Good character names are running out, huh?
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Posted on: 2010-01-20 08:53 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Unless they make it harsher it's not going to do much.
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Originally Posted by Red Valkyrja
Once again I will mention that during HeroCon, the Devs hinted at possibly running the name purge before GR goes live.
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I agree with you there. Below level 6 is not going to net much. Lets hope they use a scaling approach as has been suggested in one of the umpteen thread about this.
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Are we? I just picked up "Pinball Mistress" for a knockback-heavy storm/energy defender.|
Originally Posted by TheJazMan
I play on Virtue (mostly) and yes, we are running out of names.
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(For anybody interested, "Pinball Master" is still available, but "Pinball Wizard" isn't.)
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No way to tell until its done though
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Originally Posted by Wavicle
If not many names are freed up then noone is Helped, either.
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Umm, not sure I agree names are running out. I got Sub Sonic the other day and last week I got Doll Face, Black Amethyst and Killingzone and I still have a few more I like.
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It was harsher and it didn't do much. That's why it's down to what it is now.|
Originally Posted by LISAR
Unless they make it harsher it's not going to do much.
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And that's actually my point every time this comes along. Name purges free SOME names, but any illusions that "good" names are held by inactive accounts are just that - illusions. The first name purge under level 36 on everyone inactive for 90 days and more freed up a few names, but mostly under level 6. And people were shocked to find that the names they thought it would free up, it didn't. Short of making names non-unique, nothing will change.
I'm just trying to say that, even in the current situation, there is still hope if you really want it.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Actually, you can go off precedent and make a pretty good guess that, unless something major changed, it won't do much than the first time they ran it under 36, when it didn't do much.
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Originally Posted by Mr_Zek
No way to tell until its done though
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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I'd like to see the same naming policy used in Champions Online: character_name@global_name.
So long as your global name is unique problem solved. Everyone gets the name they want and it doens't put a damper on the creative vision they had in mind for their character.
Hate the @global like CO used. It absolutely ruins all chat in that game.
What they should do for the name purge is simple. If an account has not been active in over 3 years, purge the names lvl 40 and under and give them FREE RENAME TOKENS... for if they ever come back.
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I thought that didn't free up as many names as devs and players hoped it would.|
Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
Hate the @global like CO used. It absolutely ruins all chat in that game.
What they should do for the name purge is simple. If an account has not been active in over 3 years, purge the names lvl 40 and under and give them FREE RENAME TOKENS... for if they ever come back. |
I disagree with you about it ruining chat. It's no better or worse than trying to chat on CoX with the alpha numeric jargon that has become character names lately.
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They have never done waht I suggested.
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Originally Posted by Major_Glory
I thought that didn't free up as many names as devs and players hoped it would.
I disagree with you about it ruining chat. It's no better or worse than trying to chat on CoX with the alpha numeric jargon that has become character names lately. |
Was this dead long enough for this to be a Necro?
Either way, I just recently reserved Nuclear Arsenal for an upcoming DP/Rad. Was really shocked when I found it wasn't even taken on Test yet.
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I secured Hipshot for my DP on Virtue and I really have been uber lucky with character names so I can't complain too much. 
But I still think character_name@global_name is a great idea.
Just my two cents.
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Originally Posted by M_I_Abrahms
Was this dead long enough for this to be a Necro?
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On the other hand, something else that occurred to me about character names: I'd like to be able to use my OWN names more than once on a given server, i.e have more than one character by the same name on a particular server.
I've occasionally wanted to make identical characters with different powersets, to represent them having the versatility to change roles. Would also be nice (GR not withstanding) to have a character that can hop freely between red and blueside.
Where to find me after the end:
The Secret World - Arcadia - Shinzo
Rift - Faeblight - Bloodspeaker
LotRO - Gladden - Aranelion
STO - Holodeck - @Captain_Thiraas
Obviously, I don't care about NCSoft's forum rules, now.
Only read the first post, so no idea what is going on in the thread.
But sometimes when I'm really stuck I'll just pick random words from the dictionary. That is how I came up with the names Careful and Helpless Purple. Not especially great, but they work. Especially since Careful turned out to be my overly aggressive Warshade.
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My name is Ironblade and I disapprove of this message.|
Originally Posted by Major_Glory
I'd like to see the same naming policy used in Champions Online: character_name@global_name.
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That naming scheme stinks.
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All you do in CO for this is uncheck a checkbox not to show the "@GlobalName".. thought that was what everyone does there. Things look exactly as they do here in CoH.|
Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
Hate the @global like CO used. It absolutely ruins all chat in that game.
What they should do for the name purge is simple. If an account has not been active in over 3 years, purge the names lvl 40 and under and give them FREE RENAME TOKENS... for if they ever come back. |
They should go to this model so you can use any name I believe...and just set your own UI as you wish things to be seen.
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What happens when you see two people with the same name, then? Without global appended, how do you tell them apart? How do you tell their chat apart? A non-unique, global-appended naming system fails for the same reason all of those fail - they need to be unambiguous in all situations but visible in no situation at all, which is an oxymoron.
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Originally Posted by GreenPiranha
All you do in CO for this is uncheck a checkbox not to show the "@GlobalName".. thought that was what everyone does there. Things look exactly as they do here in CoH.
They should go to this model so you can use any name I believe...and just set your own UI as you wish things to be seen. |
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Seems like our already-existing color-coding scheme (an option you may not have turned on) would be imminently helpful in that regard.|
Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
What happens when you see two people with the same name, then? Without global appended, how do you tell them apart? How do you tell their chat apart? A non-unique, global-appended naming system fails for the same reason all of those fail - they need to be unambiguous in all situations but visible in no situation at all, which is an oxymoron.
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Besides, how often does that happen? I don't hear about it happening in CO, and I never really see people with similar names in the same area in CoX.
I'd gladly trade a little ambiguity for more naming options. Gladly. I mean, even if we didn't have some of the best UI people in the business to help us through this awful problem you describe, I'm a savvy interweb using guy. I think I could cope.
I preferred my First, Multi-names idea, but then what'retya gonna do?
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Except our already-existing colour-coding scheme works based off the ASCII of names, and two identical names would have the same sum of code digits. And if you alter it, then you end up yanking the system from under people. And even if you alter it, you still end up running against people with poor colour perception, poor monitor colour balance or just colours that look a lot alike. I have good colour vision and I still mix up the colours between cyan and teal, for instance. And even when I can tell between two colours right next to each other, I can't always tell which is which just by itself.|
Originally Posted by Johnny_Velocity
Seems like our already-existing color-coding scheme (an option you may not have turned on) would be imminently helpful in that regard.
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| Besides, how often does that happen? I don't hear about it happening in CO, and I never really see people with similar names in the same area in CoX. |
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I'd gladly trade a little ambiguity for more naming options. Gladly. I mean, even if we didn't have some of the best UI people in the business to help us through this awful problem you describe, I'm a savvy interweb using guy. I think I could cope.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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We've been here before, sammy, This is not always the case.
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The reasons everyone always complains that good names are gone is that they want Fire Man or Electro Lass, and those are OBVIOUSLY already taken. If they're taken and many, many people want them, then that results in many, many people having and using them. |
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I'll miss you all.
I always try to impart something about my characters powers when I choose a name ie I have a PB called Split Personality and a WS named Dual Personality a fire blaster called magna fly as he looks like a fly think you get my drift here never had to many problems getting names to fit so I would say with a little imagination plenty of names out there
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It's not always the case, but it's often enough the case to where it WILL spawn same names. That's the point. I don't want to deny people the names because they're bad, I just don't want ambiguity in the naming system.
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Originally Posted by Premonitions
We've been here before, sammy, This is not always the case.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Once again I will mention that during HeroCon, the Devs hinted at possibly running the name purge before GR goes live.
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