Green Naming Policy (Petition)

[Arvan]

The big thing is that on p99 anyone can make 100s of accounts full of names for free on live you had to pay for each account full of names. Name purge is sorely needed!

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Arvan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The big thing is that on p99 anyone can make 100s of accounts full of names for free on live you had to pay for each account full of names. Name purge is sorely needed!

+1 this: it completely invalidates all "it's unclassic to purge" arguments (ignoring of course the arguments that purges are classic).

It's the same thing as 2-boxing: P99 can't be like live because we can't charge, so we have to have an unclassic policy (no 2-boxing, no millions of characters rotting on accounts) to make things feel classic here.

[Maker_Mayhem]

Great points Arvan & Loramin.

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[slowpoke68]

Also if we are talking about whether it is classic to purge names or not I would add that the only thing less classic than a modified name purge would be allowing people to reserve a name at all on a new server.

For instance since I played on X server and I had a name I should be able to get that same name on Brell Serilis when it opens. (Brell launched a couple of months after the initial launch.) I rolled on Brell the day after it opened and there were no reserved names at all for people wanting to reroll from one of the initial launch servers that I am aware of.

But as I have said before I will take Green however the devs want to do it and be happy. I do urge them to reconsider this policy though as I believe it will severely limit people's ability to secure a lore appropriate name.

Thanks for listening.

[Videri]

People might have muled an important item on a level 1 character.

Adding an "x" to the end of the name to free it up seems more likely than deleting people's characters.

[Jimjam]

Originally Posted by Videri [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

People might have muled an important item on a level 1 character.

That would be a pretty stupid thing to do considering this is a classic server and inactive level 1 purges are classic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.].

[a_gnome_collector]

sorry, but i have to vote against this one for 2 reasons.

Say there is a high profile player on blue and someone takes his name on green just to be a troll and/or create drama for that player. Sorry... freeing up surnames would only add fuel to a troll fire in this respect.

This community happens to be very small. Very, very, small. So its not like wow with hundreds of thousands of players. The potential for creating confusion by unlocking all the names would basically allow one person, who already is an active player, to take a handle from another already active player. Again, just makes no sense.

RIP this thread.
Devs lead the way.

[dwarf_cleric420]

Everyone would still have their character names locked. The only names that would be freed up in the purge are the thousands of lvl 1 characters that haven't even moved from the original spawn point and were created merely to reserve the name.

Any active character on blue should be able to reserve their name on green, this makes complete sense to avoid troll identy theft... However, forcing everyone to use what's leftover after 10 years is pretty lame, considering how many lvl 1 characters are out there just rotting away with good names.

Purge the lvl ones that have no Plat or items, it just makes sense

[a_gnome_collector]

Originally Posted by dwarf_cleric420 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Everyone would still have their character names locked. The only names that would be freed up in the purge are the thousands of lvl 1 characters that haven't even moved from the original spawn point and were created merely to reserve the name.

Any active character on blue should be able to reserve their name on green, this makes complete sense to avoid troll identy theft... However, forcing everyone to use what's leftover after 10 years is pretty lame, considering how many lvl 1 characters are out there just rotting away with good names.

Purge the lvl ones that have no Plat or items, it just makes sense

I hear you. Its not a terrible idea. But its not a realistic idea either. Heres why: how are the devs going to identify which names are locked to an inactive account? There is no way to tell. Example, what if theres an active player with dormant accounts he does not use? How would the devs be able to determine this? Not without a lot of extra research. And unfortunately, they probably don't have that kind of time.

What they needed to do was come up with a one-size fits all naming policy, for legacy accounts and future accounts. And I think they did the best they could.