A LOT of the really good names in the game, are taken by characters who don't even play.

Just a few examples are:
Han Solo
Carl Sagan,
Neill Degrass Tyson
Luke Skywalker
etc etc.......

Do you have any examples of good names being taken? Just come up with something new and original instead. It shouldn't be that hardGǪ

Man, when I was 15, I too wanted to be Han Solo.

I'm 45 and I still do! Ask my wife though, and she'll tell you I'm still 13.

A LOT of the really good names in the game, are taken by characters who don't even play.

Do you have any examples of good names being taken? Just come up with something new and original instead. It shouldn't be that hardGǪ

Get an imagination, it will be useful in RL too.

You have to remember that Han Solo is 71, thoughGǪ

If you want to get all technical, Han Solo is likely dead since it was "a long time ago".

On topic:
Resetting the names would just remove all of the value in getting those. If you want the best ones that are inactive, contact the owners and be prepared to pay a fortune (trillions in isk, RL cash not allowed but would be in the thousands range). Or just find a gullible one to give you something cheap.

Seriously come up with something better

I mean Carl Sagan and Neill Degrass Tyson? How Reddit could you even be

I would also prefer to see a bit more thought put into character names. After all, who names their kid Psychotic *insert random noun here*. That's probably the most prevalent immersion breaking name, though most common is a name with a random string of numbers attached.

Yet most of the responses i see, are to do with his examples, THEY ARE JUST EXAMPLES PEOPLE!!!

This being said, i don't think you're the first one to come up with this actually..

And to OP, i don't agree that inactive player names should be free to take, anyone should have the chance to reactivate and start with same character name, all names have their history.

Some names are worth hundreds of billions of isk though. Yours perhaps included.

No this topic does not belong in F&I it belongs here

No, it belongs in Features & Ideas Discussion, and that's where it's being moved to.

This is also something that you could being up with the CSM on the appropriate forum if you feel strongly enough about it.

I'm kinda happy these names are already taken, that way I don't have to deal with kids running around in my spaceship making "swoosh" sounds or telling me that those aren't the droids I'm looking for. That sort of behaviour upsets the Fedos, and they stink the ship up even more.

A LOT of the really good names in the game, are taken by characters who don't even play.

Just a few examples are:
Han Solo
Carl Sagan,
Neill Degrass Tyson
Luke Skywalker
etc etc.......


I know CCP is hopeful of them ever coming back, but this is not a reason for them to be able to clog up the good names.

So i suggest CCP would allow for a taken name to be changed into *faction name here* Citizen *number here*
Caldari Citizen 12345678 for example.
That way, the ACTIVE players can at least enjoy the cool names.

No this topic does not belong in F&I it belongs here, so as many people can +1 it as possible and it is not an idea, but rather a petition.


Now the idea follows.
If you want to have a name cleared and you have figured out that this character just doesn't play anymore ( for at least 3 years ), petition CCP to change that characters name and then you can make a new char with that name.

I agree, but only if they carry it on to corp and alliance names as well.

A LOT of the really good names in the game, are taken by characters who don't even play.

Just a few examples are:
Han Solo
Carl Sagan,
Neill Degrass Tyson
Luke Skywalker
etc etc.......

The only names I would agree to being "released" (so to speak) are those from trial accounts that never (EVER) subscribed (be it by RL monies or activating a PLEX). If they subbed even one month, that character's here for the duration.

I'm 45 and I still do! Ask my wife though, and she'll tell you I'm still 13.

Not worth the effort. CCP has better things to work on.

A LOT of the really good names in the game, are taken by characters who don't even play.

Just a few examples are:
Han Solo
Carl Sagan,
Neill Degrass Tyson
Luke Skywalker
etc etc.......


I know CCP is hopeful of them ever coming back, but this is not a reason for them to be able to clog up the good names.

So i suggest CCP would allow for a taken name to be changed into *faction name here* Citizen *number here*
Caldari Citizen 12345678 for example.
That way, the ACTIVE players can at least enjoy the cool names.

No this topic does not belong in F&I it belongs here, so as many people can +1 it as possible and it is not an idea, but rather a petition.


Now the idea follows.
If you want to have a name cleared and you have figured out that this character just doesn't play anymore ( for at least 3 years ), petition CCP to change that characters name and then you can make a new char with that name.

Umm you know that you can change ONE letter in the name, or add an initial and have it sound the same right?

Like Caarl Sagan, or Neill Daegrass Tyson or something (going with your examples).

Also, some of the taken names are by people who have saved the name for themselves by making an alt. -1 on the OPs idea. It is silly.

They can't - it would screw up the employment history tabs, on older toons especially.

When a corporation is closed, they could add "(Closed: 01/17/11)" to the end of the corporation name. All it would be is a name change, it woudl be obvious that membership was to a now-closed entity, but the name would be unique (due to the date) and old corporation and alliance names would be made available again.