EVE General Discussion

I would like to see paid name changes. It would be a good income for CCP plus I bet it would make a lot of the player base happy. Now I know some people don't want this to happen because what if John Doe stole 100B ISK from his last corporation changes his name and joins a new corporation to just do it again because no one knows who he is. Now no one wants something like this to happen but I think CCP could do something to see the past records of the player.

Now I've played a lot of other MMOs in my time and I've seen many ways other companies handle name changes. They could do something that Aion does when it comes to a name change. When someone changes their name in Aion there is no way of seeing what their last name was in game but if you go onto the website to the Shadow Court Archives you can look up their name and it tells you their previous name. Here is what they say about it:



Or CCP could do what Jagex does with Runescape. When a player changes their name if you hover a players name in your friends list it tells you their previous name. Now that only works for a month then you can't hover over the names to get the previous name.



Now if I was CCP I would do one of two things. I would make a new tab in the player info that shows all previous names or I would make a new money sink. If you want a players past info you would have to paid for the info. All name changes would be on a month cooldown and cost about 2 plex or $20.


Now for corporation history removal that is a totally different subject. I would say make it like name changes have a new tab in player info that shows it or make players have to pay for that info. But I really don't know about that and what the cost for it should be. I would say make it cost a lot something like $70 - $100.

TL:DR version: Just read it...

This thread has seen a half-dozen quality methods of reducing or eliminating the downsides of name changing.

Corporation history and other things aside. Name changing would be simple and quick to implement and you could do it in a way that would prohibit abuse. After reviewing this thread, there's no intelligent reason not to have this option.

Also, to all the condescendingly paternal tough-guy asshats. Thank you for telling us to live with our consequences. Your saged fatherly advice has changed our hearts and caused us to reassess how we choose to live as fictional videogame characters. Your input on this forum and in this thread is anything but a total joke and you should continue posting your opinions for our betterment.

I have always assumed that these names we have are not so much names as aliases or call signs. If you change your name you should have all other aliases or call signs listed on show info.

In a way, but at the same time it could almost turn the character bazaar into a sort of roundabout scam. I mean, part of it is supposed to be complete disclosure, right? So in a way, scammer could use their scam alts as training ones, scam, cheat, steal from people until everyone is out to get them and then sell it when they're ready before starting anew. So while someone will buy the character, maybe they can't do what they intend with it because of the reputation being too trashy and they happened to miss the memo. So instead of knowing what they're getting into as intended with the bazaar, they have no idea. Perhaps not against the rules of the character bazaar, but seems to be against the spirit of the rules.

Playing devil's advocate for a moment, many scammers in real life shed identities like snake shed their skin, and oftentimes, those shady players are selling their toons on the Character Bazaar anyways. So if someone creates a new toon every few months and goes out and scams the pants off of someone, then sells the toon after making a new one to repeat the cycle, the toon itself is not responsible for the scamming/corp theiving/etc. It's the person behind the character that counts, and until you find a way to link real identities to toons, there is no point (sometimes) to have a link to past identities because it might not even be the same player anymore. A character could go from an evil bastard to a full-on saint, and the only one who gets punished is the saint for the actions of the bastard.

Like I said, devil's advocate.

But the new owner didn't participate in all the "evil doing"... If we wanna see all the douchebaggery a character participated in... why no show ALL THE ALTS HISTORY??? Look at one see them all. That would show all the history of gank alts and what account they're being funded by that way a gank alt can be hurt where they live and not just gank and bio massed to hide the history, Rinse and Repeat

Personally, I think when a character is transferred to another account owned by a different player it should get a name change. It's a new player behind the character so keeping the old reputation isn't a concern.

Since i cant be arsed to read all 17 some pages this may have been suggested already, but since the two sides seem to be the "oh its new rl person the history is now irrelevant" and the " you bought the char deal with the history", how about a compromise? Whenever a character is sold on the bazaar, put a line in the corp history section that says "character was bought on xx/xx/xxxx" This way we keep the characters history intact yet also give those buying a character a way to explain why the characters last 12 corps were robbed to oblivion. While this does lend to the possibility of abuse(via buying your own char with a second account just to get that marker) i think its a acceptable tradeoff to at least give the new owners at least some ground to stand on when a corp looks at their history.

EDIT: on the subject of names, you can change your name irl so i dont see why we cant in game. although just like irl a record should be kept of previous names(somewhere on the char sheet)

My personal view is game has things that need much more developer love then this...

Im not totally against name change, but you should not be able to hide your past. And even name chnage should be limited option and expensive... One name change for 2-3 years allowed and you get big fat flag on your character saying: Not original name...

Eve is game where your choises is supposed to matter, if you can eaily escape some of consequences of those choises, well... Its not eve anymore. Yes its not imbossible now days either to escape them, but you pay by having to reroll your entire charachter...

If you are corporate thief and you just stole 100 bil isk, whats one plex to escape that past? Nothing. Thats why i want name changes to be expensive, seriously. And that high price also means you actually put some thinking into good character name.

Take this to assembly hall please.