Valea Silpha
Abyssal Heavy Industries
Narwhals Ate My Duck
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Posted - 2012.04.05 00:48:00 -
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RavenTesio wrote:
Mind I still wouldn't mind CCP having some slightly stricter guidelines on naming practices. Some peoples names are done simply to **** with FCs calling them out, which really should be disallowed imo - same with totally unpronouncable names that look like someone simply smacked their head on the keyboard and went "Yep, that's a keeper!"
That's an interesting point.
I get what you're saying. I really do. But since Eve is localized into Russian and Japanese and such, it is extremely hard for people who have no knowledge of those languages to say 'Yeah, thats just screwing with us'. Especially when you add to it that very few people have real words as their name, it would be extremely EXTREMELY hard to enforce that. And then you top it off with Eve being a long was distant even from the pretense of role playing for most players, a lot of people are happy to roll with a handle, rather than a genuine name, because that's the nature of the interwebs. A lot of those names aren't really supposed to be said out loud, just read off a screen. Its supposed to be individual and unique, not practical.
As for adding names and stuff... Hmmm... I think that mechanically its a no-go. Since your name as originally typed is the only way to persistently find a character. Imagine trying to look up a guy you were friends with back in your old corp, maybe to call in a favor or just to chat. You put in his first name, because he was first name only...The results already put out everyone who has that name and a surname. And add to that all the scamming crap... Bleh. Given that even people with names that they thought they invented (like mine) have a few other people with similar names, and so even minor changes can make it impossible to find someone without blind guess work.
I'm sorry, but it just doesn't seem that there could be a place for this in game. It's just... The way it is. Changing the only unique identifier for your character, at any cost, would break various aspects of the game. Even non-sinister uses of this would be at best deeply inconvenient.
the sad thing is that even a compromise, like having a thing similar to your corp title that you can fill out yourself would mostly not be read and even then its not going to be used to refer to you. |