These forums have been archived and are now read-only.

The new forums are live and can be found at https://forums.eveonline.com/

EVE General Discussion

 
  • Topic is locked indefinitely.
123Next pageLast page
 

Corp Names Taken by Alts
Author
Previous Topic Next Topic
Flaming Head
Doomheim
#1 - 2012-04-11 15:58:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Flaming Head
So...the time has come to make a corp!

Name choosing...name choosing...name choosing. Oh...every name I think up appears to be taken by a one man corp whose CEO is a faceless placeholder alt sitting on a forgotten and long deactivated account!

Is there no way CCP can do some kind of corp purge and reset the names of corporations that have only 1 character on a deactivated account and haven't been touched for >5 years or something? (I'd say 2 or 3 years personally but those people 'might' come back to their no face alts with 5,000sp and 5,000ISK I suppose....../sarcasm).

I think it's safe to say that if someone hasn't logged in for 3/4/5 years and has no corp members left/was using an alt to keep a corp name 'safe', they aren't going to miss said corp even if they ever do resub (unlikely) and if they do miss it, so what they haven't been playing for 5 years???.

/dons flame retardant / tin foil hat / conspiracy cape / deceit diaper / troll t-shirt / pubbie pettiecoat / etc...
Vetorept Fera
Doomheim
#2 - 2012-04-11 16:02:13 UTC
No. Be original. Be creative.

In pace requiescat
Destination SkillQueue
Doomheim
#3 - 2012-04-11 16:03:43 UTC
Use an original name or bypass the limitation by using an extra symbol in the name. I'm not saying your idea is bad, just that this really is an issue you can easily get around on your own by using a minimum amount of imagination.
THE L0CK
Denying You Access
#4 - 2012-04-11 16:03:53 UTC
Vetorept Fera wrote:
Be original. Be creative.




Vetorept Fera wrote:
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Do you smell what the Lock's cooking?
namron 7
Doomheim
#5 - 2012-04-11 16:08:42 UTC
Im sure that this is one of the rules of the internet.

"All the best names will be taken"

Thanks for the help
Flaming Head
Doomheim
#6 - 2012-04-11 16:10:56 UTC
What on earth is 'be original' supposed to mean? Everything was original at some point. Providing I am not trying to copy something else I have seen or copy a well known phrase I am 'being original'.

Eve has been around for almost 10 years, how many thousands of word combination corporations have been created since?

Unless I want to call my corporation something completely random like Mouse Melon Jesus Socks, everything I have come up with so far has been taken.

And no I am not trying to call myself names like 'Alpha Corp', 'Apature Science' or 'Temporal Shift'. That really would be 'unoriginal'.
MeestaPenni
Mercantile and Stuff
#7 - 2012-04-11 16:13:21 UTC
Look around...

"Mouse Melon Jesus Socks" will fit in quite well.

I am not Prencleeve Grothsmore.
Cipher Jones
The Thomas Edwards Taco Tuesday All Stars
#8 - 2012-04-11 16:13:23 UTC
In Eve the people who want to leave forever biomass. Everyone else still gets to keep their name.

internet spaceships

are serious business sir.

and don't forget it
Gerald Taric
NEO DYNAMICS
#9 - 2012-04-11 16:13:53 UTC
Well, continue your try to search for an unique name would be the better option.
Taking something from others is always some kind of problematic.

And by the way:

It sounds strange, that you always get names, which are already taken. Add some words to it ... for example let's say "gold, platinum, diamond" ... or ... "Inc. , & Co. ,".

Or be more brave and seek for words in other languages, maybe latin?
Micheal Dietrich
Kings Gambit Black
#10 - 2012-04-11 16:13:58 UTC
MeestaPenni wrote:
Look around...

"Mouse Melon Jesus Socks" will fit in quite well.



Too late, I just created it.

Out of Pod is getting In the Pod - Join in game channel **IG OOPE **
Killer Gandry
The Concilium Enterprises
#11 - 2012-04-11 16:14:41 UTC
Creating a corpname is easy. The ticker is more of an issue.
Palovana
Inner Fire Inc.
#12 - 2012-04-11 16:14:52 UTC
(Adjective) (Noun) Inc.

Like a game of Mad Libs.

Please support: export of settings in editable format

Your stuff goes here.
Isha Aylet
Doomheim
#13 - 2012-04-11 16:15:21 UTC
Put a . after it?

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll. I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. **~* William Ernest Henley*~  **
Darth Gustav
Sith Interstellar Tech Harvesting
#14 - 2012-04-11 16:16:35 UTC  |  Edited by: Darth Gustav
Flaming Head wrote:
What on earth is 'be original' supposed to mean? Everything was original at some point. Providing I am not trying to copy something else I have seen or copy a well known phrase I am 'being original'.

Eve has been around for almost 10 years, how many thousands of word combination corporations have been created since?

Unless I want to call my corporation something completely random like Mouse Melon Jesus Socks, everything I have come up with so far has been taken.

And no I am not trying to call myself names like 'Alpha Corp', 'Apature Science' or 'Temporal Shift'. That really would be 'unoriginal'.


So players who paid their million ISK to start a corp and then took a break from Eve should be stripped of their ISK's value (Corp/Corpname taken away) for your mental convenience?

Precisely how many corps would have to become Corp####### before your brain has enough power to come up with a corp name that is no longer taken? How many perturbations of your ideas did you try? Did you use synonyms? Acronyms? Did you try splashing in a dash of l33t?

I only wonder because it seems to me like your idea is pretty terrible and you wouldn't want this to happen to you after a break from Eve anymore than the people whose corpnames you want to victimize. Especially given how much effort you have obviously had to put into it.

Am I right?

He who trolls trolls best when he who is trolled trolls the troller. -Darth Gustav's Axiom
Chokichi Ozuwara
Perkone
Caldari State
#15 - 2012-04-11 16:19:02 UTC
Darth Gustav wrote:
I only wonder because it seems to me like your idea is pretty terrible and you wouldn't want this to happen to you after a break from Eve anymore than the people whose corpnames you want to victimize.

Am I right?

Please stop posting. Every post you make is absolutely terrible.

Tears will be shed and pants will need to be changed all round.
Darth Gustav
Sith Interstellar Tech Harvesting
#16 - 2012-04-11 16:21:39 UTC
Chokichi Ozuwara wrote:
Darth Gustav wrote:
I only wonder because it seems to me like your idea is pretty terrible and you wouldn't want this to happen to you after a break from Eve anymore than the people whose corpnames you want to victimize.

Am I right?

Please stop posting. Every post you make is absolutely terrible.


I see you paid close attention to my signature and then went ahead and did this anyway.

Good job!

Any real criticism of what I had to say or just this glittering generality?

BTW propaganda is easy-mode for thinkers.

He who trolls trolls best when he who is trolled trolls the troller. -Darth Gustav's Axiom
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#17 - 2012-04-11 16:22:22 UTC
namron 7 wrote:
Im sure that this is one of the rules of the internet.

"All the best names will be taken"

Yup. We already have the best corp name, for instance. P
Petrus Blackshell
Rifterlings
#18 - 2012-04-11 16:24:34 UTC
Flaming Head wrote:
Mouse Melon Jesus Socks

That is actually a great name, I will take it tonight with an alt.

You need more imagination, OP. I don't know what sort of corp you want to create, but here are some suggestions that aren't taken:


  • Gamma Draconis Industries
  • Elysium Corp
  • Hermes Freight Services
  • Forum Whiners Inc
  • My Duck Is On Fire
  • Accidentally The Whole Ship
  • Fragstorm
  • Honeybadger (or Honeybadgers)
  • Petrus Blackshell Is Awesome


I particularly recommend that last one.

Accidentally The Whole Frigate - For-newbies blog (currently on pause)
Darth Gustav
Sith Interstellar Tech Harvesting
#19 - 2012-04-11 16:26:51 UTC
Petrus Blackshell wrote:
Flaming Head wrote:
Mouse Melon Jesus Socks

That is actually a great name, I will take it tonight with an alt.

You need more imagination, OP. I don't know what sort of corp you want to create, but here are some suggestions that aren't taken:


  • Gamma Draconis Industries
  • Elysium Corp
  • Hermes Freight Services
  • Forum Whiners Inc
  • My Duck Is On Fire
  • Accidentally The Whole Ship
  • Fragstorm
  • Honeybadger (or Honeybadgers)
  • Petrus Blackshell Is Awesome


I particularly recommend that last one.

Totally not an empty quote. Also: I +1'd this.

He who trolls trolls best when he who is trolled trolls the troller. -Darth Gustav's Axiom
Flaming Head
Doomheim
#20 - 2012-04-11 16:33:54 UTC
Darth Gustav wrote:
Flaming Head wrote:
What on earth is 'be original' supposed to mean? Everything was original at some point. Providing I am not trying to copy something else I have seen or copy a well known phrase I am 'being original'.

Eve has been around for almost 10 years, how many thousands of word combination corporations have been created since?

Unless I want to call my corporation something completely random like Mouse Melon Jesus Socks, everything I have come up with so far has been taken.

And no I am not trying to call myself names like 'Alpha Corp', 'Apature Science' or 'Temporal Shift'. That really would be 'unoriginal'.


So players who paid their million ISK to start a corp and then took a break from Eve should be stripped of their ISK's value (Corp/Corpname taken away) for your mental convenience?

Precisely how many corps would have to become Corp####### before your brain has enough power to come up with a corp name that is no longer taken? How many perturbations of your ideas did you try? Did you use synonyms? Acronyms? Did you try splashing in a dash of l33t?

I only wonder because it seems to me like your idea is pretty terrible and you wouldn't want this to happen to you after a break from Eve anymore than the people whose corpnames you want to victimize. Especially given how much effott you have obviously had to put into it.

Am I right?


No actually, if I came back to eve after 5 years of not playing and found myself in a noob corp and someone else had my original corp name I would think 'fair enough', as I would imagine most rational people would.

I would say that perhaps the word 'played' is key here to describe someone who hasn't logged in for 5 years...you are likely uppity about the idea because you continue to play and assign social value to the name of your corp rather and those it, something that someone who comes back to Eve after 5 years is unlikely to do I should imagine given that there would be no one left in the corp in the situations I have described...).

If taking away a name from a legitimate player is such an issue, a simple fix would be to parse the database for corporations held by alts with no skillpoint development at all on accounts that have been inactive for >5 years. A number of legitimate players holding a corp in this way to be affected would be so miniscule to not merit mentioning compared with the number of forgotten faceless alts of people who tried eve, created a corp and decided not to bother.
123Next pageLast page