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Velodra Gison
Caldari East Khanid Trading Khanid Trade Syndicate
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Posted - 2007.09.24 20:07:00 -
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I was playing around with some anagrams, and I thought this one would make a nice name. Recruitment Thread EKT Website |
Patch86
Di-Tron Heavy Industries Atlas Alliance
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Posted - 2007.09.24 20:10:00 -
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Mine is an old online screen name from back when I used to play AoE on "MSN Game Zone", and has been used pretty consistently for my whole online presence ever since.
From a philosophical perspective, I don't consider any of these names on our characters our "names", that our in-game parents gave us and our in-game school mates shouted in our in-game playground. I consider it a "call sign", in the same vein as "Starbuck" and "Hotdog" from BSG or "Maverick" and "Iceman" from Top Gun, or what have you. Some people may choose to use their actual name as their call sign, while others will choose something more abstract, elusive, imaginative, or just plain stupid.
That is to say, the in-game character "Patch86" has another more mundane name that his mummy and daddy called him, but "Patch86" is what he is known as to the space-faring community.
I find that this is a useful RP defence mechanism, to stop people called "Big Boobies" or "IRTEHPODDER" being too immersion breaking. ------
Originally by: CCP Prism X There's no such thing as playing too much EvE! You all obviously need more accounts! |
BIind Man
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Posted - 2007.09.24 20:18:00 -
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i dunno about names but the game, i just lost
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Amantus
Gallente Murientor Tribe
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Posted - 2007.09.24 20:25:00 -
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Originally by: BIind Man i dunno about names but the game, i just lost
Damn you; I just lost as well.
I made up my name. I wanted to put a bit of RP into my character name and I felt that the name I normally use for most online things wasn't RP at all. ------------
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Jhagiti Tyran
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Posted - 2007.09.24 20:26:00 -
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Originally by: Alz Shado Be original: name yourself after your favorite Star Wars characters.
I did sort of... My names a Mix of 2 Sith Lords names (Jhagiti Khan and Lord Tyranus)
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Gregory TwiLight
Inter Stellar Mining Syndicate Ethereal Spectrum Alliance
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Posted - 2007.09.24 20:42:00 -
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I am an old PNP Gamer and Gregory Twilight was one of my first characters. I was needing a name for this game and happen to come across some of my old gaming stuff and the Char sheet for Greg fell out of the binder so that is the name that I used.
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Jack Target
Eve University Ivy League
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Posted - 2007.09.24 20:43:00 -
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I like amusing caricature names.
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Sky Grunthor
Minmatar MKS Directorate
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Posted - 2007.09.24 20:50:00 -
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My name is actually a cary over from City of Heroes. its the name of my favorite charachter and I've used it in every mmo since then as my main.
In city of heroes it derived from the name of one of the 3 main characters in Elizabeth Haydons "Rhapsody" series.
Grunthor was the character and I chose that one because of his personality and his seeming conflicting scruples and appearance. Hell he's my favorite character from that book :)
Sky I chose because it was a game about heroes and it fit. Turned out I love the character so much that I've used the name ever since.
Ironically Sky is always a female character even though I am not and the character the name is based off of is certainly not. Well in any 3rd person perspective its better to look at female hind quarters all day than a male one. At least from my highly sexist perspective :p MKS Directorate Home
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Opinionated Git
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Posted - 2007.09.24 20:54:00 -
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Originally by: Alz Shado Be original: name yourself after your favorite Star Wars characters.
I cringe when I see characters named after fiction
But I also cringe when I see names that are just so obviously made up. Good example of that would be Ogru Jahad
Its like hey look I can string together some random RP sounding name by doing a little dance on the keybord. To prove my point:
MY NEW ROLEPLAYING NAME IS... Tripat Groguk
woot.
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Kazuo Ishiguro
House of Marbles Zzz
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Posted - 2007.09.24 20:59:00 -
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I went for an author rather than choosing a character My research services Spreadsheets: Top speed calculation - Halo Implant stats |
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firepup82
The Ankou The Reckoning.
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Posted - 2007.09.24 21:02:00 -
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I was drunk when a friend asked me to try eve and I really didnt expect to go past the two week trial. I tried to change my name but CCP wouldnt let me. Oh and fire because I'm a real life firefighter and 82 because I was in the 82nd Airborne Div. in the army.
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xBANDWAGONx
Caldari Purge Corp
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Posted - 2007.09.24 21:25:00 -
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Originally by: firepup82 I was drunk when a friend asked me to try eve and I really didnt expect to go past the two week trial. I tried to change my name but CCP wouldnt let me. Oh and fire because I'm a real life firefighter and 82 because I was in the 82nd Airborne Div. in the army.
you could have at least said fireDOG... and sounded a little less harmless
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente Lyrus Associates
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Posted - 2007.09.24 21:34:00 -
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SlyReaper was taken --------------------------------------------------------------------
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Nairoz Tyferion
Caldari The Graduates Brutally Clever Empire
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Posted - 2007.09.24 21:40:00 -
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Nairoz is a reshuffle of letters in my name, and my usual online presence.
Tyferion is a word I made up based on Tierfon - as in Tierfon Yellow Aces, from Star Wars.
At least it's a BIT obscure :P
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Abyssal Angel
Caldari Solar Wind Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate
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Posted - 2007.09.24 23:15:00 -
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I'm named after the Brilliant series by Julian May revolving around the Remilliard Family in the Galactic Millieu.
Another name I considered at the time was this characters alter ego; Abaddon, which could have been so fun as it was way before anyone in CCP even thought about a ship named that.
I'm Abyssal Angel of SWC and I'm proud. Fixed Yay! have a cookie - Deckard
Originally by: CCP PrismX My name is Prism X and I support this message. |
firepup82
The Ankou The Reckoning.
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Posted - 2007.09.24 23:20:00 -
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Edited by: firepup82 on 24/09/2007 23:20:13
Originally by: xBANDWAGONx
you could have at least said fireDOG... and sounded a little less harmless
lol True. But if I remember right I tried several combinations to no avail. Stupid beer
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MotoTsume
Gallente Clan Black Scorpion
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Posted - 2007.09.24 23:20:00 -
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My name is from a colectable card game and also a rpg named Legends of the Five Rings
Moto Tsume is the General of the Shadowlands Horde
allways like the name so long ago i adopted it as my online persona that has now travelled with me through many games and forums. ---------- www.mototsume.ca It's just a game........Or is it?
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Wendat Huron
Stellar Solutions
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Posted - 2007.09.25 00:44:00 -
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Mine's actually huron Huron, a tribute to Duran Duran or was it Sirhan Sirhan, I forget. Could just be a hat off to the defiant braves of the Huron tribe.
Screw achura and forget all about japanese names, those in 90% of the cases will sound cheesy and those that doesn't still get associated with cheesy cubicle wannabe samurai.
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Ava Luvlidai
Knights of Chaos Chaos Incarnate.
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Posted - 2007.09.25 01:08:00 -
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As I set out to be a pirate from the beginning I decided to both have a rather evil looking avatar in addition to a tongue-in-cheek name (as this is a game, not to be taken TOO seriously). I liked the name Ava and appended Luvlidai to the end of it, thus forming Ava Luvlidai, or 'Have a lovely day' - the nice thing to say after you've just popped and podded someone :)
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Idaeus
Earned In Blood Black Sun Cartel
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Posted - 2007.09.25 01:13:00 -
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My original characters were named after some deities in another game I played.
This one (and now my only one) I named when I was flipping through the Daemonhunters codex and was looking at the painting section.
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Lance Fighter
Amarr
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Posted - 2007.09.25 01:26:00 -
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Umm.. I was playing hw2 one day... and I came across the Lance Fighter unit... and I'm like... I wanna fly one of those... and hence, my name.
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Polly Prissypantz
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Posted - 2007.09.25 02:19:00 -
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Originally by: xBANDWAGONx I choose my name to poke fun at all the people the put x's in their name... look around these boards and you''ll see tons of them. So I decided to hop on the cool kids bandwagon
Spot on. You're my new hero.
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Yakumo Smith
Gallente The Scope
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Posted - 2007.09.25 06:55:00 -
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I've been using "Yakumo" in some form or other since I started using thje internet.
It's followed me in all games I play.
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Callus Tacticus
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Posted - 2007.09.25 07:13:00 -
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Callus Tacticus...
The infamous general. What? Never heard of him... But he has famous quotes... Just read my bio!!!
Nah, he is from Terry Pratchetts world... I love his quotes. I hope Terry Pratchett does a book on him.
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Umit Davala
Corpus PCG The State
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Posted - 2007.09.25 07:24:00 -
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'I'm' named after a Turkish footballer. I thought the name sounded 'spacey'. Apologies to any Turks if i've just spoiled your immersion.
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Arimus Darkhart
Caldari
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Posted - 2007.09.25 07:28:00 -
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Mine is partly a hangover from my student days and playing AD&D, Call of Cthulu, and Avatar/Farside (MERC based mud)...
Darkhart was just a suffix I tagged on almost at random as someone else has got just Arimus...
-- Users are like a virus - each causing a thousand tiny crises until the host finally dies. |
Aziz Hekato
Vitai Lampada
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Posted - 2007.09.25 07:38:00 -
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Originally by: Oddveig Jarl Greetings
I am in the process of re-inventing my main....this time with serious consideration to the RP implications of my choices.
In particular,the choosing of a name.
The intent of this thread is not to endlessly speculate over the Earth/Eve timeline....as this has been extensivly covered in previous threads.(With little consensus I have observed)
The intent is to simply share WHY? you choose the name you did.(Emphasis on RP or if your just plain fussy about these things like I am
I am currently considering rolling a Caldari/Civire character. This could change....and my curiosity is not limited to one race...etc.
Looking forward to your imput
Thank You Oddveig Jarl
Well, my nickname is Aziz in RL so I just picked that one. I got my surname by playing with words and bending them for a couple of minutes.
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Kalazar
Amarr Veto Corp
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Posted - 2007.09.25 07:44:00 -
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Well, Kal's full (RP) name is Kalazar Zachan.
Kalazar (or Kala-azar) for those of you who don't know is another term for Leishmaniasis, also known as "black fever", a disease caused by Protozoan parasites considering he's a these days, it's actually fairly fitting ^^
Kal's family name, Zachan, came at a later stage than the creation of the character, and I believe is from a name generator (possibly the Neverwinter Nights one (don't hurt me, please)). I was flicking through and suddenly thought "that goes well with Kalazar". ----------------------------------------------
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Countess Markievicz
Gallente 0-Deflex
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Posted - 2007.09.25 07:55:00 -
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My characters name is a famous one in Irish history.
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sherado took
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Posted - 2007.09.25 07:59:00 -
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Edited by: sherado took on 25/09/2007 07:59:10 doh posted with alt
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