Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Sadly, that's already the case. Because there are hundreds of characters sold every week.

I would agree with you except that it would be a paid service, not for free.

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I just finished reading a few post I haven't read in a few days. So a little catch up.

It seems that everyone is still hung up on the whole "Your name saves your consequences" Ideology.

I understand why people cling to this idea. But to be honest it is stupid. This ideology would have been a better argument as to why characters should not be allowed to be traded. But guess what? They can be traded.

If characters were not trade-able then reputations following a character would be 100% reasonable.

Say I steal from someone. I am now branded an AWOXer. I go silent a few months, or more, and try to sell my character. No one catches me and during the background check of my character nothing is found by the buyer. I unload the character on them. They start flying around start getting crapped on. They are being camped in stations and killed on site.

Meanwhile, I bought myself a brand new character and I'm infiltrating someone else's corp to AWOX them.

My point is that the "Your name saves your consequences" Ideology is no longer valid. It was valid when the consequences held the character responsible for their actions and in turn held the player responsible for their character's actions.

This is no longer the case, Period.

I have no bad nor good reputation on any of my accounts at this time(unless people want to hold this thread against me)
My reasons for wanting this service is like the quote above me says, for vanity. Also it's not like I will keep wanting to change my name. I first proposed a 1 year cooldown then later on agreed even a 3 year cooldown would be perfect.

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Now here is another scenario. Say, like above, I AWOX and steal billions from you or your corp. I buy a new character and Delete my AWOXer character. A new player starts up and picks my old name and starts getting into all the joys of EVE. One day about a year or so later you see the bastard that stole billions from you. You start camping and harassing him and tarnishing his name to everyone that will listen. This player has now invested a year or more into nothing because of me.

Now what? Some other player is now suffering for another player's actions.

Same with Kill Boards. It is their own fault they are using the name to store data. It could be displaying KB history from 3 years previous on a character less than a year old.

I sent in a petition asking if there was a service i did not know about before i posted here. I was told they had no say in new features and it would be best for me to post here and they would also pass the word on to people that matter. So that is why I posted my proposal here. :)

That could kill the server.

Chribba changed his name ...

even if it cost 200 plexes, still no.

if u buy a character that has enemies, thats the inherent risk of buying a character. Because u ARE buying a character with history and a reputation, a reputation associated with his name. if u truly want a neutral character, then make ur own rather than buying.

as for mailing everyone who has the character as a contact...thats just silly. who sends the mail? what about ppl who dont currently have the character as a contact but want to look them up at a later date? what if one day i decided to go after seleene for his bounty, but i cant add him as a contact for my watchlist because he changed his name and i had no reason to have him as a contact until now?

Make the name change available as a paid service!

Add a tab in the BIO section on the char "old names" ou something like that as in the "employment history"

This way the name change is only "esthetic", people can get new callsigns for new bought accounts or whatever, ccp wins, client wins, everyone wins.

You ****** up, your history of ******* up should stay with you. Name included. At best you should be able to register an alias, but this should not push away your readily available character's name for research purposes.

I'm against as always.

Oh and any restriction, is actually no restriction at all. Whether it be only after a sale, or only every 3 yesrs per account.

I actually don't see any issues with the idea of changing names as often as one wants, as long as the following is done:

* The character obviously has an "original name" that was given to it by its first owner.

* A new name can be given to it anytime, however, that name is only an "alias" and remains purely for looks.

* Clicking on names brings up the character sheet with the current alias in such a way that anyone with an IQ higher then room temperature can plainly see that the "new" name is the alias, and ALL other information is still tied to a totally different name - that being the original name the toon was born with.

... on the flipside, the obvious MASSIVE cons against this idea is making CCP code new, and technically, useless bits as far as the core of the game is concerned.

Making the service rather expensive would stop the database polluting with secondary/tertiary names, still allowing actual new owners to give better names to their toons then ones like "BJ Supreme" and "Anal Avenger"

If CCP came out and said "oh yea, we have something in the code already "clickity clickity DONE" then fine. If they said "we have to assign 100 man hours to get this done" then frak that, CCP has better things to do.

I agree with the poster name changes should be allowed in the game, with a cost of course, maybe we should campaign to get CCP to implement it. I for one would rather be called Rogue Banker :D