Kai

The process of a name purge has been not that the names are taken from all characters is one poof instant, its that they are made free if someone tries to use them, so the impact to non subscribing customers isn't a full scale zero account of no names.

I don't honestly think the numbers of inactive accounts returning after 2 years that would not have come back without their names makes any impact to NCSoft as a whole, where the release of abandoned names would cause a very positive reaction of the paying playerbase, much like the quality of life additions in I19 of combined trams/ferry. Most returning players are very likely to be trying new powersets which require new names.

But, that sort datamining could only be done by NCSoft. I don't believe anyone really expects that NCSoft is reading this forum and going 'wow, now why didn't we think of that?', just hoping that maybe they'll take the time to realize it might be in their interest to look into it.

The term 'problem' applies to only a few people's opinions in this thread. It seems most of us stand on the following evidence:

1)There are a significant number of abandoned names(note that is just names, no qualifier on what kind of names) on long dormant accounts
2)NCSoft has run purges before and claimed it was simply running a(already written at this point) script
3)At a certain point(which most are feeling is about 2 years) no manner of bonuses, free weekends, or other incentives is going to cause past subscribers to return

Therefore there is no good, clear argument why NOT to do a name purge. Think of it as recycling. There may or may not be a finite supply of new plastic, but that doesn't preclude recycling the old plastic that no one cares about.

Well see, that's a great line, but here's the thing. I have 27 alts. 3 have second choice/altered names because the names I wanted were globalless. 2 have them because their first choice names belong to globals who I got confirmation from people have been gone since ED. So, that's 5 names that a policy of 2 year inactivated would free up, from the experience of 1 player. Some of them I wouldn't pay the $10 to do a name change now, some I would, but even if I didn't grab the name, they are good names that someone could be playing and right now aren't even waiting for the right powers or something, they're just plain collecting dust.

/getglobalname will return the global if there is one, nothing if not, the name you typed if its not a taken name
/getlocalname will return the current character a global is on

Oh I have found good names, but would I like to have Byakko and Darkwave (globalless names) instead of Bya-ko and Dark-wave? Heck yeah. Some character concepts just demand a particular name and it kinda sucks to know that its not even being used out there, its just sitting and collecting dust.

I'd be fine with 2 years really, but the thing that does bug me most is the globalless names. That's like you haven't logged in once...not even during a free reactivation....in like 4 years.

I believe it comes from the point BrandX brought up. If you seriously want it to be a part but not the focus of an actual roleplay character with personality, don't treat it as something to be 'tagged', then you're just really calling attention to it. Lots of people want to be known as a Roleplayer or as an ERPer or No Roleplaying so they tag characters that way, the only possible reason to tag a character that way is for ERP, otherwise if you are trying to have a serious character it shouldn't matter that much.

Ye Olde Live Action Project to the rescue!

Wyld Fyre, aka Jae Smith - Jewel Staite


Terra Aureus - Rebecca Romijn


Dark-wave, aka Lina Pearson - Parminder Nagra


BlackRadiance, aka Roxy Acetylene - Charlize Theron


Miss Miho, aka Miho Kurokawa - Asami Abe


Farrah Templaria - Veronica Ferres


Kyle Rymes - Zac Efron


Valerie Vincent - Roselyn Sanchez

Appreciate anime/manga art? Never :7
Feel free to take a crack at.... *spins the wheel of alts*

Psiamese, psionic saboteur and thief by night, innocent personal assistant and elective gene modification success story of Crey's VP of Genetic Engineering in the Rogue Isles by day. Crey denies any knowledge of after hours activities that may or may not be against competing companies and have nothing to do with her unusual amount of discretionary bonuses...

That's supposed to be a midriff length white dress shirt. Eyes are blue, like siamese cats.

Or the quintessential Kai whose notes are in the sidebar next to existing art at http://eris-kai.deviantart.com/favourites/1374094

Some of us appreciated the hard work that was put into not butchering perfectly good ATs and powers just for the sake of them making a few people really mad about not being able to beat up other people in PvP with them. Splitting effects was a Very Good Thing™. If nothing else, the guy actually looked at numbers instead of caving to the whine of players with self entitlement issues, and that was great.

You can stalk Cape shows and draw people as much as you want, CR, we approve of that sort of thing ;7

We at The Cape Radio approve of stalking artists

Heh, when I find them I commission them and post up the results here

windriderx23/vest (lines/color)
rhardo
artauxeo
paneseeker

AE is actually usually the best way to go, as not only you can write arcs, but you can build the custom character and ship them off to SGmates/friends who can use them to write their own arcs so you might not actually know Nemesis A kidnapped Friend B's cousin, only that Friend B thinks something is wrong and wants your help to solve it (through an AE mission).

Very simple. Here you have all the level 50s who have been accumulating massive amounts of influence for years and nothing worth spending it on. You toss a respec that gets them more powers. Yes, Salvage A shouldn't normally cost 500k but if you have 75mil, who cares, buy it it anyways, so artificially supported equilibrium.

Pick an oufit, Jae loves Christmas and gets a new one every year :7 Sadly never screenshotted '05

Welcome back! For arcs, as always, go play Astoria in D Minor. During the day. In a well lit room. With company. Cheshire made one hell of a creepy story and I like to shill it

Art of the east/west team that will kick your villain a**

Blackstar (technically Blackstar II) - http://paneseeker.deviantart.com/#/d33us1w
Byakko - (technically Bya-ko) - http://paneseeker.deviantart.com/#/d33poz8

He's open for commissions, check him out!

Thanks to all the Vets, especially Coast Guard and National Guard who are forgotten so often when people think about the military. If you are in the donating/thankful mood today, Fisher House is a foundation that helps families of vets be close to them in when they are in the hospital, or Google your local Operation Stand Down, events and groups that help homeless, unemployed, and disenfranchised vets connect with the community and get a hand up.

I generally don't use hide, but I have been more on occasion lately due to the sheer number of random people that don't bother to check the LFT flag before asking if I want to team, or more oddly, if I want to join their S/VG, its possible.

Artauxeo found my CoH galleries and offered a discounted commission as he was just starting with the idea of private commissions as long as I helped spread his availability and art out to the community, I gave him full rein to do whatever he liked with Kai so that is all his choices based on my desciption posted on dA of Kai and previous art He simply blew me away with that and now I'm searching my couch for change to get more pieces done!