Naming Policy Compromise

[Wurl]

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

30 day warning for a rename via adding an "x" to level one characters with no experience, coin, items (save noob stuff), that are on login accounts that have no been logged in during the last year.

TBH I like my idea a lot better than level 1 character wipes.

1. I think it would be easier to implement (because it has presumably already been done and would just have to be disabled after a month).
2. It would more aggressively let us recycle names that otherwise may never be recycled. I imagine there are level 2 "Drizzt" and "Gandalf"s out there somewhere [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]. Maybe this more aggressive name recycling doesn't matter for Green1, but maybe it does for Green2, or Green3.

[loramin]

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

That's only for level one characters dude.

I haven't heard anyone talk about anything other than level 1 wipes here.

I think there would be VASTLY more opposition to wiping higher level characters ... which is why I think everyone talking about wipes is purely talking about getting rid of (or renaming) unused level 1 toons.

[Daud]

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

TBH I like my idea a lot better than level 1 character wipes.

1. I think it would be easier to implement (because it has presumably already been done and would just have to be disabled after a month).
2. It would more aggressively let us recycle names that otherwise may never be recycled. I imagine there are level 2 "Drizzt" and "Gandalf"s out there somewhere [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]. Maybe this more aggressive name recycling doesn't matter for Green1, but maybe it does for Green2, or Green3.

Lifting the blue name filter on green at any time for a server that plans to merge to blue is just going to be a complete cluster fuck of renaming thousands, tens of thousands of names of high level, active characters

Hard pass, you're never gonna get the blue filter lifted as long as there is a blue merge, and the blue merge isn't not gonna happen so you might as well forget it.

[Wurl]

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

Lifting the blue name filter on green at any time for a server that plans to merge to blue is just going to be a complete cluster fuck of renaming thousands, tens of thousands of names of high level, active characters

Hard pass, you're never gonna get the blue filter lifted as long as there is a blue merge, and the blue merge isn't not gonna happen so you might as well forget it.

You know it's going to happen currently, right? You're going to have to rename any characters that you make with the same name as blue characters.

[Nilstoniakrath]

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

You know it's going to happen currently, right? You're going to have to rename any characters that you make with the same name as blue characters.

They haven't said what exactly they are going to do with duplicate named characters. Best guess is add an -x to the end of one, but there could be a total rename option too. It's all speculation at this point

[Wurl]

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

They haven't said what exactly they are going to do with duplicate named characters. Best guess is add an -x to the end of one, but there could be a total rename option too. It's all speculation at this point

Yup, my guess is they do something like that and give each merged character the ability to /rename.

The point is though, this would work equally well if the blue name filter was permanent or if the blue filter is removed after a month.

[Daud]

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

You know it's going to happen currently, right? You're going to have to rename any characters that you make with the same name as blue characters.

You know that is a conscious decision if it's your own character and you can decide for yourself if you want the character renamed, where as in contrast, if they remove the name filter at any point there's no way to know if you're making an original name or not and are going to either have to get renamed or rename the blue character, right?

I'd be pretty pissed if I thought I was making an original name on Green, only to get renamed on the merge.

I'd be pissed if my 3 year old level 60 got renamed because some dickhead made a level 5 mage on Green with my name.

These are the situations that have to happen if you take away the blue name filter on green depending who you decide to rename on the merge.

[Wurl]

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

I'd be pretty pissed if I thought I was making an original name on Green, only to get renamed on the merge.

I'd be fine if this happened to me, personally. I find this scenario more desirable than names never being recycled on Green servers.

[Daud]

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

I'd be fine if this happened to me, personally. I find this scenario more desirable than names never being recycled on Green servers.

Super coolio for you man, but there's a lot of people who aren't even cool with any kind of rename/delete, so I've got no doubts not everyone is going to be hunky dory with just randomly getting an "x" added to their name with no way to know it, and should have at least the option to decide if they want to go that route ahead of time instead of making names a complete crapshoot. We're supposed to be talking about compromise, right? You know, taking into account how more than just you feel about something?

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

Yup, my guess is they do something like that and give each merged character the ability to /rename.

There's about a 0% chance of getting full character name changes. Lets forget that's way, way, beyond what they did in classic. There's no way I see they're gonna let people run around like giant douche nozzles, just short of getting banned, for Green or Blue and then just hand them a full name change on the merge just because they made the character on blue first. Ain't. gonna. happen.

[Wurl]

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

Super coolio for you man

You are being super aggressive, mate. Did you feel personally attacked when I said I thought a level 1 character purge wouldn't be enough? Do you have other ideas? Attacking me isn't really being helpful, and you're not coming off well here.