EVE General Discussion

I think that name changes are fine as long as there is a way to see past names at a glance.

There is a reason they call it the "character bazaar". You're buying a character, not a bag of skill points.

Id rather a system in place were i could reset sp some stuff i trained years ago on few alts are totaly useless as never get used if i could get that sp bck and put into other skills id pay few plex for that

but no to name or history change tbh

My 2 cents...

EVE Online is about actions and consequences... as Retribution demonstrates.

If you create a character and name it "Twinky Asshat" and then go on to kill, steal, scam and generally cause mayhem, you should then NOT be able to turn around, change the name, wipe the history and sell if for a profit. There should be consequences for your actions. If your name or history lowers the value on the Character Bazaar, then it seems that EVE is working as intended. However, I would point out that a character with those attributes might be desirable to some individuals.

Likewise, if you are too lazy to create a new character, you should not be given the option of changing the name on a bought character or change its history. That is the consequences of being LAZY. If you like the character but not the name, move on... there will be another character with another name available soon.

100$ bucks? That's madness.

Just slap a separator on the corp history when a character gets sold. Just a bold line with annotation will do just fine.

This.

I have bought and sold a few characters on the forums. The FIRST thing I look at is the character's name.
If it doesn't have a cool or catchy name,or if it has some random name like assr69, I won't click the link to their post.

The name is the deal breaker for me. You can always train skills to polish or perfect a pilot to your liking...but so far a name is something that is set in stone.

Perhaps having an option in Character Transfers to change the name to something of the buyer's liking, and to cover your bases, something in the employment history like so,

Imperial Academy 2011.02.09 10:01 to 2011.03.01 10:09 (as Amarr Citizen 04562)

Just a thought.

History of employment is definitley something that should be kept alive because it's part of a character's personal portfolio BUT what's the idea behind the fact that absolutely everybody is able to look up that history without any effort?
It makes absolutely no sense. In real life nobody is able to look up my employment history until I decide to tell somebody.

EVE is a game of complex social interaction but the players aren't given any option to take care of their personal information and privacy. Actually a character in EVE is nothing more than some kind of profile on Facebook or any other social media platform. Just without options to restrict public access to personal information.

Of course this comparison seems a bit to far out but in the end this point of view should at least be taken into consideration when talking about player's employment history. Maybe you should look at it that way: In EVE nothing is given for free. Everything has to be earned. Why should be getting intel any different?

In a world where privacy of personal information nowadays is a highly sensitive topic for everyone I think that in a game world like EVE is simulating one this topic shouldn't be left behind / touched differently.

Perhaps you could go through a process of erasure from concord records by paying the correct sum to a dodgy inside agent, the payment perhaps based on the number of SPs. You would have all your standings reset, a complete physical re-customisation, and all history removed, and perhaps a loss of 10% skill points as you undergo the rigorous transformation process. That seems to fit in with eve lore, and I think a fair price to pay for those who really do have a truly bad name. Perhaps some kind of visual scarring could be left on your character portrait to indicate that you have been through the process of identity erasure.

The answer is no you pay for rent a acount not to ownd a acount jezus people read the damn faq and user agrement for ones.

End of discusion now and in the future. stupid world of wacraft players.

Corp history could include a line in employment history indicating where a sale of character occurred.

Yes to both. This esp makes sense if the character was transferred, or if you made the character when you were 10 and picked a dumb name that you regret years later.

Corp history? Yes. If you bought the character or if you have been away from some time and come back but don't want to be tied to your old corp history, starting a new life is nice.

Things you did 10 years ago shouldn't matter. If you don't like the corp history wipe for non-transfered characters, then at least allow it to wipe history from 3+ years ago. So your recent corp history still matters, but you aren't forever punished for things you did as a kid years and years ago. I think this is reasonable.