Name Changes

[skarlorn]

I am so glad everyone is being cleansed. You should have followed the rules! God bless the staff.

[NachtMystium]

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

I am so glad everyone is being cleansed. You should have followed the rules! God bless the staff.

So who is to blame for not enforcing them for years? Why should people be punished for the staffs lack of adherence to the rules from the beginning?

It's bad governing to have a generally unspoken leeway for years that everyone was cool with then turn around and retro everyone to shit for names like Winchester.

Like I said before, no one will put the work in to create a new p99. this has already causes big backlash but I doubt anything major will happen. P99 is just a nostalgiabox and will die with the people who no longer have old Everquest memories

[skarlorn]

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

So who is to blame for not enforcing them for years? Why should people be punished for the staffs lack of adherence to the rules from the beginning?

It's bad governing to have a generally unspoken leeway for years that everyone was cool with then turn around and retro everyone to shit for names like Winchester.

The only people to blame are ppl who named themselves in ways that broke the naming convention.

I'm not sorry everyone got accustomed to their immersion ruining names.

Now that the staff is at the end of the timeline, they have more focus to make it clear what they want out of p99 aside from the final patch.

[loramin]

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

So as long as it's an obscure reference it's okay? Good logic

Name generator from verant is hearsay and not provable at all. Literally holds zero weight in your argument

You're right, I can never "prove" the name came from the generator. But I can prove I had it on live in 2000 (maybe 2001) as I've got screenshots from era-appropriate GM events that could never have happened her on P99 (eg. one involves the Avatar or Love, which to my knowledge has never appeared here). And since this was before the drug alias, where else would I get such a random fantasy sounding name other than the generator? I'm not that creative.

But really you hit the nail on the head with:

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

So as long as it's an obscure reference it's okay? Good logic

It's actually perfect logic: the whole idea of "breaking immersion" is that you see something from outside the game that clearly doesn't belong. An obscure drug alias won't register to 99% of the players as something that doesn't belong.

I had a friend name a WoW character Rengstorf ... after a street name near him. 99% of people don't have a Rengstorf street near them so they'll just see it as a cool name for a dwarf, no harm no foul. But if someone named their character "AvenueQ" that would obviously not belong to 100% of the players.

This isn't rocket science people: if your name clearly means something non-Everquest-related when most people see it, it doesn't belong. If your name is the same as something obscure that most people have never heard of, it's fine.

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

So who is to blame for not enforcing them for years?

Um, the staff? And if you really can't see fit to forgive not enforcing one particular rule 100% of the time in the past (on the free server they've been running for almost a decade) ... you're an ass.

[Phenyo]

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

Um, the staff?

Blatant staff bashing. This is against the rules.

[Lulz~Sect]

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

I am so glad everyone is being cleansed. You should have followed the rules! God bless the staff.

[skarlorn]

Everyone complaining about your names being changed...

Just imagine the agony I have suffered running around Norrath seeing your terrible, stupid f*cking names.

[Ciksharn]

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

Everyone complaining about your names being changed...

Just imagine the agony I have suffered running around Norrath seeing your terrible, stupid f*cking names.

Everyone should just be happy with the time they had to enjoy their name before it gets destroyed to immersion. We are making p99 great again

[Lhancelot]

Like Skarlorn, I will begin to /petition and try to have any and/or all character names purged if they are not in accordance with the naming policy.

To prove my ogre shaman is clearly violating the naming policy, I submit this link:

http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Bahgtru

And this SS:

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Hope this helps with the purge.

Psst, Baler... help me out man have a talk with someone get this changed man, I always hated this name and would LOVE to get it taken off! Thanks bro!


For the purge, RAWWRRR!!! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[NachtMystium]

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

Like Skarlorn, I will begin to /petition and try to have any and/or all character names purged if they are not in accordance with the naming policy.

To prove my ogre shaman is clearly violating the naming policy, I submit this link:

http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Bahgtru

And this SS:

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Hope this helps with the purge.

Psst, Baler... help me out man have a talk with someone get this changed man, I always hated this name and would LOVE to get it taken off! Thanks bro!


For the purge, RAWWRRR!!! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Im actually joining this. Gonna make a super dumb namesnitch name and start rollin out these name petitions, kittens is at the top of the list for the guild name. At least we can make some entertaining meta out of all this! We should make a namesnitch guild?