Teinyhr
A Club for Reputable Gentlemen
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Posted - 2012.05.24 13:06:00 -
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"Your name is your reputation" is nothing short of a b******t excuse these days for not implementing name change. Only the ballsiest and/or most sociopathic players don't use alts to scam or otherwise inconvenience other players, instead of reveling in their bad rep. However, a considerable amount of people are avoiding karma simply by having alts. With the plex system having a "dirty work alt" is easier than it was ever before.
At the very least old characters should be offered a name change due to the limitations of the old character creation system, if for no other reason. I mean back in the day I'm not even sure if there was a name randomizer available (possibly was, but can't remember for sure), not to mention being able to have three parts to your name. I nevertheless would want this to become an actual paid feature wtih ideas that have been passed around before in greater detail, like once a year maximum, a reasonable yet abuse discouraging price tag (say, the price of a months sub, and you couldn't buy it with PLEX) at the very least.
To make a compromise to the ever complaining, self entitled bitter vets, namechanged accounts should be noticeable somehow, possibly having a small star(*), exclamation point(!) or any variant thereof, added behind their name.
It should be fairly unobtrusive on the name itself, but still appear in the overview/chatlists in a way that would be immediately noticeable. This would alert the most paranoid of us to check the many times over suggested name history tab of the character.
Personally I'd even be happy with just having a slot you could fill out yourself in style of roleplaying addons of other MMO's, that would display when opening character info, under a characters name. Other people could use it to add imaginary titles to themselves or something.
EDIT:
Adding this link for good measure to a thread about this in CSM, it debunks the common reasons for saying "no" much better than I ever could.
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=8710 |