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Solid Rock
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Posted - 2012.03.29 20:01:00 -
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I for one would welcome an opportunity to change my character name, it has been 8 years since i made this character and i havent gone by Solid Rock in most other setings for the past 6 of those. It is also worth noting that i was only 15 years old at the time, and as i have become older and more mature i worry that the rather silly name may prevent me from being taken seriously. Yet i do no want to loose 8 years worth of game progress for the sake of a name either
There a plenty of ways to safeguard a system like this against abuse, making it a paid service akin to the old portrait transfers will discourage most casual abuse and adding, as was already sugested by the OP, a 12 month cooldown will make it rather useless as a means of getting away with all but the longest cons. At any rate, i believe that the notion that you could disapear completely simply by virtue of a changed name is shaky at best. If you are worth hunting down someone will enivitably put two and two together or your friends will rat you out at the promise of riches or the threat of a 1400 mm canon up their auxiliary exaust port. The potential for abuse is limited at best if implemented properly, i would even say that the security status requirement is a bit much
As for block lists, i am certain the game already tracks characters by ID codes rather than names within the games internal logic. It is not a huge stretch to imagine that block's could be made to stick regardless of names. |
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Posted - 2012.03.31 19:50:00 -
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Astrid Stjerna wrote:[quote=Asudem]In the offline world, a criminal's name is plastered across the news. He can call himself 'Bob' all he wants, but if someone recognizes him as 'Fred the Escaped Convict', he's going to go back to jail. It's the same thing in EvE -- you can't just walk away from your past like nothing ever happened.
And this is ofcourse why witness protection programs never work and criminals on the run are always caught. Because humans are completely impossible to fool and everyone has an eidetic memory for faces.
Regardless of the myriad ways in which a feature such as this is perceivably open to abuse i have yet to hear one that is still a credible threat to the games integrity assuming a 12 month cooldown. How often do you reckon the average EVE criminal finds himself up **** creek? How many EVE players do you know of who are entirely solitary? The name is only a superficial part of a character and, as i have sated earlier, if someone wants you found it will require quite a bit more than a simple name change to stay hidden. You might get a few days or even a week or two in the clear before you are right back where you started, unless you are willing to cut all ties with your friends and start over completely. People who are willing to go this far are probably already doing so using new characters bought from the bazaar. |
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Posted - 2012.04.01 07:12:00 -
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Barbara Nichole wrote:
I really don't like the idea of having to sift through mountains of alis' to determine if any player is someone I need to avoid allowing into my corp.
Again, assuming a 12 month cooldown, even if this feature had been introduced on launch day no one character could possibly have more than 9 aliases. The reality of the thing is that you may have to look through 3 or 4 past aliases or, in the case of most players, none.
As for the character trading, are you honestly suggesting that it is a good thing that it is possible to buy someone elses reputation? Potentially wiping your slate clean is a terrible idea but the ability to take on someone elses past achievements completely undeserved is one of the things that makes EVE great? If anything a name wipe aught to be mandatory for traded characters, everyone is afraid of scammers and other criminals escaping justice but have you considered that it is currently possible to buy good-will? |
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Posted - 2012.04.02 11:00:00 -
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Barbara Nichole wrote:3 would be too much.. to have to reason each name.. for every applicant.. sorry but it's a bad idea. much easier to not allow name changes at all than have to worry about it.
So thats your argument? That you are too lazy to want to spend a little longer mulling over an applicant. You are assuming that everyone will start changing their names as often as they possibly can yet this is very unlikely to be the case. There will be perhaps 1 in a dozen applicant with an alias, in fact it may even make things easier.
Consider this, how often will a law abiding player have cause to change their name? Once or twice in a decade perhaps? No more often than every 2 or 3 years atleast. So if you get a corp applicant with a list of, well for the sake of the argument lets say, 7 or 8 aliases on a 3 year old character. Would you really need to look into every one of those aliases to know that he is most likely a bad egg? |
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Posted - 2012.04.03 08:24:00 -
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Nova Fox wrote:This game has concequences deal with it.
It certainly does, I am not sure why you would think that this is relevant here however. Unless of course you assume that name changes are only relevant to people trying to escape said consequences
Nova Fox wrote:Also anyone that ever gets thier name changed is likely to never be allowed into another player corp ever again.
Perhaps, perhaps not. It all depends on the corp you are trying to join. Most corps aren't worth stealing from or spying on. At any rate, should it not be left up to the individual to decide whether or not they wanna risk it? Or should we foam pad our missiles as well while we are at it?
You seem to imply that I, and others like me should have had the foresight to pick a better name. But how much foresight did any of you have as a teenager? I created this character almost a decade ago, when I did so I was a teen with a shiny new game. EVE was still new, and rather tiny back then. This was before WOW came along and made MMO's something everyone played, i couldn't possibly have known that this shiny new toy would actually come to have an impact on my life.
And now here i sit 8 years later, a grown man stuck with the same stupid name. How could i possibly expect to be taken seriously? This, i believe, is the very reason we do not let kids name themselves. |
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Posted - 2012.04.04 08:27:00 -
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MiltGyver wrote:People that aren't in your contacts will just be displayed by their latest name.
Quite a lot of characters dont have last names though, the early character creator did not encourage them like the later ones have. |
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Posted - 2012.04.10 21:12:00 -
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ElQuirko wrote:This would destroy killboards
I dont see why it shouldnt be possible to make killboards continue to function. And again, I doubt name changes will be a frequent occurence if it is implemented. |
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