Player Features and Ideas Discussion

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Have been thinking of this myself as most other online games offers the service (not saying just because others offers it, why not just duplicate).

I would not make use of the service myself as I usually think about the names for my toons.

Unless it somehow would interfere with bounties, nullifying it or impacts in any other way, I cannot see why not.

Could make it part of the plex / aur programme even ?

Added the naming history point.

I agree to the identity, but identities can change while the player and his/her character grows and so. And since links in EVE wouldnt become invalid through the change and names would be updated in histories, lists ect. I dont see what why corp thiefes and spies would have it easier to do their thing. Besides, if you are dumb enough to let someone scam you, you deserve it and the name changing feature wouldnt change a bit on that fact. Besides, you could change your name just once per year, so there is enough time to get used to it. The history was a good point, but the rest is nonsense to me.




Not supposed to be. Criminals shall not rename themselfes, thats the only reason for the sec status requirement.

CCP has already said, many times, that they have no intention of allowing people to rename their characters -- there's just too much potential for 'character recycling' via the Bazaar, and our block lists would become useless.

I for one would welcome an opportunity to change my character name, it has been 8 years since i made this character and i havent gone by Solid Rock in most other setings for the past 6 of those. It is also worth noting that i was only 15 years old at the time, and as i have become older and more mature i worry that the rather silly name may prevent me from being taken seriously. Yet i do no want to loose 8 years worth of game progress for the sake of a name either

There a plenty of ways to safeguard a system like this against abuse, making it a paid service akin to the old portrait transfers will discourage most casual abuse and adding, as was already sugested by the OP, a 12 month cooldown will make it rather useless as a means of getting away with all but the longest cons. At any rate, i believe that the notion that you could disapear completely simply by virtue of a changed name is shaky at best. If you are worth hunting down someone will enivitably put two and two together or your friends will rat you out at the promise of riches or the threat of a 1400 mm canon up their auxiliary exaust port. The potential for abuse is limited at best if implemented properly, i would even say that the security status requirement is a bit much

As for block lists, i am certain the game already tracks characters by ID codes rather than names within the games internal logic. It is not a huge stretch to imagine that block's could be made to stick regardless of names.

As OP wrote each account have an ID which authenticates your account and password when logging in. That ID also contains all 3 chars you have on said ID. Changing name is nothing more than renaming a file. So there is nothing to be afraid of. The bazaar is worse as I see it since you just biomass one of your own and buy new one.

Other games have it and it works well. Just a question to do it right.

I can ride a bycicle in real life, does not been it would be a benefit or have any place in Eve.

Names are your reputation.... reputation is everything in Eve.

No to namechanges.

Reputation is nothing more than smoke and mirrors.... Your reputation can change so quickly so easily, it wont matter. Know those guys who killed their own corp members for profit in Gallente space? No? Forgotten in less than 3 months! I just remember one because I have him/her in my contact list with a note in his/her profile that I will kill him/her. Otherwise I would had forgot him/her a long time ago. So much for reputation. Exceptions of this are ppl like chribba or alliances like Rooks and Kings. But that is really rare. So giving a name some reputation will only last until you forget about it - I bet its even less than a month, most ppl forget even in 2 weeks or less. Only killmales and your corp history show you quite some story and there is the story you can tell with your character, but therefore a name is just smoke and mirrors as well.

Just a side note: CCP mentioned in their 2h+ presentation of the fanfest that they plan to advance the customization of your avatar, if Im not mistaken. This idea is basicly one step in that direction + it provides some ISK sink and since it is limited to those with a good sec status for example, suicide ganker maybe will never be able to change. While thinking about the last point, is it that why you are so obsessed about it? Just wondering.

It wont happen, because a database works with IDs and if you change your name you dont change your ID so basicly links, contact lists, KMs ect. would be untouched by the change of that persons name and so personal notices, bounty ect. wouldnt be affected too. And since you can change only ONCE PER YEAR, you have enough time to track someone down.




Do they actually play EVE? Im not sure, but I think it is quite easy to escape someones wrath since EVE is a huge universe and if you arent a dumbass you will survive in it regardless who is hunting you down. At least as a single person. If you mess up in Amarr space, just move to Gallente space and start anew.




It is not what I wanted to do with this idea. It is more like an additional way of personalisation since you grow with your character and like Solid Rock you become more mature and your name sounds too childish and you dont want to throw away years of progress - which would eradicate a part of EVEs history in fact. As for me, I am wandet to change my name a little bit to bring it on a level with my non-EVE-project, but I put so much work into this character, I cannot allow myself to throw that away. Even if Im bad in PVP, I gathered alot of experiences in that time and I want to keep that history up - I might just rename once in my whole career on this toon. Maybe Im an Autist, but thats a different story.

And this is ofcourse why witness protection programs never work and criminals on the run are always caught. Because humans are completely impossible to fool and everyone has an eidetic memory for faces.

Regardless of the myriad ways in which a feature such as this is perceivably open to abuse i have yet to hear one that is still a credible threat to the games integrity assuming a 12 month cooldown. How often do you reckon the average EVE criminal finds himself up **** creek? How many EVE players do you know of who are entirely solitary? The name is only a superficial part of a character and, as i have sated earlier, if someone wants you found it will require quite a bit more than a simple name change to stay hidden. You might get a few days or even a week or two in the clear before you are right back where you started, unless you are willing to cut all ties with your friends and start over completely. People who are willing to go this far are probably already doing so using new characters bought from the bazaar.

No. In a sand box game like eve your name is your identity and is tied to a history of acts that effect you player to player reputation. I believe you should never be able to change a name once it's penned. Especially since the sale of a character could depend on that character rep.. actions in eve should have consequences - not all based on game mechanics.

I really don't like the idea of having to sift through mountains of alis' to determine if any player is someone I need to avoid allowing into my corp.