Names and cancelled Subscriptions

Hey all,

I am a little bored right now waiting for my work clothes to get out of the dryer and thought of something I forgot to post about a while ago.

I think there should be some kind of system that if your subscription is cancelled for a certain period of time, I would say about 6-12 months, that your characters names get changed so that other players that still want to play can have them.

It really sucks when I make a new character because it takes me an hour, literally, to think of a name because all the cool stuff is taken. For instance, all greek and roman god names are taken. Pretty sure I tried every single one of them.

So that is what I would like to be added to the game eventually. Not asap, but sometime in the future, 'cause right now would be a bad time to spend too much time with it 'cause we are pretty short on content already. :(

Eventually everyone is going to have plat farmer names if somethin' like this doesn't get implemented :D. Not anytime soon though. :p

There is my rant for a while. :)

Any others agree?

I think how they did it for the server merge would be good. If your account has been inactive for 1 year or more, your name gets switched to name-server, and the new player gets the name. You get a replace name token and everyone is happy. This should also apply to banned accounts as they will never be renewed

Don't agree.

There can be some circumstances where someone does have to leave playing games for awhile, but may come back later (armed forces, money situation, etc). They should not lose there character names.

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Originally Posted by boldarblood

Don't agree.

There can be some circumstances where someone does have to leave playing games for awhile, but may come back later (armed forces, money situation, etc). They should not lose there character names.

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good point, at least trial accounts then

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Originally Posted by boldarblood

Don't agree.

There can be some circumstances where someone does have to leave playing games for awhile, but may come back later (armed forces, money situation, etc). They should not lose there character names.

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very very true. 4-16 month deployments are common. No reason to pay the subscription for that time your fighting for your country. And to come back and have your characters renamed would suck.

I think only for trial account people, yes....
For people banned because of spamming yes.

for regular god-fearing elves, dwarves, etc, who paid and may come back, never.....well maybe after a one or two year wait.

Much better that they allow more letters in the name, god forbid an extra 10kb is used by the whole player base just to get a longer name.

I would rather they did that with trial accounts, in fact just delete any trial account over a year old.

Yes for trial accts. I'm tired of trying to name my characters Asdfsd and I'm unable to because a platfarmer spammer took it already and was banned.

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Originally Posted by ArkoHighStar

good point, at least trial accounts then

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Yes, that was my main point but forgot to mention it. Trial accounts should DEFINATELY loose the names if they aren't activated within a month or two.

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Originally Posted by boldarblood

Don't agree.

There can be some circumstances where someone does have to leave playing games for awhile, but may come back later (armed forces, money situation, etc). They should not lose there character names.

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I can totally understand that, but having your name just have -server added isn't that bad. Plus, I'm sure a free name change would actually be nice for someone that has been gone for a while and doesn't like their old names anymore. I can't imagine someone being that upset about it.

If you don't play, you should have to keep your name with Name-server or change it, it makes perfect sense. I don't know why anyone wouldn't agree that to be the right and fair way to go. Especially from someone in the military, I'm sure they would understand it the most.

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Originally Posted by Twerpp

Yes for trial accts. I'm tired of trying to name my characters Asdfsd and I'm unable to because a platfarmer spammer took it already and was banned.

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That reminds me I need to make a character named Asfatida and how much hate mail I get for being a spammer. ;)

I think after a certain amount of time has passed of account inactivity, perhaps 18 months, any names on the account should be made available to currently active accounts. I don't see why people who are not playing anymore should have priority over people who currently are paying and playing the game.

Whenever I cancel my accounts in any MMO I never assume that my characters will still be there when/if I can back. After all, the characters didn't belong to me while I payed for the game; once I cancel the account I have even less right to complain.

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Originally Posted by xanvar

very very true. 4-16 month deployments are common. No reason to pay the subscription for that time your fighting for your country. And to come back and have your characters renamed would suck.

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I'd worry more about coming back at all than having fictional characters on an role playing online game renamed. Sure it would suck if you came back and found that, but it would probably be worse to not come back at all, come back missing parts you actually liked, etc. If you want to worry about renaming after a deployment, worry about the wife changing her name. Like her last name.

FWIW I agree that renaming is a bad idea, but there should be a cutoff. Some toon names are still taken two years plus from launch.

A better way would be allowing dupes by associating toons with a database numerical value that associated them also with the account. You could have dozens of identically named toons, but the game management would be able to see a unique number in their logs for each that we would not.

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Originally Posted by suitepotato

I'd worry more about coming back at all than having fictional characters on an role playing online game renamed. Sure it would suck if you came back and found that, but it would probably be worse to not come back at all, come back missing parts you actually liked, etc. If you want to worry about renaming after a deployment, worry about the wife changing her name. Like her last name.

FWIW I agree that renaming is a bad idea, but there should be a cutoff. Some toon names are still taken two years plus from launch.

A better way would be allowing dupes by associating toons with a database numerical value that associated them also with the account. You could have dozens of identically named toons, but the game management would be able to see a unique number in their logs for each that we would not.

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Well as a person that has had to cancel his account several times for deployments I know I am not worried about it while I am there but it would be a big frustration to have to rename my characters when I got home. As important as a wife or something no, but sometimes its the little things that make you want to throw your computer.

My 2 cents.

A name don't make a person good, a person makes a name good.

Call yourself Slimesalad for all I care, if you conduct yourself in a respectfull manner Slimesalad will be on my friends list.

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Originally Posted by Twerpp

Yes for trial accts. I'm tired of trying to name my characters Asdfsd and I'm unable to because a platfarmer spammer took it already and was banned.

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LMAO this made my day

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Originally Posted by Andora

I would rather they did that with trial accounts, in fact just delete any trial account over a year old.

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Agreed.

Does anyone know what Turbine's current policy is?

No and yiou shouldnt be able to use the greek and roman gods anyways proably blocked its not a very orginal idea I seldom have trouble making a name and can always come up with something new that I like

Still think it's a good idea - just like back here. ;)