological aspect that would hinder this, then I might understand, but there are enough Empire Citizen 123456789's out there to show that a name change can be done at some unknown cost. If a player is willing to pay for the luxury, then at the very least, this'll offset the costs of changing the name.


--Gadget ... still trying to pronounce that damned "e".

Everything should come with a cost...including be a **** in game.

All this debate about name changes and why they are good or bad, so I am going to go another direction with my comments and Hopelesshobo actually leads into this when he posted this bit.

Everyone that is for this name change idea mentions things in game that you can change as reasons why we should be able to change our characters name. While I see the point they are making my counter argument is simple and based on the realities of computer data storage. All of the things in game that we can change take no or very little additional data storage space when we change them. Allowing for name changes while maintaining the list of previous names could add significantly to the data storage requirements especially when multiplied across the tens of thousands of characters in the game.

Setting side the data storage requirements and their costs in real cash and potential for producing lag do we really want CCP to dedicate dev time to reworking the data bases and re-coding the entire game to allow for this when there are so many other things waiting to be done not to mention those that are still in progress?