EVE General Discussion

Corp Spies: AARRGGGHHH!!!! My name and history sucks!!! Change it, change it, change it...

Eve community: NO!!! *with one foot held on spies' chest*

Me: Actually, your history can be changed if you know the right people irl. This whole "you can not change your history" mentallity is complete BS and unrealistic. If this game is truly a sandbox with limitless possiblity, then name and history changes are and should be completely possible. Granted, diifficult it should be but still doable.

BTW, do you really know someones history? Even if they tell you, should you still trust them.

This boils down to players actually learning how to communicate and how to read people effectively and not just going by a list of previous assignments. Employers take this risk everyday when they review and interview potential hires. It introduces a whole new level of gameplay.

I would also welcome the option to change name.

If it was technically possible, we could have a history of previous aliases / names and their employment history (using simple drop-down boxes perhaps?).

For example:
Name 1 - corp1, corp2, corp3
Name2 - corp3, corp4

I think this might be handy for the characters that get sold as you would almost start a clean slate, but if the name had a bad reputation they could still check it and check with the respective corps.

I think we all agree on having some sort of name history and using the above mentioned method might also help with the previous corp employments. But instead of wiping the history it would rather sort it. Essentially history and reputation is tied to the name and not the character.

Ok, I've been reading both sides of this issue and I understand where some of you are coming from. But, I also see that most of it is from a moral stand point, including you CCP Falcon.

I also understand that CCP wants to keep their hands out of the actual player interactions as much as possible.

Here is an idea that I purpose.

How about there is a skill tree that allows for characters to change other characters names and manipulate their personal history. (Notice I said manipulate, I'll come back to that.) Now, the characters who train these skills still can not change their own name or personal history. There could be other restriction based on security status and what not. (haven't really thought about that side of it yet).

Back to the manipulation of player history. Depending on the character's skill level will determine how far back they can manipulate the other character's history. There could also be an invisible tag that is left behind on the altered character to show that it has been manipulated. Yes, invisible.

On the reverse side, there would be a counter skill under say corp management. Depending on the skill level will determine if and how far back you can see that tag that is usually invisible to the unskilled character. If you don't train this skill, it's your own fault if your corp gets robbed. Remember, consequences of your choices.

What this has the potential to do for EVE:

1. Encourage more player interaction, and not just scams.
2. Creates another player based service.
3. Creates another means for the velocity of isk (transfer of isk from one character to another) to help with the ingame economy and inflation(granted not much on the inflation)
4. I'm sure there are a few others but my brain isn't working right now.

These are just thoughts and ideas. If you can think of anything to add please do so. I'm only looking for constructive criticism and one line comments will be ignored unless it does make a quick valid point. I will admit this is a rough outline and probably has a few holes in it but I'm sure we can figure something out that can please both sides of this argument.

The very essence of this topic is EVE. There are no rules or regulations against this kind of thing because it is an anything goes kind of game (new player harassment aside). To me it would NOT make sense to leave this aspect of the game out of EVE.

Chech. Preach on Passtah.

... oh boy New York stupidity now in this thread.

NO


Look better on the bazaar...Plenty of characters for sale without a ruined reputation...Then again, they might not be as cheap you want them to be.

Your idea jsut makes people with money have more ability then people without money. AKA pay2win feature is back....Guys assemble in Jita on the monument...

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Also, if you buy some character from the forums, you can always use the same thread in the future to proof you have bought that character.

I would be a fan of having characters bought/sold on the Bazaar having their corp history wiped. It is going to a new owner, so the history is effectively null before the point of sale.

DoB at char creation date.
Redacted history from creation date to sale/xfer date.
Normal corp history with starter corp being on date of x-fer completion.

I haven't read others ideas but here's my opinion and solution:
I think that name change and corp history should be allowed to be erased, but at the same time an option of history search should be added to a locator/ public relationships agent for 'x' amount of isk. This way corp history is not really erased but hidden very well, and for the right amount of isk it can be revealed to you after let's say 3 days.
Also I believe that time stamp from your corp history should be completely erased... I think it silly to show someone's age in this game simply because it ruins things for new players as it marks them as a fresh target and in the same time It harms old players because new players are so freakishly afraid of anyone who is older than 6 month.

Wrote this from my phone,my apologies for any grammatical mistakes.

I'm all against name changes and clearing of history, this is EVE, one of the most ruthless and savage games in existence..

If you buy a character then you buy it with it's name and history, and if the character has a history as a corp thief or what is worse, then it should be that much cheaper to buy.

Please do it....

I will trow some PLEXes into the system and just claim a lot of names...


Have you thought of the downside that EVERY time you rename you have to think of something totally unique.

Atm when a character is biomassed his name comes open again for use, when you do have history in names, it isn't possible cause it means multiple people have the same name in their history.

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Usually say in New Citizen part of forum that stupid ideas and questions don't exist.

You have just showed how wrong I was.