Originally by: Cheeba Don

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Put the pitchforks down folks, Franken already lost all his space.

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Originally by: Agent Known

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Is it seriously THAT big of a deal...?

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Originally by: Agent Known

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Originally by: Cendaliaa

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Originally by: Agent Known

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Is it seriously THAT big of a deal...?

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you new to the game or just acting as a troll?
like every gm said to any alliance that wanted to change their name "disband" and create a new alliance, so what happens when you disband an alliance and have sov?

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I'm actually new to the game, but whatever...

From what I've read BoB DID lose sov when the alliance was disbanded and had to start over. Their name was taken so it was petitioned, but it took until now to actually get it changed. So...I don't think this is favoritism or any of that sort, but I'm not 100% sure until CCP gives examples of doing this for other alliances.

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Originally by: Rodj Blake

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Originally by: Tobruk

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Only character names that are deemed as inappropriate are eligible for a possible name change. Names will not be changed for any other reason.

it took me 1.2 seconds to read the above...

If after 2 month of deliberation you still concluded that it was OK to rename kenzoku... the Grimmi, you are ****ing hopeless

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Bolded the important part for you.

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Originally by: Laura Rampart

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I'm sure it wasn't favoritism from CCP letting you goons go away with stealing the whole alliance with very, very lame game mechanics which shouldn't have been there to start with.

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Originally by: Xrak

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More tears please, they taste positively delicious.

It's only a name change, really just get over it.

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Originally by: northwesten

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people who crying over a name change! Stop playing EVE and move on or STFU at least. Its a freaking name! Like I said before it's just a name boo hoo

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Originally by: northwesten

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Originally by: Cendaliaa

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Originally by: northwesten

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people who crying over a name change! Stop playing EVE and move on or STFU at least. Its a freaking name! Like I said before it's just a name boo hoo

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oh look another one who has no clue whats it about, what about trying to read the posts. trust me it wont hurt you...much

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I not clueless I just think you all throwing a toy out for over a name. I don't care about the name! It doesn't EFFECT the game play. So I say again crying over a bloody name!

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Originally by: Auroral Borealis

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This name change probably stems from the original petition that ex-BoB filed concerning the possible hacking of Haargoth's (or whatever his name was) account. In the mean time BoB took on the ticker and name of an alt alliance as an interim measure due to the complexity of the petition. No doubt CCP investigated the allegations. This isn't favoritism in the slightest, it's a simple result of that petition. No rules were broken, because the name "Band of Brothers Reloaded." and "KenGoKu" were just switched when the petition was finished... If the petition could have been handled instantly, perhaps they would have been able to get their BoB reloaded ticker right away. Who knows.

This is not a big deal. AT all. I'm as glad as anyone else that BoB/Kengoku are getting hammered in delve/querious, but this is just stupid nonsense. Don't worry though - maybe if everyone spams more "OMG CCP DEV HAX BOB T20" it'll turn into a scandal through sheer repitition.

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Originally by: Robin Plunder

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11.C (graph 2) the EULA:

C. User Content
User Content that you cause to be communicated to the System may not (i) violate any statute, rule, regulation or law; (ii) infringe or violate the intellectual property, proprietary, privacy or publicity rights of any third party

Band of Brothers is a TRADEMARKED name. See United States Trademark Serial Number 78711617 Registration Number 3331480.

The petition should not have been granted. As soon as I am at a computer that can login to Eve I will be petitioning the name for violation of intellectual property rights and publicity rights.

Given that the alliance has become a laughingstock for its cozy relationship with the devs, it is obvious that these teacher's pets injure the trademark owner's publicity rights.

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Originally by: Vincent Gaines

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Originally by: Juiblex Jabell

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Yes GS was greifing BoB no doubt but BoB took the easy way out and instead of making BoBr which was available they joined an existing alliance and petitioned to have the name changed with the intention of circumventing fees and sov issues and CCP allowed it.

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So doing what damage control you can do at the time is taking the easy way out?

Wait, actually explain to me where having your alliance disbanded in the middle of the TZ night by a rogue director, done in coordination with a huge enemy- yes, all perfectly fine. But what is easy? You mean doing whatever to scrounge up the ruins? To do whatever possible while waiting on a GM petition?

Then waiting for 2 months for a response, sitting in that dmg control alliance to see if you can get "Band of Brothers" back, or be able to at least give some name of a current alliance- because they can't just "reform" an alliance- Goonswarm has war dec'd all BoB related corps to PREVENT them from forming an alliance.

I agree BoBr should pay the 1bn fee. But GS is just mad over the fact that this one little thing has prevented them from the grief play against BoB.

There's more to the picture, more complexity, than is given credit.

What BoBr is able to do given the situation and what can be done.

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If you want to go by what's happened before, then they should get the original name back, like CoW.

If you want to go by what's "justice" in terms of fairness, BoBr pays 1bn, and from now on sov holding alliances can change thier name without reforming.

either way is fine, but either way will have goons crying more threadnaughts.

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