EVE General Discussion

Any name change makes it basically impossible to know who is who from local.
This is bad. Even if history is kept it still impacts on actual game play.

I would not be against a 'nickname' being added to the character sheet and people having the option to display nicknames if they wanted to, while the default remains 'Registered name'.
That would allow 'changing names' without actually affecting the game systems like a real name change would.

You are talking about a game where players have...

- infiltrated other corporations and alliances and spent a year working their way up the ranks... just to assassinate an alliance leader in his blinged out ship and steal everything of value from the alliance.

- created a half dozen accounts to min/max various PvE content in order to make the most money per hour.

- done this. (granted, he created the setup for other reasons, but still... wtf?)

- bought 72 PLEXes and undocked in an untanked frigate in one of the busiest and lethal trade hubs in the game.

- used and spent several trillion ISK to play market shenanigans in a rival alliance's station with an alt character spy... for weeks.

- gamed a newly revamped Faction Warfare system to play the market and drive PLEX prices up 100%+ in less than a month using convoluted tricks (this happened in 2013).

- allegedly cut the powercables to a guy's apartment in REAL LIFE just to kill his Titan in-game.


Yeah... people would totally do it just for that reason.

Um, you understand that this is a video game and not deadly serious living in a war zone where choosing poorly can cost you your life type stuff, right?

Players shouldn't be punished forever just because they made up a goofy name when they were on the free trial and didn't even know if they would be staying in the game. There are possible ways, many of which have been discussed over the years on these forums, to allow name changes while not allowing the change to act as a cover for past (mis)deeds.

No one's asking CCP to cure cancer or develop cold nuclear fusion here. It shouldn't be that difficult to come up with a workable system to allow name changes while maintaining accountability. Just takes will on the part of CCP and acceptance of change by the hard line bittervet types.

Dont worry about scammers, they will perservere no matter what.

Now we have more serious thing than name changes, like characters changing their owners. I am talking about personality and skills and all of that. Completely other human playing the same character.

We are in a super futuristic sci fi universe in which we can reincarnate ourselves into different bodies, so is it implausible that we have no way to change our name or identity?

I have nothing against name change or even an identity wipe in principle, I think it adds another nice twist to the universe. But I wouldn't want it to be easy as the possibilities of abuse are obvious, and so for that reason I would only be happy if you lose 20% of your total SP pool in the process.

That being said if someone really wants to change their identity and have a new start then why not let them instead of having to start a new character from scratch?

Also this discussion will be irrelevant if CCP implements the terrible skill trading proposal they announced as you will be able to simply buy a new character and train them up with skill packets with no trace of your previous identity.

Problem is some people are already paranoid enough as it is. Do you really want to make them more paranoid?

If a name change isn't needed on Gmail, I don't see why it's needed here.

Both have the same policy to a name change: If you want to change it, make a new character.

you dont trade email accounts nor invest time to build an email account, an email account is easily just deleted and you can also forward any mail from the old to the new. so silly comparison.