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Perseo Aidheron The Scope Gallente Federation 0	Posted - 2012.04.24 16:38:00 - [1] - Quote Is there such thing here in eve can i change my char name in any way.
Liam Mirren 471	Posted - 2012.04.24 16:40:00 - [2] - Quote Only if you have a capitalisation issue and your char is very young or if someone petitions your name for breaking the Eula and the GM agrees. Other than that not happening, in EVE you live with the choices you make. Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude. My guides: http://mirren.freeforums.org
Tau Cabalander Retirement Retreat Working Stiffs 630	Posted - 2012.04.24 17:18:00 - [3] - Quote Perseo Aidheron wrote: Is there such thing here in eve can i change my char name in any way. Do you think I'd have a last name of Cabalander if I could change my name? This was a character I expected to biomass after the trial... 3 years ago.
J'Poll Pioneer's of the Galantic Wars Side Effect. 169	Posted - 2012.04.24 18:46:00 - [4] - Quote EVE actually expect people to think ahead before they do something, this includes picking your character name. It's not allowed due to that in EVE you have to face consequences of your actions: Say Pilot named "A" pisses of a lot of people and would be able to change his name to "B" then all the upset people won't know that "B" is actually "A". So that's why names are fixed, if "A" pisses off many people he has to learn to live with a lot of gankers, mercs, wardecs on him at all times. It's EVE, you deal with it or you don't. Hope you're the first. Inject your skillbook before you leave the station. Neo didnGÇÖt learn Kung-Fu by having it sit in his usb drive.-á If it moves, shoot it. If it doesn't move, poke it with your gun and then shoot it. We are not running, we are advancing in the opposite direction
Veruca Salt 0	Posted - 2012.05.15 08:14:00 - [5] - Quote Name change service should be avilable in a nine year old game. It's pretty standard feature for 2-3 year old mmo's these days. Afraid that you'd have a badass change his name and disappear? Well, it happens in real life, with plastic surgery, which we also have access. shrug Maybe you'll be able to hunt him down when he got "formerly known as" tab, if you cry hard enough. Just put a reasonable limits and prices, and we're good to go.
Xtrah NorCorp Enterprise No Holes Barred 1	Posted - 2012.05.15 08:18:00 - [6] - Quote J'Poll wrote: EVE actually expect people to think ahead before they do something, this includes picking your character name. It's not allowed due to that in EVE you have to face consequences of your actions: Say Pilot named "A" pisses of a lot of people and would be able to change his name to "B" then all the upset people won't know that "B" is actually "A". So that's why names are fixed, if "A" pisses off many people he has to learn to live with a lot of gankers, mercs, wardecs on him at all times. It's EVE, you deal with it or you don't. Hope you're the first. This^ The answer to this thread
Sin Pew SWARTA Mostly Clueless 29	Posted - 2012.05.15 09:24:00 - [7] - Quote Xtrah wrote: J'Poll wrote: EVE actually expect people to think ahead before they do something, this includes picking your character name. It's not allowed due to that in EVE you have to face consequences of your actions: Say Pilot named "A" pisses of a lot of people and would be able to change his name to "B" then all the upset people won't know that "B" is actually "A". So that's why names are fixed, if "A" pisses off many people he has to learn to live with a lot of gankers, mercs, wardecs on him at all times. It's EVE, you deal with it or you don't. Hope you're the first. This^ The answer to this thread Technically, in a proper database, a character (a record) is identified through a unique identifier, the name is just an element of the record and a table can be made to store the names that have been associated to a unique identifier so that's a moot point. But I find it better that names can't be changed, helps spotting those who put little to no effort nor care in the creation of their toons and I find it often reflects well on the efforts and care the players behind are willing to put into the game. But that's merely a personnal viewpoint and Tau, I don't see anything wrong with your name ;) [20:03:08] Sin Pew > I regret the auto zoom when my ship blows, I'd llike to see the fireworks at least if I'm going to blow
Telegram Sam The Drones Club 288	Posted - 2012.05.15 21:22:00 - [8] - Quote J'Poll wrote: EVE actually expect people to think ahead before they do something, this includes picking your character name. It's not allowed due to that in EVE you have to face consequences of your actions: Say Pilot named "A" pisses of a lot of people and would be able to change his name to "B" then all the upset people won't know that "B" is actually "A". So that's why names are fixed, if "A" pisses off many people he has to learn to live with a lot of gankers, mercs, wardecs on him at all times. It's EVE, you deal with it or you don't. Hope you're the first. I believe I saw CCP also explain it this way a few years ago. No new "aliases" to become anonymous. But actually, couldn't the game let you change your name, but 'tag' you forever with the old name? You'd still stay in people's contacts, and a search of your old name would still find you. And could have a list of former names show up like your employment history shows.
Zoe Athame Blue Republic RvB - BLUE Republic 7	Posted - 2012.05.17 08:44:00 - [9] - Quote Telegram Sam wrote: J'Poll wrote: EVE actually expect people to think ahead before they do something, this includes picking your character name. It's not allowed due to that in EVE you have to face consequences of your actions: Say Pilot named "A" pisses of a lot of people and would be able to change his name to "B" then all the upset people won't know that "B" is actually "A". So that's why names are fixed, if "A" pisses off many people he has to learn to live with a lot of gankers, mercs, wardecs on him at all times. It's EVE, you deal with it or you don't. Hope you're the first. I believe I saw CCP also explain it this way a few years ago. No new "aliases" to become anonymous. But actually, couldn't the game let you change your name, but 'tag' you forever with the old name? You'd still stay in people's contacts, and a search of your old name would still find you. And could have a list of former names show up like your employment history shows. And if a new character takes your old name? Then there are two people running around with the same name. You would have to have let one pilot reserve multiple names? Tau Cabalander wrote: Perseo Aidheron wrote: Is there such thing here in eve can i change my char name in any way. Do you think I'd have a last name of Cabalander if I could change my name? This was a character I expected to biomass after the trial... 3 years ago. It it makes you feel any better I always read your name as "Tau Commander" until you posted this ^^
Toshiro GreyHawk 181	Posted - 2012.05.17 09:18:00 - [10] - Quote Yeah, you're not really going to get a lot of sympathy here on this subject. It's bad enough - that people can have not merely multiple characters per account but multiple accounts - and thus hide their identity that way - but to allow them to take some character they've put a lot of work into - and change their name as well - no, it's bad enough as it is. If you think you've got a case - then you could of course simply petition them and see if they said no. However ... they get a lot of petitions ... and ... if they're dealing with yours - that means they're not dealing with someone elses who may have a more serious problem. Now ... don't feel all alone in screwing up a character name. I've screwed up three of them. Fortunately for me, I realized the mistake I'd made in naming the character shortly after creating it - and hadn't put to much time/money/effort into it - so I just bio massed them - that is - deleted the character. Now - on bio massing a character ... IF ... you try biomassing a character with a bad security rating - just to get rid of the bad reputation they've accumulated or so you don't have to grind their security status back up - you can be banned for that. If you just bio mass a new character with no change to their security status though - you won't have a problem. In addition to bio massing some characters with unfortunate name selections - I've also created a character in one region of space because I wanted to check something out over there - and was to lazy to fly someone over there. I created a character with a name something like "BornToBeBioMassed" - checked out what I wanted - and then deleted that character. Here - it helped that the character was like - really ugly. I mean she looked like a cartoon witch. My problem with creating characters ... is that I like doing it for some reason ... and have tended to accumulate more than I need ... on occasion ... I've always had a reason to create them ... but sometimes that reason was taken care of by their creation and then ... I didn't really have a job for them after that. shrug Same thing with trial accounts. I've got at least one account now that I created as a trial ... but then really liked the character I'd created ... so I kept the account. I've made use of it but i really hadn't planned on creating another account there .... Of course ... you can also move those characters to other accounts and a lot of people have done that, consolidating accounts. If I hadn't found a use for that account ... that's probably what I would have done. Normally - you don't want to be creating accounts and THEN finding a use for them. It's much better to have a need - and then fill it - rather than create an account and then hope you find a use for it. shrug .

J'Poll Pioneer's of the Galantic Wars Side Effect. 188	Posted - 2012.05.17 10:25:00 - [11] - Quote Zoe Athame wrote: Telegram Sam wrote: J'Poll wrote: EVE actually expect people to think ahead before they do something, this includes picking your character name. It's not allowed due to that in EVE you have to face consequences of your actions: Say Pilot named "A" pisses of a lot of people and would be able to change his name to "B" then all the upset people won't know that "B" is actually "A". So that's why names are fixed, if "A" pisses off many people he has to learn to live with a lot of gankers, mercs, wardecs on him at all times. It's EVE, you deal with it or you don't. Hope you're the first. I believe I saw CCP also explain it this way a few years ago. No new "aliases" to become anonymous. But actually, couldn't the game let you change your name, but 'tag' you forever with the old name? You'd still stay in people's contacts, and a search of your old name would still find you. And could have a list of former names show up like your employment history shows. And if a new character takes your old name? Then there are two people running around with the same name. You would have to have let one pilot reserve multiple names? That only works if you biomass a character. As long as someone (even after 4 years of inactivity) still owns the character on a non-active account, you can't use that same name. Also when biomassed and remade a new character with same name the employment history is cleaned out, so people will notice that it's a totally new character. Inject your skillbook before you leave the station. Neo didnGÇÖt learn Kung-Fu by having it sit in his usb drive.-á If it moves, shoot it. If it doesn't move, poke it with your gun and then shoot it. We are not running, we are advancing in the opposite direction
J'Poll Pioneer's of the Galantic Wars Side Effect. 188	Posted - 2012.05.17 10:29:00 - [12] - Quote Telegram Sam wrote: J'Poll wrote: EVE actually expect people to think ahead before they do something, this includes picking your character name. It's not allowed due to that in EVE you have to face consequences of your actions: Say Pilot named "A" pisses of a lot of people and would be able to change his name to "B" then all the upset people won't know that "B" is actually "A". So that's why names are fixed, if "A" pisses off many people he has to learn to live with a lot of gankers, mercs, wardecs on him at all times. It's EVE, you deal with it or you don't. Hope you're the first. I believe I saw CCP also explain it this way a few years ago. No new "aliases" to become anonymous. But actually, couldn't the game let you change your name, but 'tag' you forever with the old name? You'd still stay in people's contacts, and a search of your old name would still find you. And could have a list of former names show up like your employment history shows. Yeah, and any idea how long such a database would be after jsut couple of months. Over 300.000 subscriptions to EVE * 3 characters on each account = close to a million characters in total possible. Say everybody changes their name at least once in 3 months, means each 3 months the database entry grows with a million entries. Good luck keeping that to work, specially if some people by accident picked a name that someone else used in the past. Why just not spent about 3 minutes longer on your character creation and actually pick a name you like and agree with, YOU made the mistake of picking a stupid name, so you have to live with it. Why make it that your mistake is CCP's problem. If you can't even pick a normal name or deal with it that you picked something you're not happy with, EVE is not for you. Go back to WoW. Inject your skillbook before you leave the station. Neo didnGÇÖt learn Kung-Fu by having it sit in his usb drive.-á If it moves, shoot it. If it doesn't move, poke it with your gun and then shoot it. We are not running, we are advancing in the opposite direction
Sebastian Hoch Black Lance RAZOR Alliance 0	Posted - 2012.06.04 02:20:00 - [13] - Quote To be real the ability to lose your identity and shake off past crimes already exists by just selling your toon and buying another. Look at RMFHorus/A Puppetmaster. I think a lot of people start eve without any idea of what kind of game it is and don't even take it seriously. I know I fell into that trap. I installed Eve to test my new graphics card lol. CCP should allow name changes for a $20 fee and keep old names affiliated with the account so its not a mechanism to be anonymous but truly a way for people who want a new name. The charge of real money would compensate CCP for coding the functionality and would keep name changes down to ppl that really wanted to make them. I'd be fine with setting restrictions on it. Such as you have to be at least one year old and can only change your name once per year/two years whatever. Like a remap. Seb
Oraac Ensor School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State 9	Posted - 2012.06.04 03:04:00 - [14] - Quote Tau Cabalander wrote: Do you think I'd have a last name of Cabalander if I could change my name? What's wrong with it? I just Googled it out of curiosity and found that it seems to be unique to your EVE character and doesn't exist outside the game, so there are presumably no unfortunate connotations. Edit: CCP should not sell any kind of name change service. Players should not be able to buy the ability to hide their previous misbehaviour.
Sebastian Hoch Black Lance RAZOR Alliance 0	Posted - 2012.06.05 10:53:00 - [15] - Quote Oraac Ensor wrote: [quote=Tau Cabalander] Edit: CCP should not sell any kind of name change service. Players should not be able to buy the ability to hide their previous misbehaviour. Lol they already can. Anyone can swap out for a new identity on the character bazaar and it happens all the time today. Did you even read my post? Seb
Luis Graca 35	Posted - 2012.06.05 11:34:00 - [16] - Quote I believe there was a time you could actually do that for $20 but not anymore CCP SUCKS
Emaleena Rogers No Point of Dispute Point of Dispute 0	Posted - 2012.06.08 21:45:00 - [17] - Quote Dont agree with name changes. If we take a game such as WoW for example, where you can change pretty much every aspect of a character save the class, it makes things worse. If the person wants to disappear he or she can. He or she can change their faction/race/name/gender/server/transfer to another account/ etc, with little drawback other than financial loss. In EvE it's riskier. You do something bad? Your going to live with it.
Tessa Scyne Shadowknight Securities 1	Posted - 2012.06.09 00:54:00 - [18] - Quote Veruca Salt wrote: Name change service should be avilable in a nine year old game. It's pretty standard feature for 2-3 year old mmo's these days. Afraid that you'd have a badass change his name and disappear? Well, it happens in real life, with plastic surgery, which we also have access. shrug Maybe you'll be able to hunt him down when he got "formerly known as" tab, if you cry hard enough. Just put a reasonable limits and prices, and we're good to go. Yes, this is true, but likewise if that persion vanishes they start a new life. They cant use thier old car or line of credit. They cant live in the same town. They get a new face and a new life. They get a new car and a new house. If you want to change your name to start a new life, you have to biomass and start over. If you want your assets, find a holding trust or contract them to yourself. Skills? Well there is a price to everything and that's your bill.
Iria Ahrens Freelance Economics Astrological resources Tactical Narcotics Team 47	Posted - 2012.06.09 11:17:00 - [19] - Quote Veruca Salt wrote: Name change service should be avilable in a nine year old game. It's pretty standard feature for 2-3 year old mmo's these days. Afraid that you'd have a badass change his name and disappear? Well, it happens in real life, with plastic surgery, which we also have access. shrug Maybe you'll be able to hunt him down when he got "formerly known as" tab, if you cry hard enough. Just put a reasonable limits and prices, and we're good to go. Yea, but in every other game your reputation doesn't matter. Here your reputation does matter, ergo, name changes are out. There are two kinds of player. -áThe kind that adapts to the game, and the kind that expect the game to adapt to them. -áDo don't a number 2 on EvE. -áThank you.
Iria Ahrens Freelance Economics Astrological resources Tactical Narcotics Team 47	Posted - 2012.06.09 11:19:00 - [20] - Quote Sebastian Hoch wrote: Oraac Ensor wrote: [quote=Tau Cabalander] Edit: CCP should not sell any kind of name change service. Players should not be able to buy the ability to hide their previous misbehaviour. Lol they already can. Anyone can swap out for a new identity on the character bazaar and it happens all the time today. Did you even read my post? Seb You can buy a new identity, or sell yours. BUT whomever buys your name is stuck with the reputation the previous player built. This is how it should be. Personally, I think character selling should be nixed. I've a friend that has switched characters 6 times. Really pisses me off when I try to convo him and find some guy I don't know on the other end. There are two kinds of player. -áThe kind that adapts to the game, and the kind that expect the game to adapt to them. -áDo don't a number 2 on EvE. -áThank you.

Mallak Azaria 189	Posted - 2012.06.09 11:20:00 - [21] - Quote Veruca Salt wrote: Name change service should be avilable in a nine year old game. It's pretty standard feature for 2-3 year old mmo's these days. Afraid that you'd have a badass change his name and disappear? Well, it happens in real life, with plastic surgery, which we also have access. shrug Maybe you'll be able to hunt him down when he got "formerly known as" tab, if you cry hard enough. Just put a reasonable limits and prices, and we're good to go. 1. EVE is not one of those games. 2. This just in! Comparing a fictional computer game with real life is the correct way to make a valid point. 3. EVE is not one of those games.
Jame Jarl Retief Deep Core Mining Inc. Caldari State 153	Posted - 2012.06.09 13:44:00 - [22] - Quote J'Poll wrote: EVE actually expect people to think ahead before they do something, this includes picking your character name. It's not allowed due to that in EVE you have to face consequences of your actions: Say Pilot named "A" pisses of a lot of people and would be able to change his name to "B" then all the upset people won't know that "B" is actually "A". So that's why names are fixed, if "A" pisses off many people he has to learn to live with a lot of gankers, mercs, wardecs on him at all times. Then player "A" goes and sells his character, legally and with CCP support, on character Bazaar. Then player "A" buys a whole new character, with a whole new appearance and name, again legally with CCP support. And character "A" faces the consequences of his actions how, exactly? There's no logical reason why you can't change name, appearance or anything else as a paid service. Because it already exists as a bundled paid service.
J'Poll Pioneer's of the Galantic Wars Ethereal Dawn 250	Posted - 2012.06.09 13:55:00 - [23] - Quote Iria Ahrens wrote: Sebastian Hoch wrote: Oraac Ensor wrote: [quote=Tau Cabalander] Edit: CCP should not sell any kind of name change service. Players should not be able to buy the ability to hide their previous misbehaviour. Lol they already can. Anyone can swap out for a new identity on the character bazaar and it happens all the time today. Did you even read my post? Seb You can buy a new identity, or sell yours. BUT whomever buys your name is stuck with the reputation the previous player built. This is how it should be. Personally, I think character selling should be nixed. I've a friend that has switched characters 6 times. Really pisses me off when I try to convo him and find some guy I don't know on the other end. That is not 100% true, as any buy or sell of character MUST be announced on the forums. So any decent person in EVE will notice the character has been sold. Inject your skillbook before you leave the station. Neo didnGÇÖt learn Kung-Fu by having it sit in his usb drive.-á If it moves, shoot it. If it doesn't move, poke it with your gun and then shoot it. We are not running, we are advancing in the opposite direction
J'Poll Pioneer's of the Galantic Wars Ethereal Dawn 250	Posted - 2012.06.09 14:28:00 - [24] - Quote Jame Jarl Retief wrote: J'Poll wrote: EVE actually expect people to think ahead before they do something, this includes picking your character name. It's not allowed due to that in EVE you have to face consequences of your actions: Say Pilot named "A" pisses of a lot of people and would be able to change his name to "B" then all the upset people won't know that "B" is actually "A". So that's why names are fixed, if "A" pisses off many people he has to learn to live with a lot of gankers, mercs, wardecs on him at all times. Then player "A" goes and sells his character, legally and with CCP support, on character Bazaar. Then player "A" buys a whole new character, with a whole new appearance and name, again legally with CCP support. And character "A" faces the consequences of his actions how, exactly? There's no logical reason why you can't change name, appearance or anything else as a paid service. Because it already exists as a bundled paid service. As my post above, Character "A" MUST post his sell on the forum. So any person in EVE can see that it changed hands. Inject your skillbook before you leave the station. Neo didnGÇÖt learn Kung-Fu by having it sit in his usb drive.-á If it moves, shoot it. If it doesn't move, poke it with your gun and then shoot it. We are not running, we are advancing in the opposite direction
Iria Ahrens Freelance Economics Astrological resources Tactical Narcotics Team 48	Posted - 2012.06.10 07:44:00 - [25] - Quote Unfortunately, that is after the fact. As the majority of the player base, or at least a signifant portion doesn't buy/sell characters and so therefore does not view that forum and see the announcements. Announcements like that should not be buried in a forum, it should be added to the info window of a character, with some kind of alert going to anyone that has that character on their watch list. It is after all, an out-of-game change that affects all subsequent player interaction with that character. There are two kinds of player. -áThe kind that adapts to the game, and the kind that expect the game to adapt to them. -áDo don't a number 2 on EvE. -áThank you.
Mallak Azaria 192	Posted - 2012.06.10 12:39:00 - [26] - Quote Iria Ahrens wrote: Unfortunately, that is after the fact. As the majority of the player base, or at least a signifant portion doesn't buy/sell characters and so therefore does not view that forum and see the announcements. Announcements like that should not be buried in a forum, it should be added to the info window of a character, with some kind of alert going to anyone that has that character on their watch list. It is after all, an out-of-game change that affects all subsequent player interaction with that character. Wouldn't it be great if they had a system where posts containing important information would stay on the first page at the top? They could call it a Sticky Thread.
The Leb Auduin Republic University Minmatar Republic 0	Posted - 2012.08.14 00:36:00 - [27] - Quote You're all assuming that people change their names only when they've done something wrong. What if I just started playing the game and I don't know the popular naming conventions? I choose a "hacker" handle like 3M0T10N and start playing the game, then realize that nobody else uses this style. Now I want to change my name and I can't. Even though I've only been playing for one day I'm stuck with the name I chose. >>Just recreate, you're only losing one day of time. That's logical but it's not a good business practice. I can think of at least one popular mmo that offers a paid name change service, and I can tell you from experience it doesn't get used only when people "do something bad and want to disappear."

ISD Athechu ISD STAR 42	Posted - 2012.08.14 00:45:00 - [28] - Quote The OP got their answer and this thread is old no need to bump old threads please :) Locked. ISD Athechu Commander ISD STAR (Support Training and Resources) EVE New Citizens Q&A Resources



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