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Character Name Change Concept
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Raely Reborn
State War Academy
Caldari State
#1 - 2013-10-07 21:05:31 UTC
Choices matter in Eve, just as they do in real life. I enjoy this aspect of Eve. However, in real life you can change your name...

1) It's very expensive and time consuming to undergo the process
2) Your old name and new name can always be paired...you can't totally erase your past identity

I suggest that for a fee someone should be able to change their name. I'm thinking a plex. Also, just as a character has employment history there could be name/identity history. Perhaps identity history should replace employment history. Identiy history could:

1) Display in a time line format
2) Contain employment history
3) Contain name history
4) Contain history related to sec status changes
5) Suicide ganking
6) Number of hulk kills
7) Limited based on a certain time frame or perhaps tied to character transferring.

CCP is giving us certifications that allow someone to view pilot capabilities. We have the ability to see employment history. We can review kill boards. All that information is already available to make friend or foe determinations. Would be nicer to have a one stop shop for all of the above and toss in name changing.

Another idea is to throw a new skill...perhaps in social. Espionage skill that allows users more data filtering options in the identity panel.

Anyhow I haven't really matured the idea. What do you all think?
Azami Nevinyrall
172.0.0.1
#2 - 2013-10-07 21:24:56 UTC
Comon CCP... We'll gladly pay PLEX for this!!!

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Raely Reborn
State War Academy
Caldari State
#3 - 2013-10-08 16:14:58 UTC
Bump to generate convo
Judith Frozenvoid
State War Academy
Caldari State
#4 - 2013-10-08 16:18:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Judith Frozenvoid
didn't we just have this same thread only a few days ago...?

Horrible idea! Any allowing of name changing then frees the creater of a character to come up with all manner of ridiculas names without care due to the fact they know they can change them at will is just a contribution to eye soreness. I much rather prefer having the incentive to name the character with a decent name the first time.. or else be penalized when it comes time to sell said character.

This in conjunction with the added annonymous feeling some players may get to commit foulness and then cover their tracks after a fashion will not be a good addition to the game.. There must always be consequences for malevolent or benevolent actions in eve even if they are as small as immediate name recognition.
Kara Trix
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#5 - 2013-10-08 19:22:48 UTC
If it was allowed, the character Bazaar would be crazy busy..

Although, I would use it... I also think it would reduce value in the character.

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Wolfcyra
Yorozuya Technologies
#6 - 2013-11-16 10:18:31 UTC  |  Edited by: Wolfcyra
Well it's not a bad idea i mean in every mmo nowa days (almost every mmo) you can do that with a pay option , tbh it's a good idea but i see that people will change their name then more too often for one or more reasons.

IF ccp would do that then i would suggest that you can change your name only 1 time in your chars life time only just once , don't see that harm in that instead of able to change it multiple times.

Also this gives ccp and people a chance to remove char that have been inactive for a very long of periode (for example 5 years) and allowing the names to be re-used.
Solhild
Doomheim
#7 - 2013-11-16 11:09:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Solhild
This idea does come up a lot so it clearly has support. The argument against is consistent too so I doubt it'll happen unless there's a very good new reason.

My personal preference is as follows:

Allow every character the option to buy an Alias name slot with an agent fee of 500mill isk. The player can then select the displayed name when joining a corp and that one is fixed until the character changes corp. Both names would link back to the character and would need to be unique in game as is currently the case.

EDIT: to clarify, both names are clearly displayed in the character info pane and both names are fixed. So a name can never be deleted/replaced. One name is the given name and the other is the alias. An option to swap given/alias would happen upon corp change but would cost isk, perhaps another 500 million Agent/Concord admin fee or something like that. Consider only making option available to L5 skill characters in Social/Connections/Diplomacy and have specific agents in each faction that will do this (make them equivalent of level 5 for access) Cool

Also - CCP should reclaim any trial account names that are more than one year old. This will help to release decent names back into the game. The expired characters would simply have their names replaced with 'Caldari Citizen 12345' etc. with an option to choose a new name afterwards in the unlikely event that the account is activated and the player wants to reuse the character.

As this is a new idea, I'll create a new threat to see if it has any interest.