Be original. Be creative.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Look around...

"Mouse Melon Jesus Socks" will fit in quite well.

What on earth is 'be original' supposed to mean? Everything was original at some point. Providing I am not trying to copy something else I have seen or copy a well known phrase I am 'being original'.

Eve has been around for almost 10 years, how many thousands of word combination corporations have been created since?

Unless I want to call my corporation something completely random like Mouse Melon Jesus Socks, everything I have come up with so far has been taken.

And no I am not trying to call myself names like 'Alpha Corp', 'Apature Science' or 'Temporal Shift'. That really would be 'unoriginal'.

I only wonder because it seems to me like your idea is pretty terrible and you wouldn't want this to happen to you after a break from Eve anymore than the people whose corpnames you want to victimize.

Am I right?

Please stop posting. Every post you make is absolutely terrible.

Im sure that this is one of the rules of the internet.

"All the best names will be taken"

Mouse Melon Jesus Socks

That is actually a great name, I will take it tonight with an alt.

You need more imagination, OP. I don't know what sort of corp you want to create, but here are some suggestions that aren't taken:

• Gamma Draconis Industries
• Elysium Corp
• Hermes Freight Services
• Forum Whiners Inc
• My Duck Is On Fire
• Accidentally The Whole Ship
• Fragstorm
• Honeybadger (or Honeybadgers)
• Petrus Blackshell Is Awesome

I particularly recommend that last one.

So players who paid their million ISK to start a corp and then took a break from Eve should be stripped of their ISK's value (Corp/Corpname taken away) for your mental convenience?

Precisely how many corps would have to become Corp####### before your brain has enough power to come up with a corp name that is no longer taken? How many perturbations of your ideas did you try? Did you use synonyms? Acronyms? Did you try splashing in a dash of l33t?

I only wonder because it seems to me like your idea is pretty terrible and you wouldn't want this to happen to you after a break from Eve anymore than the people whose corpnames you want to victimize. Especially given how much effott you have obviously had to put into it.

Am I right?

No actually, if I came back to eve after 5 years of not playing and found myself in a noob corp and someone else had my original corp name I would think 'fair enough', as I would imagine most rational people would.

I would say that perhaps the word 'played' is key here to describe someone who hasn't logged in for 5 years...you are likely uppity about the idea because you continue to play and assign social value to the name of your corp rather and those it, something that someone who comes back to Eve after 5 years is unlikely to do I should imagine given that there would be no one left in the corp in the situations I have described...).

If taking away a name from a legitimate player is such an issue, a simple fix would be to parse the database for corporations held by alts with no skillpoint development at all on accounts that have been inactive for >5 years. A number of legitimate players holding a corp in this way to be affected would be so miniscule to not merit mentioning compared with the number of forgotten faceless alts of people who tried eve, created a corp and decided not to bother.

I think the OP has a good point about one-man minimum-skill alts taking up corp names. Their post wasn't about actual old corps, just one-man non-corps. Telling them to 'be more creative' to get around the issue doesn't make it any less of an issue.

No actually, if I came back to eve after 5 years of not playing and found myself in a noob corp and someone else had my original corp name I would think 'fair enough'...

Use an original name or bypass the limitation by using an extra symbol in the name. I'm not saying your idea is bad, just that this really is an issue you can easily get around on your own by using a minimum amount of imagination.

Those people paid their in-game ISK to reserve the name, too.

If I had the oldest corp in Eve, came back, found it gone and me in an NPC corp...

...I'd wonder why they datamined my corp for a half-wit's naming woes tbfh.

Put a . after it?

Oh, no. A one-day's-worth-of-skills character and an entire million ISK, gone.

If someone created a corp with no members on a one-day character then cancelled their sub, there's really no reason for the corp to exist at all. Better it goes to someone who actually plans to recruit some members and do something with it.

Stop crying "LULZ THE OP HAS NONE IMAGNATION", it's not an argument.