Posted - 2011.05.26 18:50:00 - [301]

 

Originally by: SXmasteraccount

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Originally by: Barbara Nichole

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Originally by: W'A'R

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I must agree that a name change should be mandatory when buying/selling a character. Lets say you buy a character with a very good reputation toward an alliance, you steal 200bil from that alliance, thank you come again.

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I disagree! the character rep should remain so the person selling pays the price for his actions (as long as a buyer does his due diligence). ...otherwise, you will have selling exploits where some corp thief can sell the character to a friend of himself and by pass consequences, keeping a character with points and a different identity.. bad thing.

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This name change thread supports what you said. The character changing names will keep all notes, standings, physical appearance, AND it gets put right on their history tab. I think the guy you quoted just meant we should get name changes in the event the buyer purchased a character who ripped off a corp and it wasn't made public until after the sale. (Or some sort of similar situation)

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The point is it makes the corp thief have to worry that no one will buy his character if he can't change the name.. sorry the answer from me is still, "never".

Posted - 2011.06.02 20:54:00 - [303]

 

Edited by: Nova Fox on 02/06/2011 20:54:11
Edited by: Nova Fox on 02/06/2011 20:53:50

Originally by: GM Lelouch

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Other questions:

Character renaming by Gilligan2011
Character renaming 2 by Thunderpants Longdrop
Character renaming 3 by vinnymcg

There is no way to change a character's name at present and there are currently no plans to introduce a method to do so. It goes somewhat against the whole "alter identity" and reputation building part of EVE to open up the option for character renames.

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Told you, Idea was dead on arrival.

Posted - 2011.06.06 00:39:00 - [305]

 

Edited by: SXmasteraccount on 06/06/2011 00:51:46
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Posted - 2011.06.06 00:47:00 - [307]

 

Edited by: SXmasteraccount on 06/06/2011 00:56:20

Originally by: Liz Oz

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I support this.

All of the different suggestions people have made to track said character name changes is great.

Additionally I would like suggest allowing a "one time only name change" request.

I would hope that allowing a name change only one time would keep both parties, those for and against name changes happy.

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I'm not 100% convinced limiting it would be great, but at this point I guess I would have to since the argument seems to be going no where.

Originally by: Xenuria

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Redoing the portrait is easy enough.
Renaming is not yet bug free and causes some server side issues that are problematic.
Name History would suffer from some of the same problems as renaming would.


It is not at the top of the list but once the bugs are killed renaming will be possible.

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Post under a CCP name and we'll talk. Until then I don't believe you considering GMs already have and use the ability to change profanity names without harm. Ever notice Citizen12323143 roaming around?

Also post these "problems" and bugs that name history creates. I'd love to hear them, with screenshots, video, or some form of proof of course. :)

Originally by: Shieko Chan

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Edited by: Shieko Chan on 26/05/2011 18:46:54

This would be a fat can of worms if it's implemented. Players should never be allowed to change names.. at all. Not for love or money. There are many exploitive reasons that are good enough to cause me to say no way.

The easiest is there is a mission bot factory somewhere in my home area.. hundreds of new characters float through a week with names like "dhdgdfgw" in corps of the same name. They build LP and gather insignias while training.. If you could change the names suddenly all these lame bots would have a whole new value, as characters for sale - probably out of game.

NO, players should never be able to change names.. never!

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I will and you should leave illegal RMT conspiracies to CCP.
Also the flaw in your post is that the names like afkdjagsdfksj which are illegal RMTr's most of the time get banned after a good week or two.

Originally by: Barbara Nichole

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The point is it makes the corp thief have to worry that no one will buy his character if he can't change the name.. sorry the answer from me is still, "never".

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That isn't something that would 100% happen. Just because you would disregard a character for it's history doesn't mean others would. You're opinion won't change, that's fine and it's already been heard.

Originally by: Nova Fox

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Edited by: Nova Fox on 02/06/2011 20:54:11
Edited by: Nova Fox on 02/06/2011 20:53:50

Originally by: GM Lelouch

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Other questions:

Character renaming by Gilligan2011
Character renaming 2 by Thunderpants Longdrop
Character renaming 3 by vinnymcg

There is no way to change a character's name at present and there are currently no plans to introduce a method to do so. It goes somewhat against the whole "alter identity" and reputation building part of EVE to open up the option for character renames.

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Told you, Idea was dead on arrival.

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11 pages in and you still have no clue as to the point of this thread. Good job.

Why don't I just use the Devblog Helmar posted about adding name changes Nova douche? I think Helmar kinda "1 up's" that if you want to... Again, 11 pages in, and you just post opinions without reading through the thread. I'm not even going to direct you to what page the link was on in hopes you will actually read the thread trying to find it.

Posted - 2011.07.04 13:45:00 - [309]

 

I see no problem with name changes as long as the following steps have been taken.

1. Name change History displayed in both character sheet and limited api along with all other relevent data attached, as in employment history and such.

2. All standings transfer over. If the player is tagged by other players with low standings, they carry over. Also an evemail is sent to everyone that has you tagged informing them of said name change.

3. Charge Cash for it, perhaps with price increasing for each new change. Or limit the number of times you can do it.

With the above minimum I just don't see how anyone will be able to abuse the system by doing bad **** as covering up their rep by changing thier name is impossible. Perhaps adding a speical icon next the players name in local would relive concerns of some saying chartersheet list could be overlooked. All thou standings would not change so I find it a mute point. Red is red after all, shoot it.

Posted - 2011.07.04 13:50:00 - [311]

 

Originally by: Robert Caldera

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4. Player search should find players by their old names.

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Ah yes, very good point that I forgot to add.

Posted - 2011.07.25 11:48:00 - [313]

 

Disguise kit would be perfect. Like in Ultima Online.

Posted - 2011.07.25 19:00:00 - [315]

 

Originally by: Mag's

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No thanks.

Next time, make sure the name of the char you are buying, is one that you can live with.

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Ok, you can choose to not change your name but dont interfere with other people; mind your own business.