EVE General Discussion

History must remain.
A LOT of players would like to pay PLEX for name change.

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Old name must stay visible forever on Bio, right next to current name. Name change is allowed only every 3 years.

Sounds like something that could be done via Incarna with lots of dirty dealings in station with dodgy characters and the transfer of lots and lots of isk.

Make it a player high tier learnable skill - Forgery

There are lot's of ways to make it work and actually add to the gameplay but it would have to be both difficult and expensive.

I really support the Idea of a name change service even with it being payable with plex! I have bought toons from corp members and past corp mates but prefer a more themed character so people know its 'ME'.

I like CCP Falcons idea here that there should be some sort of name history so that people could view past aliases to prevent those that have ruined their reputation in the game.

But this is where the limits of this should end. The history/legacy of the character is important especially when you are looking for potential spies, theifs, or AWOX'ers.

As an additional thought to help maybe ad an additional feature in the employment history where CEO's can post a reason for being kicked if this is the case where it would identify that they were a suspected thief, spy, or an awoxer. This way what a person does in their history would be set in stone and maybe effectivly make a character useless to a player other than a highsec toon.

Ok, been giving this topic some thought.. IF a namechange system was to be implemented in EVE Online, then I would think it could be done by, as someone mentioned, giving each Pilot a unique and visible ID number.

And if name history should not be visible on character info page, then it should be possible to lookup a name history for a given pilot by using an intel agent, just like you can use a locator agent now.

Same goes for corp history.

This way it allows people to have their name changed, but if they decide to have it hidden, then it's possible to make an intel check on the person to check up on the history on him. So by using some effort it's possible to find a persons background.

One thing to keep in mind, is that in EVE security and intel means a great deal. This would actually add more to the game this way, while still allow people to have their name changed.

It might even be possible to add even more stuff to the intel lookup agent, like stuff about kills and recent losses, and maybe even make it possible to see if a character has changed ownership.. it could be listed like a clone change gone wrong and caused loss of memory. One would think that in a universe like EVE, there would be medical records that would be possible to gain access to, in order to get information like this.

In my humble opinion, this would in the end add to the game experience, and it would give more tools to us paranoid null sec people to worry about

i think this could be useful for many people. When i buy new char i can't be sure i know enough about his past. I don't care TBH.

Let's say you buy character. You don't need his name or appearance, you don't get his assets and ISK (unless previous owner didn't care about it), you don't care about his past. Mostly you want only skillset. So the solution(s):

1) Clear it all, mark character as "bought" and born with date of transfer (this could be visible somewhere but will not interfere with new name and history like it does stupid mark WANTED). So you can live with it as it is your character from start.
If somebody wants to check your character he just checks his birthday and sees: char was bought. No history remains. New owner. You either trust PERSON controlling this char or you don't. It's up to you.

2) Place "pre-buy" history/name/whatever to some "backseat" place like additional button in window "character info". Owner can ignore this area. And when someone too paranoid checks this char he can have access to all information he needs.

I have one character i've bought mostly for jump freighter needs. I really never checked his past. Only seen once in eve-kill that he got caught with some JF somewhere in 0.0. Maybe it is why char was sold? I don't care. Anything what could happen with this char has no connection to me (i mean PERSON).

Once again: we talk here about SPACE PIXELS. Characters don't do s..t itself. Some REAL person does it. Character is asset like ship. Yes for some "RP-like" people characters mean something. But in reality you never can trust any character. You only can trust PERSON controlling this char. And this information isn't a part of char employment history. Add here account sharing (illegal but used very often) and you have even less trust to character.

I'd like to contribute to this post by saying that you can in real world change your name in a very easy way. So, what is the problem in New Eden for doing so?

It seems you cannot either change you corp history, same as It occurs in real life.

Anyway, I'd like to see both things allowed, as a standing reset, since this is a videogame, and It is supossed to be fun. It is disgusting when you love your char but hate what the others do to your character sheet.

A PLEX payment would be enought, I consider.

I feel that this should be offered only for character sales. A rule should be introduced which makes it illegal to trade characters between your own accounts in order to clean a dodgy history.

Why are name changes still being discussed?
It's obvious this is a wanted feature, and nobody who is opposed to it has put any substantial reason forth other than "your actions have consequences" which is irrelevant since the new system would show your name history anyway.

couldn't you just allow this for character purchases? That way the community knows that it isn't the same guy?

I wouldent mind being able to clean up my corp history, not to hide anything, but to get rid of the NPC corps I only spent a few hours in between player corps. That and I was in a hurry typing a corp name and mispelled it. had to start all over and it still shows in my history.