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according to Terms of Service, harassment is against the rules of EVE. any player that is harassed has all rights to demand that CCP protects them. i wouldn't be against special actions for special circumstances (think witness protection program), but this is not scope of OP.

This is exactly why you should not have been voted into the CSM. Downvoting a good idea for a simply stupid and ignorant reason just reinforces my impression of you being an idiot.

I am sure I am not the only one who feels this way...


Agreed with the OP and "Liked". If properly implemented this can be a good thing for both the community and CCP. I personally have no problem with my name or any of the names of any of my alts but I know quite a few people who wouldn't mind changing thier names. CCP...there is profit to be had here!

but then transfer becomes way to clear bad rep. simply transfer your character to another account you own, and get free card out of jail. there is simply no way to know who is behind character. that's why rep has to stay with character at all times.

As to my suggestion ao name change forum, similar to the character bazaar.

An easily searchable forum where when a name is changed, you have to post.

*sample post*

Name changed from anewb to noob.

*end sample post*

I think it is unnecessary, but everyone seems to believe they can stalk the person whom first podded them based on their character name.

If you are so scared about people scamming you then don't accept characters that have had name changed, seems like a simple policy to me.

*sample policy*

recruitment note - we will not be accepting characters whom have used the name change feature within the last 6 months.

*end sample policy*

I propose that everyone for this ability demonstrate how easy it is to scam those whom are against the ability using one of the other ways. Like creating a trial alt, creating a regular alt, buying a new charater using the character transfer, hire someone to do it, or become a corp thief with your main. I think that covers it, but I'm sure there are other creative people out there.

On the issue of lowsec pirates, maybe check their sec status? Check local and see if anyone has GCC? Seems like a whole lot less work than remembering a dozen names.

I've had several characters over the years and most who knew me then still call me by my origional character's name.

If reputation based on character name is so important to you, then don't chage your name!

....which is pretty much what I said in the last line that you cut out of the quote, and the one misgiving I'd have for implementing this at all.

Of course, it's also quite possible to purchase yourself a clean rep now by simply selling your toon and buying a new one. If reputation is so critical that no one should ever be allowed to work under a different name, alts shouldn't exist and we should all have only one identity.

This gets....complicated.

edit: I'm going to take the slippery slope down the "reputation MUSt be maintained" line just to show how far it can go. Don't think I'm trying to invalidate the argument, I just want to show how many ways "reputation" is diluted now.

We shouldn't allow name changes because reputation is very important.
-- But toons can be transferred and sold, meaning a person with a bad reputation can buy a "clean" toon
We shouldn't allow character transfers at all, because people shouldn't be able to get that clean slate.
-- But a you can have multiple accounts, one with a good reputation and the other doing all the bad stuff, sometimes to "friends" of the good guy.
We shouldn't allow multiple accounts, because it allows you to do things without them impacting your reputation.
-- But you can create three toons on one account, so they can still do that, just not at the same time.
We should restrict accounts to one toon per account.
-- But if someone ruins their own reputation, they can biomass and start over.
We should stop the ability to biomass toons.

The only way for reputation to really, REALLY matter is for you to only ever be allowed one Eve character. If you can biomass, you can reset your reputation. If you can make alts, you can engage in nefarious activities without spoiling your "good" reputation. If you can trade characters, you can buy toons with good reputations regardless of how you've acted for years.

I'm not advocating for a world where we can change our names for free whenever we want. I'm just saying that this idea that your name is somehow forever tied to your actions in Eve is a myth.

Does an ingame name identify a corp thief, or the avatar that a corp thief was playing?
If the avatar is no longer owned by the "real person" who committed a theft...is that avatar, under its new owner, still a corp thief?

The name of the avatar, tells you absolutely nothing about who is playing the avatar. And with how easy it is to transfer a toon, the history you think you know about an avatar, is ultimately meaningless.

With CCP needing additional revenue sources, this seems like a home run. It would seem it should be easy to implement. I would think it could even be implemented using the petition system and require that much less programming to make it automated.

With all of the nay-sayers whom complain of reputation and corp thieft, I still don't see any potential argument that would justify not allowing this feature. There are simply to many other ways to become someone else, this would simply become yet another way.

The only 'problem' I see with it is people changing their name from anewb to znewb so they're not primary.... It still makes CCP money and it will allow you to make fun of people with names like zzzzzzzzzznewb.

Personally, i think this could be slimmed down by simply giving all players a number (which already exists as far as i know). This number would be used in linking profiles, setting standings, etc. As an example "Bob" AKA "Registered Capsuleer 208456" changes his name to "Steve", like wise known as "Registered Capsuleer 208456", will auto be associated with "Bob" based on their ID number.

This would make it much easier to distinguish between people too, as to search someone it could go from looking up "Bob" and recieving results on every one with the combination of letters bob and having to search for them, to just looking up 208456 and having no confusion.

This method could similarily be applied to alliances and corps, as they would be easily trackable with it. As well as it would open the possibility of allowing possible repeats of names, as confusion can be prevented by the numerical difference between characters. (not that im looking to see 500 john smiths in the john smith corp, show up in a battle and having to call primaries.)

That was more or less the idea, if you can track them based on a unique number that will never change, why would you need to worry abut naming confusion.

And yes, you would know it. it could be as simple as next to your name it says your id number.

sorry but part of the consequence of doing crap to ruin the rep of a character is the destruction of the sale value. Allowing people to change identities at all will allow people to use this as an exploit to avoid any consequence of actions other than a small service fee.

I vote no friggon way!