the problem with that is you accelerate the situation where the only unused username is "sandy mcballbag".

this is why i hated making alts on WoW, with 10 character slots per account per server people had level 1 characters to reserve names. the hardest part of making a new character was finding a name that wasn't taken and wasn't jibberish.

Name changes yes, but corporation history has to stay.





CCP you could make a killing on allowing name changes, many of us want to pay you for a virtual service that eventually could be manned by 1-2 devs after the initial rush so why you no offer?.

inb4 'plex for depoll'

I've always wondered how the player base would feel about this.

I'm not too keen on the idea of a name change personally, unless there was a one click ability to see all past names and aliases.

Even then, I still have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand a name change might be useful for people who've bought a character on the Character Bazaar and love the skill set but not the name, on the other hand your name is your identity and reputation in EVE and the prospect of being able to wipe the slate clean if you do something wrong isn't my particular cup of tea.

I'll be interested to see how this thread develops though, some valid points made already

All no this is sandbox not cleaning the carpet when you doing something wrong. No and no. You want it try to play world of warcraft the do this thing for you. In eve all action comes always back to you. Use your brain before you do something wrong or mess up your names.

Even then, I still have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand a name change might be useful for people who've bought a character on the Character Bazaar and love the skill set but not the name, on the other hand your name is your identity and reputation in EVE and the prospect of being able to wipe the slate clean if you do something wrong isn't my particular cup of tea.

I just want to point out that arguing against name changes is pointless. I heard every single one of these arguments to the "T" on the WoW forums before they did paid name changes a few years back.

It will be a service. If you don't like it, don't use it. Plain and simple.

I've always wondered how the player base would feel about this.

I'm not too keen on the idea of a name change personally, unless there was a one click ability to see all past names and aliases.

Even then, I still have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand a name change might be useful for people who've bought a character on the Character Bazaar and love the skill set but not the name, on the other hand your name is your identity and reputation in EVE and the prospect of being able to wipe the slate clean if you do something wrong isn't my particular cup of tea.

I'll be interested to see how this thread develops though, some valid points made already

Character reputation stopped mattering in WoW years ago when they introduced other systems that reduced accountability for your actions to zero (eg. LFG). Before that there were public blacklists on realms for known idiots, those people were actively shunned by the vast majority of the server population, sort of like known corp thieves and the likes in EVE. Coincidentally the atmosphere on realms in general and in dungeon groups in particular was a lot better back then...

I like to think that accountability is one of the things that sets EVE's leveling system apart, if you soil your reputation in some way it has big implications, unlike in WoW where you can just max out a new character in a month or so (or just transfer to a realm where nobody knows you...).

Because you not using it means you're not affected by it, right?...

I've always wondered how the player base would feel about this.

Heres an idea,


Make the 2 Functions of Character name change and removing corp history A Skills based ability trainable under the corp management section.

As it is, there is very little usage of those skills. By all means, make the requirements high but let the players have the ability to perform this action. As for changing a characters name, it could be done as "hacking" where the player with corp management skills has the ability to "hack" some concord record database, but the ability has a long cooldown or some other consequence such as a massive hit on sec status for the hacker. essentially the corp management skilled guy can sell his services for whatever the market settles on.

Changing your Corp list could be done in a similar way, but on a single entry per hack basis. someone with 20 corps to be removed can get one done at a time for a full 2.0 drop in the hackers standings.

at the same time this whole idea could be expanded on to include other areas to hack, such as the players standings with other entities, maybe even player corp entities. but at a severe cost?

Not sure if your times have gotten switched up or what but name changes in WoW was out almost a whole year before LFG and all the other things you are talking about. Just sayin'.

Skill queue and reputation are 2 totally different things. As far as reputation goes, it is no different than WoW even with a character transfer. There are forums where people will give a heads up about specific players and such. Yes, it was cross realm. If you don't know how to do your research then It's not my problem.

As far as reputation goes, it is no different than WoW even with a character transfer. There are forums where people will give a heads up about specific players and such. Yes, it was cross realm. If you don't know how to do your research then It's not my problem.

Take your own advice. How many times it need be said you can circumvent consequences with alts. PLEXes made this even easier. There's like one person I know who hasn't wussed out of bad rep (altough in his case, magnificient bastard rep), that is Istvaan Shogaatsu.
And it has been said that an intergral part of this name change things would be the introduction of an "identity history" tab.

Perhaps it could be a one-off offering specifically FOR character trades then?