Put a . after it?

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.

It's the same complaint that occurs about domain name squatting. What if you wanted to start a website for your deluxe peanut shop family business called Peanut House, but found that peanuthouse.com is taken by someone who is not even using it?

That person had the idea to get the domain name first, and paid money to do so, just as the guy in that one-man corp you're hating on did. In fact, the guy in the one-man corp likely paid more for his corp name legacy than the domain name squatter paid for the same amount of time holding peanuthouse.com. Why can anyone feel entitled to a corp name enough to boot someone else who paid for the same corp name?

That's true, and if making people buy corps from you for the name was a thing, I'd like it. If there was a game around it, if there was a reason in EVE to sit on a corp name... but there isn't :(

I mean, I hear you're allowed to continually bump a freighter if you have an actual reason for doing so. (Don't take my word on that, it's normally considered grief play)

I don't think corp names that belonged to actual corps that had members should be claimable, though. Those are a part of EVE history.

No, I want to datamine all the dead corps in Eve for other people wanting to start a corp. I already have a suitable corp name now after placing some punctuation half way through the name I originally wanted which was a pretty obscure mix of pretty random words and something quite personal to me. To be honest I was VERY surprised it was taken.

I did not expect this much hostility towards an idea designed to clean up the database, and free up some names for the new spunk coming into the game. Fair enough taking names from established players on a 3 year 'break' might be out of the question, but shutting down 'corporations' held by completely undeveloped alts on 5 year inactive accounts?

Something like this could probably be quite easily be coded into a script/parser with some kind IF/THEN function to delete entries with perameters surrounding '>5 year account inactivity' and 'character development = 0' (I don't pretend to be a programmer so mock me if needs be but I'm sure CCP's data trackers have perameters like these that could be taken advantage of). I'm sure some kind of database failsafe already exists to dump characters into their original noob corps if a bug causes them to become corpless.

Meh, I've said my piece which is what these forums are for at the end of the day. I'll leave the thread to burn in the flames.

All corps have at least one member. Fun fact, they're all also part of Eve history, for the same reason.

And you can sell corpnames. Where does it say that you cannot?


They may still have value. Those corps can be tradeable commodities. Simply stripping them away is bad for business.

Hyperbole. You cannot prove their login data. And if you can, disclosing it here is a violation of the TOS and EULA.

So the answer remains: Their right to it is as valuable as yours or the OP's. More, actually, because they got it first.

Uh, I kind of did back on page 2.

"Possibly Inactive"

Yeah that looks really definitive right there boy.

i went the obscure movie reference route

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.

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.

You also aren't taking into account for the people who are just too damn lazy to kill the corp. I say if someone wants a shot at a corp name that appears to be inactive,then CCP can send an email to the account holder of the corp. Even if he doesn't play the game currently and still wants it then he can say no, I won't release it. If he doesn't answer in 10 days or says yeah give it up, then the corp can be relinquished to somebody who will use it. One of the older mmo's used to do this but sadly I can't remember which one it was.