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View Poll Results: Do you feel the Green Server should revisit it's naming Policy? | |||
Yes! It is supposed to be a fresh start! | 93 | 54.07% | |
No thanks, i'll take the naming leftovers from Blue's 1,000,000 toons. | 79 | 45.93% | |
Voters: 172. You may not vote on this poll |
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But if you wanted to disagree with what I actually wrote, how about you just quote a single person making the argument (not checking a box in a poll, but actually saying) that renaming level 1s no one uses would be a bad thing? Then I can read it, then I'll no longer be able to say: Quote:
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Edit: Whoops, you said rename not delete, my bad. | ||||
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BUT, I would be ok with a narrowly defined wipe. Only characters meeting the following criteria: 1) Level 1, AND 2) inactive for over a year, AND 3) only in possession of the items a character gets upon creation, i.e. the no drop food and drink, the guild note, and the noobie weapon Also, there would need to be system messages in game, for at least a week or more before the purge, giving notice to players so that they can take appropriate measures if they want to avoid having their alts deleted | |||
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What I'm saying is, when you get specific and talk about just renaming (or even deleting) toons that no one has played in over a year, and which don't have any meaningful loot, I've yet to hear anyone actually say "that sounds like a bad idea to me". When you ask people for a knee-jerk reaction to a poll, do some people think "hell no, I like my character name?" Sure. But again, when you actually talk to them, no one is defending keeping the names on unplayed value-less toons.
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For example, Gazran. Popped right out of the random name generator. That's a fine, strong name for a young ogre or troll. I deleted it, so it's still available if anyone wants it now. Go get 'em, Gaz! But back to why I think renames/deletes are a bad idea, I'm really curious about what names we're talking about here. I know, no one wants to actually post it because it's all OC DONUT STEAL stuff so I get the secrecy. But I find it highly unlikely people are just sitting on naked level 1 random, generic fantasy sounding names account after account. Shit like Aaragon should never see the light of day again if someone forgot that garbage years ago and that's the kind of stuff I think people sit on, at least if you look at the couple "WTS name" threads that pop up once in a while. And that's what I think people are in demand for. So that's why I just don't have a lot of sympathy for a rename/delete, I can't believe most people can't at least get something similar to what they want as long as it's some semi-original fantasy-ish sounding name unless it's some stupid reference or pun. | |||
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Look, I'm not a fan of the fiftieth dark elf named Drizzt. It was dumb on live, and it's dumb here. It also is jarring to anyone who sees it: it knocks you out of your stupid 20-year old elf sim fantasy world. But ...there's a vast spectrum of names, and Drizzt is only one end. I've got an Enchanter named Kalasiris who is on the other end. It is not an original name ... but it's from an ancient Greek novel that no one except Literature majors would ever read, so it might as well be: (virtually) no one will ever see it and petition me, and if they did the GMs might not even believe it's from a book. By your logic, if someone, me or anyone else, made a Kalasiris seven years ago, and never played him (or played him for only a few minutes), no one should ever be able to make a character on Green with the awesome name Kalasiris? I'm not trying to trick or argue with you here, but I'm asking is this really what you believe? It seems to me that the good kind of name, the ones no one has heard of and sound fantasy, are still a finite good. There's less of that good to go around for everyone if 7-year old toons no one plays deplete the stockpile. IF you agree with that on any level, and you're still against renames, then you have to believe there's a corresponding value to letting those names stay unused, which makes me wonder ... what's that value?
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I think the problem is people are getting real specific with what they want. When you want that name, and only that name, and that spelling of it, yeah, it's disappointing, especially if it's a level 1 character no one's ever seen. But I don't believe there's a shortage of names to the point where we should just delete or rename characters just because you happen feel disappointed that you didn't get specifically what you wanted. Quote:
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People view names of characters in games very different, some like to use new names all the time, some people want the same name they've used in all other games.
If there's an easy way to accommodate all people, I'm sure that's what most server admins will go for. That said; for blue server I don't think it would harm to delete any character with a total /played under 10 minutes. That should take care of any names sitting "reserved" and unused, without hitting bank mules and lvl 2+ Green is a new server, with new characters ... so it's only natural that all names should be up for grabs. If you have the same name on green as on blue, you wouldn't be able to merge "yourfavoritename" from green to blue without a name change anyway. Just for fun, I made a new char (on blue), pressed "random name" 3 times, removed 3 letter and ended up with "Nirmin" which feels like a decent name. Even with 1 mill+ names registered I'm sure there are some good names left. I'm more bugged by names like "Palediiin" than "Xorgizul", you would not wan't me in charge of the "character name black list" >:-) I've played on P99 since 2009'ish, I have 10+ chars over lvl 20 and my highest is lvl 52. Not everyone plays the game the same way, don't just assume your way is the "right way" to play EQ and not having a lvl 60 means you're not "serious"! | ||
Last edited by callemosen; 09-21-2019 at 05:44 PM..
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I would love to see the naming policy actually be enforced, only fantasy names.
No Truhmp Suhpporter or Beeg Cawk or Russel Crow. I voted no because the less horrible names available the better. | ||
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Guys, go make an account right now. It takes literally 5 seconds.
Then create 8 toons. Go for it! I'll wait. I just got Republic, Maid, Motherless and other stupid 'wordnames' that were available (just randomly tried a few words and bingo). Also got another 5 very easy to pronouce names under 6 characters. (ditto with names) This is just fake news cause you got like one stupid name you make a fixation on and you believe you could get it in a new fresh FTE race for names. people wanna go grab Jesus or Love or Death or i don't know? I've been wanting to name a toon Nausicaa forever and i'm kinda mad at the lad who took the name and never played the character. but honestly, whatthefuckever. there are still about ten gazillions names available, including ten billions of very fine ones. Stop whining and think about your name. If anything, I think it will filter through all the crap and joke names that are already taken on Blue and it's great. The name issue is a classic case of something that is only a problem in the head of people who didn't even try. Don't listen to the whiners Devs. focus your CSR time on much more important/relevent issues please ^^ the system you devised is fine and will make sure nobody has their reputation stolen, for those for whom it matters. for everyone else we will find kickass names next month np.
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