Unobtanium?
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sounds like Ubuntanium : Not so rare. No so tough. And in an ugly shade of brown, commonly known as the color of a vet's fore-arm. |
Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
Unobtanium?
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| Lets say you had a character that had bones made out of something like Adamantium but using adamantium linked names is so unoriginal. If you look hard enough there is an alternative that everyones overlooked. |
Adamantibia?
But seriously, there are still plenty of names available. It's just all the easy ones like 'Freedom's Hero' or 'Shield of Angels' are probably taken by the people before you.
But don't despair!
Sometimes the search for a name can result in something so surprising you can hardly believe it.
For example:
I recently obtained the name Crystal Witch for an ice/kinetic controller. Surprised? I was.
Another name I grabbed recently? Necrobiologist.
No ****. This name really was available for my necromancy/pain mastermind.
Most surprisingly since that name was mentioned in a webcomic.
THERE ARE STILL NAMES OUT THERE PEOPLE!
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PS: to the original poster, (if you haven't already left this thread already, satisfied at a successful trolling. Not that I'm accusing you. Just, y'know, just in case you have stopped paying attention to this thread.)
Ahem. Which server was this where you couldn't find the name?
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PPS: As it turns out both of the previous names I listed as 'easy' turned out to be free on the Virtue server. Let's say Hammer and Black King instead.
Eastern Standard Time (Australia)
is 15 hours ahead of
Eastern Standard Time (North America)
which is 5 hours behind
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Sadly yes, there are only about a few dozen word and letter combinations left, across all servers. A few of them left are listed below:
Painful Itch
ItsRainingMan
Captain Slippery
Mr. Failure
I Love Mud
Gramblesnoot
Broken Toe
MarkTwainMan
Kdkjrsfgwert
DirtyKnees
Xuuydy
iiiiiiiiiiiiir
So go ahead and bite the buillet and learn to revel in your uniquely named character iiiiiiiiiiiiir - it's quite a distinctive name!
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I have Rouge Angle of Satin on Champion. Still don't know what to do with it.
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Originally Posted by Eek a Mouse
I have
Satin's Minion Fallen Angle Rouge Demon Hunter |
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Originally Posted by Demobot
I have Rouge Angle of Satin on Champion. Still don't know what to do with it.
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What, Rogue Angel of Satin was taken? |
Originally Posted by Demobot
I have Rouge Angle of Satin on Champion. Still don't know what to do with it.
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I think name generators are a good idea when you can't think of one:
http://www.seventhsanctum.com/index-name.php
37 lvl 50s: 3 Brutes, 2 Stalkers, 2 Tankers, 7 Masterminds, 2 Scrappers, 3 Blasters, 3 Controllers, 3 Corruptors, Peacebringer, 2 SoA (Crab, Bane), 3 Defenders, Widow, 3 Dominators, Warshade, Fortunata
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20 Characters?!?! I'm at 90+ and counting.... Perhaps you angered someone if they'll only let you have 20....
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Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
Well, there is a limit, considering we're only allowed 20 characters and only one may be a special character. But the limit to good names is absurdly high.
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I just picked up Holly Go-Weirdly for a mind controller on Virtue (snapped straight from the MST3K short, "Design for Dreaming", about a girl in a 30 minute hallucination about a car design convention...one of the best shorts evar).
On Virtue, no less. I thought that one would be gone.
Trust me, names are still there.
Currently playing:
The Domestic: Broom/WP
Shadowhex: Dark Control/Dark Affinity
Defenestration Lass: Grav/Kin
"See, this is what happens when you have to shove all this stuff into your pockets: it's easy to misplace a suborbital warhead." -Arcanaville, on how crowded our power trays are getting lately
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Yeah! And all of my characters are special, not just one of them. |
Originally Posted by Madadh
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6000+ levels gained and 8 level 50's
Hello, my name is Soulwind and I have Alt-Itis.
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Eveantium?
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Originally Posted by New Dawn
The harder it is to get a name the less likely someone else somewhere will have it. I had to recently rethink a name for one of my characters and have found one that's somehow been missed by others.
Lets say you had a character that had bones made out of something like Adamantium but using adamantium linked names is so unoriginal. If you look hard enough there is an alternative that everyones overlooked. |
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Originally Posted by Alexandria2000
I just picked up Holly Go-Weirdly for a mind controller on Virtue (snapped straight from the MST3K short, "Design for Dreaming", about a girl in a 30 minute hallucination about a car design convention...one of the best shorts evar).
On Virtue, no less. I thought that one would be gone. Trust me, names are still there. |
I prefer Rex Dart: Eskimo Spy!
I can't believe I forgot my favorite naming tactic: Think outside the box. Think way outside the box. Come up with something so strange that no one would have thought of it before. Examples:
Tik Taq Toe - While on the surface it looks like intentional mispelling, it's actually taken from the name of a Warhammer Lizardman special character, Tiktaq'To. Lizardman names are great alternate spellings for phrases. Others include Itzi Bitzi and Sokitoomi.
Red Ones Go Faster - Name given to one of my Superspeed characters. The name comes from the Ork belief that a vehicle with a red paint job will out perform a similar vehicle that is painted a different color.
Just For The Halibut - I used this old pun as a character name just last night for my "fish-turned-villain" character.
Robotic Pirate Ghost - One of my friends heard the phrase "Robotic Pirate Ghosts" while playing a video game. He told me about it the next day and it become a running gag between our little group of friends. So I like to use that name in video games.
Some of my recent ones (within the past few months, on Virtue I might add)
Necromentalist
Mender Mobius
Cyberus
Cadavelier
My wife has recently made
Lapilla
Immolara
Mave Banespell
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Originally Posted by eltonio
This is over the top mental slavery.
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Ban-worthy names currently still actually available on Freedom:| Lets say you had a character that had bones made out of something like Adamantium but using adamantium linked names is so unoriginal. If you look hard enough there is an alternative that everyones overlooked. |
Wolver Reen
Wolferina
Wolferneener
Earth-2 Wolverine
Weapon Ecchs (little Forbush Man homage here)
Logan's Run
Trademark Infringer
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I haven't ever had that hard of a time coming up with names. I have scored some good ones over the years.
Mind Fracture - Fortunata
Chemotherapy - Emp/Rad Def(deleted this one)
Impartial - SS/Inv Brute (waiting on GR)
Frost Arc - Ice/Elec Blaster
Knight of the Dead - Tank
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Just an FYI that name isn't bannable because it's a wolverine rip-off, it's bannable because it's a copyright infringment of the classic Sci-Fi movie Logan's Run.|
Originally Posted by Doc_Hornet
Ban-worthy names currently still actually available on Freedom:
Logan's Run. |
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That is a title of a movie and isn't covered by copyright.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Just an FYI that name isn't bannable because it's a wolverine rip-off, it's bannable because it's a copyright infringment of the classic Sci-Fi movie Logan's Run.
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Yes it is. The GM's err on the side of caution and have genericed characters with movie title names for copyright/trademark violation.
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Originally Posted by spaceninjax
That is a title of a movie and isn't covered by copyright.
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Interesting, seeing as how the US Copyright office says otherwise. Titles can be trademarked, but it wouldn't be infringement unless they reference the movie in the bio.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Yes it is. The GM's err on the side of caution and have genericed characters with movie title names for copyright/trademark violation.
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FW was using the term "characters" to refer to the limit we have (20) in a toon's name. He knows that a player can have MANY more than 20 toons. |
Originally Posted by Madadh
20 Characters?!?! I'm at 90+ and counting.... Perhaps you angered someone if they'll only let you have 20....
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The Copyright office doesn't work for NCSoft. The GM's generic names so the company can show coutrs that they do indeed make every effort to enforce copyright/trademarks, and that they are in fact more strict than the law requires. |
Originally Posted by spaceninjax
Interesting, seeing as how the US Copyright office says otherwise. Titles can be trademarked, but it wouldn't be infringement unless they reference the movie in the bio.
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No the law doesn't require them to generic each and every possible violation. They recognise the fact that it is impossible for them to catch them all, so they only need to show that they take action when they become aware of a possible violation.
So yes the GM's will generic names you don't think are a violation. They also have an appeals process you can use if you think they were overzealous in their decision.
Now back on topic.
Yes, there are plenty of names available for people that aren't lazy and/or uncreative.
No, the vets didn't take all the good names 5 years ago, because those same vets aren't having any problems coming up with new names for the characters they are currently creating.
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Originally Posted by Eric Nelson
FW was using the term "characters" to refer to the limit we have (20) in a toon's name. He knows that a player can have MANY more than 20 toons.
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I think Madadh was being facetious.
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