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Edward Kell
Bloodpact Enterprises
#1 - 2017-02-03 22:46:30 UTC
I feel like there should be a mechanic for players changing their names. I realize that the reason for CCP not offering players the opportunity to change their names is that players with a reputation or bounty are stuck with it. However, in a science fiction setting with space pirates and drug manufacturing, is it unreasonable to believe that there would be people that could forge identifications? If there was forgeable player IDs, the original player name would not be completely discarded as there could also be a mechanic set in place to detect players using an alias. Anyone else have thoughts on this? Thanks.

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Daichi Yamato
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#2 - 2017-02-03 23:44:03 UTC
No one has come up with a way to easily search someone and let them change their name. They always require lots of coding or a lot of work from the person looking up the char.

Do a search on the forums, there are quite a few threads on this. But given that you can buy/sell chars and inject skills into new toons, all the hassle associated with changing names is hard to justify.

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Cade Windstalker
#3 - 2017-02-04 07:31:24 UTC
The point to not allowing a name change is to not make it easy. Consequences and building a reputation as as much game mechanics of Eve as RP and story considerations so you can't just look at this from a story perspective and say "that seems reasonable".

If we're talking Eve players it's pretty reasonable that someone would have found a way to blow up Jita 4-4 with a Freighter full of antimatter, but that would make for poor gameplay so it's not allowed by the mechanics.
Lugh Crow-Slave
#4 - 2017-02-04 08:11:51 UTC
Speaking of are we all ready for jita burn?

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Rivr Luzade
Coreli Corporation
Pandemic Legion
#5 - 2017-02-04 09:49:44 UTC
No one who deliberately names their character "Warp To Me", "Your FC Is" or things like "Anastasia StupidWhore" or "DumbFish FurScales" should ever have the opportunity to rename their characters.

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Nat Silverguard
Aideron Robotics
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#6 - 2017-02-05 05:00:42 UTC
CCP already implemented this, it's called 'Skill Extractors/Injectors'

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#7 - 2017-02-05 05:06:48 UTC
OP, Eve China offers character renaming.

https://pay.tiancity.com/eve/Service/RoleRenameMenu.aspx

Google Translate wrote:
Role renamed Platform Description:
Role renaming platform is for all non-stop status of the type of user, provide a role to modify the role of the platform. Each time to pay 1,000 points a century Tiancheng points, and each opportunity can only account under a role name to be modified.
Renamed condition:
1, the account number is not closed state;
2, the account number has 1,000 points Tiancheng century points;
3, the account number in the game off the assembly line state;
4, choose to modify the role of the name in a normal state (non-waiting to delete state);
5, enter the new role name does not contain illegal characters and the length of not more than 11 Chinese characters;
6, the input of the new role name is not used.
Precautions:
1, the role of the game name change is generally effective immediately, but there may be system synchronization delay problem, the next service
After the normal maintenance of the display, please do not have to worry about players.
2, all successful changes in the role of the name of the record can be in the platform of the "modified role name list" view.


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Keno Skir
#8 - 2017-02-05 14:35:06 UTC
^ If EvE China does it, we should consider it a definitive sign we should be doing the opposite Pirate

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#9 - 2017-02-05 15:43:14 UTC
Serenity has quite a few interesting features.

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