EVE General Discussion

I too have mixed feelings about this.. I think if CCP was to implement a name change system. It would have to include a few things.

1) An indiction on the toon's corp history where the transfer was made. as in Old name + old corp history [break] New name + new corp history

2) Limit it to one time per character

I see arguments for both that make sense, on one hand you are already able to buy and sell characters, rescuplt for plex at any time, so why shouldn't you be able to change your name (for a bought toon,) ? At the same time, I can see it being a huge deal to many.

Edit: Or...What about simply adding the ability to have a nickname? And you can choose on your bio which name is displayed to the public. Someone could simply mouse over your name and it show your "real" name or other "aliases" ? That way you arent changing it but just adding a nickname. Just a thought

I agree, it's extremely difficult to use the character bazaar to "reinvent" oneself when the Tengu alt you bought turns out to be black listed.

Name Changes and History wipes should be an option.

Couldnt it be possible to implement some IRL changes to EVE here? It is fully legal to change your name to something else. However that name change is registered and stored somewhere ( where I dont know , but Im sure the police or someone has track of it )

We have ID papers IRL, such as Passports that we have to renew every X amount of years. You can fake ID papers, ( at least in movies )

Offer a name change once every 1 year just like a remap of attributes with or without cost. But it should be possible to look up the previous owners name and his previous corp history. If this action is limited to once every year it wouldnt be abused at much ( perhaps )

you should know by now Eve is full of these

I don't like the idea of a name change in EVE.

I would like to see a flag on a character in game that it was traded. That way someone who looks at the character can see without having to go to a forum post that the character was traded and has a 'new' owner.

Actually.

I think that name change and corp history wipes should be mandatory when buying a char. However they should put something that says who the character used to be.

Theres no reason for a guy to buy reputation and glory with ISK when he doesn't actually deserve any of it.

Isn't wiped clear. You can still see if you look. And go ahead and pay 20 bucks every time you wanna do that.

The only thing my solution does is make sure somebody doesn't buy a famous toon and pretend they are them.

Dear CCP Falcon - we have had numerous threads before about this very issue. I'll quote myself from one of them;

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"Your name is your reputation" is nothing short of a bad excuse these days for not implementing name change. Only the ballsiest and/or most sociopathic players don't use alts to scam or otherwise inconvenience other players, instead of reveling in their bad rep. However, a considerable amount of people are avoiding karma simply by having alts. With the plex system having a "dirty work alt" is easier than it was ever before.

I nevertheless would want this to become an actual paid feature with ideas that have been passed around before in greater detail, like once a year maximum, a reasonable yet abuse discouraging price tag (say, the price of a months sub, and you couldn't buy it with PLEX).

To make a compromise to the ever complaining, self entitled bitter vets, namechanged accounts should be noticeable somehow, possibly having a small star(*), exclamation point(!) or any variant thereof, added behind their name.
It should be fairly unobtrusive on the name itself, but still appear in the overview/chatlists in a way that would be immediately noticeable. This would alert the most paranoid of us to check the many times over suggested name history tab of the character.

Personally I'd even be happy with just having a slot you could fill out yourself in style of roleplaying addons of other MMO's, that would display when opening character info, under a characters name. Other people could use it to add imaginary titles to themselves or something.

EDIT:
Adding this link for good measure to a thread about this in CSM, it debunks the common reasons for saying "no" much better than I ever could.
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=8710

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If I am correct you have let your corp know and have to be in a pc corp before you can sell it

This would be pretty profitable for them and would be a sound business decision. As it wouldn't hurt the game if done properly.

But this is precisely why it will never happen.