"Forcing" you? Nobody forced you to do anything. You should be forced to watch a Bollywood marathon so you learn the definition of that word. I know a guy who named his dog "Dog", and his cat "Cat". He was about to name his hamster "Hamster", but Cat ate it.

Any other differences?

Before permanent skin system was deployed Serenity's already sold manually permanent skin blueprints which could be replenished by submitting a petition.

Players on Serenity will be given unallocated skill points if the maintenance exceeds the time announcement says.

And the second most significant disadvantage and difference is that the limitation of skill queue still exists.

Serenity is the paradise of RMT and macros. Every alliance has a lot of teams mining and ratting with macros. And they seldom get banned
It's notorious.

Just looked at Serenity's online pop, 7.500ish compared to 26.400ish TQ, quite backwater.
Players over there will NOT play a game if they cant RMT, bot and stuff alike, CCP has to let them get away with it and give them a few more concessions or lose. Cultural thing, i guess. They would go back to WoW gold farming in a blink.

Oh, wait, they're probably all sleeping right now. So that's 7500 bots?

Most people say no, and their reasoning is faulty. We already have the Character Bazaar. Anyone looking to abandon a "tainted" name and pick up a new one can.

The usual counter argument?

"But someone had to invest time and money in that character and then sell it!"

Which means they are ok with it in principle; they just want to haggle over price and difficulty for it.

So maybe the question should be, how much should a name change cost in time and money?

Six plex and only once every 10 million sp?

But please people, give up this faux purist stance. It makes you look dumb.

That's a lot of nonsense you typed there. But keep trying, perhaps someday you'll come up with logic and reasoning that doesn't sound silly.

In regards to the Dev Blog "Exploring The Character Bazaar & Skill Trading", they touched on something important:

"That part really hits home for me because when I made that jump from 15mil SP to 33mil SP I went from being called GÇÿTurbo DinosaurGÇÖ to being called GÇÿKil2GÇÖ. Puke. I also found out, after the fact, that Kil2 had been involved in some kind of corp theft which meant I had to deal with negative reputation issues for years afterwards."


They hinted that maybe there might be a feature where you could change a character's name with the larger SP and Character Bazaar changes. I'm assuming it would be the buyer of a new character during a character transfer sale. Unfortunately, the above sentences are the only piece of information we have in relation to name changes (in that blog, that is). I think we need more information on this as name changing in EVE would be a big thing.

One abuse that I could see from this is a scammer that committed a scam and can simply transfer the scamming character over to another of his/her accounts and wipe the name clean with a new name. I'm indifferent about that so it doesn't bother me but I think that's worth pointing out.

I hope we can get some more information on this. Seems pretty big.

As for changing the name I don't see any reason why you can't, all what needs to happen is a note in the history to say what the old name was.

Because that would threaten the easy money of established players. I'm sure a few also have built up a self image based on EVE as being a "hard core" game. So this probably threatens those few on an irrational and personal level. I'll say it again, the only difference from a name change service and the character bazaar is investment in time, money, and difficulty of acquisition. In principle they are the same.

You should be able to wipe your characters identity.... but you lose 20% of your total SP in the process.

On top of the PLEX you pay to the CCP that should be enough of a deterrent to stop abuse.

One thing I really don't want to see is they implement this and make it traceable, it is annoying enough already to scroll through corp history when trying to PvP, let alone a full history of the various names a character has had.

Also if they do this then they can completely scrap the terrible skill trading proposal.

Definitely not, the history should stay intact.

Changing a name is one thing, wiping out its history is another.

Like I said losing 20% is enough of a deterrent to stop abuse. It is effectively a different character in practical purposes with such a big chunk of SP being removed.

I was hoping it would register that my proposal was pretty harsh against name change, you didn't seem to understand that though.

Ad hominem to you too.

Well the op clearly needs to train "reading comprehension V " pronto, but that aside I'll chirp in again in favour of the notion of changing a name with the caveat that the old name is easily accessible and it has no impact on standings,watchlists ect ec.

Yeah yeah, conciquences and all that but where it really matters you will check to see any previous aliases

What's the point in a name change if you can't change it to Mr Epeen?

And you can't. It's mine and I'll never, ever give it up.

Mr Epeen

It's simple enough just add a tab entitled "known Aliases". It would actually add more depth to the game since people adopt different names for various reason in real life.

You can change your name easily and legally in the real world, so why not in Eve?

All you end up with is a piece of paper stating that you changed it, with your former name and new name and some signatures including witnesses signatures.

So having a note in the history isn't really any different.




Edit:

I think part of the reason probably was because you don't get to choose your name at birth, so as an adult you should be free to be called what you want to be called.

Which is like buying characters from the bazaar, you didn't choose the name at its birth/creation so you should be free to call it what you want (as long as it is within the EULA).


Edit 2:

Just to be clear about my first edit, all characters should be able to change their name at a cost. In the real world it costs, so I don't see why it shouldn't cost here. Plus if a cost is attached it will stop people just changing it for the sake of it.