Green Naming Policy (Petition)

[Maker_Mayhem]

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

???

You don’t see how crazy that reads? This is a totally new server and yet ppl are expected to reserve their character name 10 years earlier on a different server?

I’m actually surprised this isn’t a larger issue to most of you. Anyone who’s tried to make a character in the last 2 years knows how big of a pain in the ass it is to find something decent that sticks. Rolling into a brand new server with a million+ reserved names just doesn’t make any sense to me.

+1 Evia

[Daud]

I'm super curious to hear some of these names people have been robbed out of (you know, since a lot of people seem to be referring to them as "their" names, I can only assume "robbed" is the correct term). I bet that I could slightly tweak most any semi-reasonable name through the name filter with some minimal and sensible changes, if it didn't go through outright, unless it was some stupid pop culture, video game character, lotr, bard/singer, gnome, or any other super shitty reference/pun that a thousand other nerds would immediately think of since that's my hunch a lot of these names people think they're gonna get freed up. And TBH I'd rather those names just stay dead and gone on unused characters.

[Nilstoniakrath]

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

I'm super curious to hear some of these names people have been robbed out of (you know, since a lot of people seem to be referring to them as "their" names, I can only assume "robbed" is the correct term). I bet that I could slightly tweak most any semi-reasonable name through the name filter with some minimal and sensible changes, if it didn't go through outright, unless it was some stupid pop culture, video game character, lotr, bard/singer, gnome, or any other super shitty reference/pun that a thousand other nerds would immediately think of since that's my hunch a lot of these names people think they're gonna get freed up. And TBH I'd rather those names just stay dead and gone on unused characters.

Trust me, most names are borderline annoying and stupid, all the more reason NOT to do a character wipe just to free them up for a new server. If you want to bitch, argue for a clean slate and not a wipe. But the same retards who think those names are cool, will fail to be reasonable on how to get those stupid and lame names.

[dwarf_cleric420]

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

Actually, I wouldn't mind if they let the names on Green be a fresh start, and independent of Blue 100%. BUT, they are going to merge Green into Blue eventually, so that is not possible.

That being the reality, my point is, DELETING characters on Blue just so someone can have that name on Green, is completely unacceptable. Character wipes are a drastic and serious step, some people have low level toons with a lot of plat and gear who are mules, and maybe they haven't been active for a while because Blue has become a bit toxic, but they will be back in a heartbeat once Green in launched. A character's name is, at the end of the day, irrelevant. Hence my comment that those who are pushing for a wipe just so they have a shot at some precious name are being reckless and selfish.

No one is pushing for a wipe of geared alts or bank mules.... Just the lvl 1s that haven't done shit except create a name and log out. There's thousands of these sitting on inactive accounts.

[Nilstoniakrath]

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

No one is pushing for a wipe of geared alts or bank mules.... Just the lvl 1s that haven't done shit except create a name and log out. There's thousands of these sitting on inactive accounts.

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

I think they should save names for any lvl 60 on blue. Those lvl 60 names can be re-created on green from the same account.

Wipe the rest.

This simultaneously eliminates banked names on ghost accounts AS WELL AS allow well known and established blue p99 players the ability to keep their identity, and names, of their main characters.

Just my 2cp

Actually, even if your 60, I would say if you don't have your epic yet, and BiS gear in all slots, those should be wiped too.

[Evia]

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

Actually, even if your 60, I would say if you don't have your epic yet, and BiS gear in all slots, those should be wiped too.

maybe wiping the chars is extreme, sure, but so is expecting to roll out a new server with 1 million+ names already taken.
You guys have kinda changed my mind on ONE part though...maybe deleting characters IS a bit extreme without more information taken into account.

So my NEW suggestion is exactly like my old one except rather then WIPE THE REST we simply don't let those names move onto the green server name base.
THEN the servers will carry on with names freed up on green, and everyone keeping their names on blue.

When the server merge happens we will end up with a huge issue of hundreds if not thousands of duplicate names. In order to combat this I would suggest the devs do a lvl 1 name purge on blue for characters that haven't been played in x amount of time. They can do this at any point during the 2~ years that green is active and separate from blue. Hell! they could come up with a better plan! but they'd have an ample amount of time to do so. Then when the merge happens you'll have far less conflicts with ppl having the same names, and the people that do end up having a naming conflict will be forced to carry a X or Z at the end of their name for the life of the character. This could also be a cool status symbol thing with the history of the resets! maybe all green chars get a X at the end...so when you see a char with an x at the end of it, you know they came from green. then when the next server launches after green (purple?) those chars get a Z added to the end of their name. So as blue gets older and older we get these little museum characters all repping their original server with their subtle last letter of their name.

I get it that this is a lot of work for something as insignificant as clearing a naming database, but I feel like there has to be a better option here.

Obviously no solution will make everyone happy but I'm just really hoping the devs re-think this one.

[bigjeff100]

I chose Athemis back in 1999 randomly for a gnome mage.. That name stuck with me through all video games, and nobody ever has it [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] for my alt? I just reversed it and swapped 2 letters [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Simetha!!!

Get creative!!! When in doubt, just spell your favorite name backwards haha!

[loramin]

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

Obviously no solution will make everyone happy but I'm just really hoping the devs rethink this one.

Honestly I have not heard a single person object to renaming level 1 toons who haven't been played in awhile and who have <5 pp and no No Drop items except from newbie zones. Heck, I haven't even heard anyone be against deleting such toons, or just renaming any level 1s that haven't been played in awhile.

I really think there's a true community consensus that we should at least go that far.

[soronil]

on twitch a few days back Rogean confirmed the plan is to purge the level 1s... I'm sure they will announce more details eventually before launch

[Daud]

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

Honestly I have not heard a single person object to renaming level 1 toons who haven't been played in awhile and who have <5 pp and no No Drop items except from newbie zones. Heck, I haven't even heard anyone be against deleting such toons, or just renaming any level 1s that haven't been played in awhile.

I really think there's a true community consensus that we should at least go that far.

I guess "compete consensus" is one way to describe a poll that is literally a dead 50/50 split.