Zekiran_Immortal

Indeed. So, when you need "fgdbtstlab23" or "goldfarmerme" ... I'm sure they'll be open

I refered to "most of the rest of us in this game with qualifiers". Not "everyone but you".

Some things are not meant to "help" but to restrict. What you want won't work to help anyone get anything. It will in fact encourage people to just "not" be original. I find that idea abhorrent.

If a name is taken, it's taken. Move on. I dont' care if it's on an account that was opened 5 years ago and played for 20 minutes. If that character is above level 6, formerly level 30 since the first purge was enacted, that character should be there wholly intact for its owner should they decide to come back.

I DO think that a name generator IS a good idea. Fortunately, there are already dozens of them online. Hell I've MADE some. I know they're there.

That part of the idea isn't necessary to put into the game, because it's simply put already existing outside the game. It's something that can easily be located while you're there looking at the blank area for the character's name.

It came up enough earlier on in the game - as in 3 years ago or longer - that the devs MADE that script and RAN it.

And guess what: it did NOTHING. It freed names all right, but *no one needed them*. Either the accounts were still active, or the characters were named originally enough that no one else would choose or create that name. That's why when it was run again later it was made to be level 6 instead of much higher, and still the same results - no one needed those names. The delusion that some folks seem to be under, that this name purge could some how be of use to you looking for those insanely common names is amazing to me. They're common. They're already out there being used by people who ACTUALLY PLAY the game.

The number of people who LIKE the naming system on CO - this very thing you mention here - is miniscule compared to those who have already stated they don't. It's only mentioned here as a last resort, by the FEW people who have issues with names here. Remarkably few people, in fact, have thought of this as a "first option". More just want to have their unique snowflake common name, hell or high water, regardless of whether someone else already wanted it.

Just because YOU have a hard time, and maybe 2 or 3 other people a month maybe, does NOT indicate that this is an issue that bothers the huge lion's share of the gamers here.

I know of no one who's ever left the game over a name issue. None. Do you know one personally? Are you one? Don't think so.

Non unique naming is a *hassle* of unbelievable proportion, and would piss off way more people than it would ever help.

Rename tokens don't sell like hotcakes for the same reason that the name purges don't run more often. The data mining indicated that it wasn't being made useful AT ALL. It's only ever been run TWICE that I know of. They do tell us when they're going to run it, usually along with a reup weekend to allow people who want to keep those names, even if they're not on an active account at the moment, to do so if they really want to.

And it has had *no effect*. If it was really an issue, a tangible, real issue, those names would be freed up left and right, and you'd be happy. But it's not. The names you want are on characters who meet the level and activity restrictions, so you are out of luck.

www.reference.com is free. Go use it.

Oh god I know. Mine is also a 77 edition, with the red and black cover? Really great book. You'd think I would have it memorized, with the amount of stuff I name. It's not just for here: it's online on Deviantart, for wolves, horses, characters in my rpg world, elves, soul-names for elves, pets, mounts...

Yes, I do.

What they want is to have the same "great name" that many others have wanted.

Only one of us gets that "great name".

To me that merely means that the name wasn't so great if I thought of it *second*. Or *eighth*. Or *twentieth*. It means to me: something else will make MY character stand out where that one might not.

People want *common*. But this game is about anything BUT commonality. It's about originality, difference, color, amazing combinations. Names should logically follow that.

How is "coming up with a real good name that isn't like all the others out there" "settling"?!

Look: your idea for a name was not yours to start with. Obviously - if it's already taken then do something different.

We've offered repeatedly to help out, and actually gotten some really good names out of it for folks. If YOU don't want to have a better, new, actually-original name... that's not the game's issue it is in fact yours.

Get that thesaurus. Why? Because it'll help you in the real world too. If you can't get your mind around using a different term for "red" or "fire" or "ice" or "hitting"... the problem is not with the game. It's with your lack of knowledge of the huge variety of words out there available for use.

Example:

I want to name a character "Fire Strike". But it's taken! Oh noes!

What about "Fire Strikeout" "Flamestrike" "Flickerhitter" "Luminescent POW" ... it just keeps going but they all basically mean the same thing: fire strike.

To me, and to most of the rest of us in this game with literally hundreds of original characters on our accounts, "settling" does NOT mean 'having to think up a new different name'. It means "having the same dull commonly used name as 90 other people already thought of". THAT is lame, imho, THAT is settling.

Is your name John Smith? Why can't it be Jalil Shakar? In the game, you have the CHOICE. If YOU choose to want the name "john smith", ... well, join the ranks of all the others - but be warned that it's just gonna be "john smith 12" for you.

How original.

Too late: someone else came up with it first. Start over. Think OUTSIDE your narrow box, please? If all you want is to be thought of as the same guy as 77 other people with that same moniker... well.. *shrug* Gotta be slightly more original in this game, and that's a good thing.

I'm guessing Tuter means "when we got ragdoll physics".

But like I've said... I asked them about it at the comic con, and they told me what was wrong with it and that it's NOT completely dead... so someday, we may see this feature there.

I too would like it there, though in the game would suit me fine too, I like knowing those things.

I'd like to know too. As always, we can brainjam to see if there are better - less obvious, or more available - names right here for you.

The only name I didn't get was actually one I realized later wasn't the one I *intended* to get, Dream.Weaver with the . in it. But she should have been Dream Walker, which I still don't know if it's available or not, either way I don't play her much anyway... But she IS one of my oldest real-world created characters. I'd give that name up with the dot and all, if someone asked, but someone would have to be pretty desperate to have *the same name as however many others* out there... Rather see something unique.

Considering that a "weekend" is usually 2 days, that's pretty good?

Who would suspect Nemesis has put his brain into a female body? Now THAT is something I don't think he's done in the game, has he?

They don't have to be on hide. They can simply already be on teams, instanced, or even zoning.

Your "29 people" is fantasy. Are you playing at 2 AM pacific time on redside? OIC. I mean... seriously. Flawed math is flawed. 29 people is 3+ full teams. All you need is ONE more person to make a "team" - you don't need 8 person teams 100% of the time, seriously.

Subscriptions have been up since 2 issues ago. New games come out and are in beta; school has started, the biggest "threat" to this game is "real life".

So,.... no. It's not that they need to be hiding. You just need to learn to form a team.

Sure, Blasters go to the Hospital a lot. But they have to keep rushing out to rejoin their team... It all goes by so fast.