Naming Idea

I respectfully disagree that there is a relatively small selection to choose from. While I don't disagree that a fair number of the combinations are unsuitable I honestly feel the number of choices out there still number in the millions.

I think the real problem at the core of this issue is that sometimes people get tunnel vision about the name they want at the expense of good alternatives.

Not only that but if a person is dead set on a name why not try seeing if it's available in a different language. German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese the possibilities go on and on.

Coolio Wolfus leader of Coolio�s Crusaders on Union.

Tekna Logik leader of Tekna�s Tormentors on Defiant.

Creator of: Coolio's Tech Beacon Replacements

AE arc 402506, 'The Rise and Demise or Otherwise of Tekna Logik...'.

It is, but the 'Check Name' on the character selection page works fine.

The other day, I picked up 'Loam' for my Earth/Rad Controller.



And /unsigned.

Angel Red
"We're heroes. Fighting injustice is the thing we do." ~Rebel Scum

I appreciate the effort Tenzhi, Thirty-Seven and GreenFlame

Truth be told, I start every character these days with a search for a decent name and then see if I can design a concept around it. If you try to develope a concept first and then find a name, you are bound to be disappointed.

Also to be truthful, I ALWAYS choose 1-word names. Many will argue that therein lies the problem, but from my personal aesthetic paradigm, Superheroes are more pleasing with single or compound single-word names. Even though some may think I am complaining (which I am not), I have managed to collect quite a few decent super-hero names.
What IS dissappointing is the amount of time needed to spend in front of the character select screen trying to find the over-looked names. Time that I would rather spend IN-GAME.

So I guess that this thread will be /unsigned by myself just as the majority who have visited here. Thanks everyone for stopping by to share your views and good luck in-game

I've had it pop up with the 'name can't be checked at this time/service unavailable' message in both places, though it more often works for me from the character select screen (and then it works more often if I haven't already been to the one at the end of character creation and came back).

Of course, I rarely start with a name these days, so the end of character creation is where it would be most useful. I can't gripe too much about it, though. This game has one of (if not) the best character creators, and they seem to keep improving it. Any naming issues I run into are minor irritations at worst.

I better watch it, if I keep saying positive things like that I might blow some minds around here.

Fair enough. The ability to divine names will vary from person to person, not only due to differences in vocabulary, but also how one personally associates words with objects/people, as well as one's personal sense of aesthetics. I certainly can't fault a respectful disagreement on such a clearly subjective matter.

And kudos on making a plausible association out of "Armature Buttress". I am amused by it perhaps more than I should be, though it has me thinking along the lines of a robotic Elec/Warmace Tanker. But if he got Flight would he be a Flying Buttress?

Especially if they've already associated the name with the character in their mind. At that point, thinking of the character as a different name may be akin to thinking of an apple as an orange.

Never seemed to bother Spider-Man.

LEGION OF VALOR - Be a part of the Legend!

Given the hyphen in Thirty-Seven's own forum name, I took it that he was specifically referring to the . or ' nonsensically placed at the end of the name.

LEGION OF VALOR - Be a part of the Legend!

Thanks. I understood the point you were trying to make (that some names just don't work), but to me the name rolled nicely off the tongue and I hoped that by checking the definitions I might come up with a plausible concept to justify its use. I was very excited it worked out so nicely because I wouldn't have used it otherwise even tho I liked it. I feel if I couldn't justify the use of the name it would be like I was slapping you in the face just to be argumentative.

Happily I was able to make it work. The hardest part in creating this character was deciding which AT to use. I could have gone scrapper, tanker, or brute. As much as I think tanker would have been the most fitting heroic AT, I just don't enjoy playing tanks. So I was left with scrapper and brute. Here I felt concept wise brute fit better because fury kind of fits in with the idea of electric energy building up, but then real life stepped in and changed my mind.

I don't know if anyone remembers Saros on Virtue, but I had the good luck to be a member of the SG he was in when he still played the game back around I8. He was the player that had found the bug that let his elec/elec brute be created as a hero instead of a villain.

Anyway my first response after remembering Saros was that it might be disrespectful of the memory to make my own elec/elec brute, so I went with scrapper.


I have another character I occasionally play that has the rather unusual name
of "Tomato Can". While most people might think its stupid, those who are familiar with boxing and mixed martial arts will recognize it as an idiom for a scrub fighter that's considered an easy win and yet there have been some surprising upsets by these scrubs. The "Bayonne Bleeder" and James "Buster" Douglas come to mind. The former defeated Ali and the latter defeated Tyson.

Anyway the Tomato Can can be found sometimes fighting bad guys in his boxing outfit in Kings Row. I've had his exp turned off for a while now, because he seems to fit in, in that zone.

I'd think you'd need to have Stone in there somewhere for Flying Buttress.

Which reminds me of another method of getting a name. Incredibly Lame Puns.

Names I or my girlfriend have gotten with that method (A lot have bunny ears, but there's so many puns there):

Hare Bow (Emp/Archery defender)
A Hare Past Midnight (Warshade, repeatedly re-rolled)
Poke the Bunny (Spines/Regen scrapper)
Wind-blown Hare (Storm/Archery defender)

Originally Posted by Back Alley Brawler Did you just use "casual gamer" and "purpled-out warshade" in the same sentence?

Oh, I've got more than my share of those. Like this guy.

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Angel Red
"We're heroes. Fighting injustice is the thing we do." ~Rebel Scum