Freedom and Name Proliferation
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Ad Astra,
Posted on: 2011-06-23 09:18 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Originally Posted by Moonlighter
(Plus I like hearing players views on whether they consider naming to be an issue and their thoughts on solving it.)
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Very well if you really want to know I have never had an issue naming a character. Well that's a little misleading I have issues coming up with a name to use however once I find a name it has never been taken.
I'm a firm believer that the only solution to the naming "problem" should be creativity.
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Except now there is (hopefully) a huge influx of new players taking names so the conditions of the topic have changed.
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Originally Posted by Ad Astra
Well, honestly, if that was the reason for this thread - there are tons of other threads on the topic of "all the good names are taken by slacker, no-good trial accounts" where you can see that discussion over and over and over and over...
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You can turn that around though. The Djinn (I'd probably call him Djimm |
Originally Posted by BrandX
Maybe the idea of playing a djinn whose master ordered them out to fight crime is just laaaaame to people who came here to play a Super Hero ala Marvel and DC vein (as the game hyped itself up to be in the beginning).
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) fights crime on his own time when he's not granting wishes to his master. I'm with the superhero/villain crowd on this one though. Unless the character concept calls for it (like Olivia Onyx: Earth/Earth Dominator with crystal animations colored black) I tend to have Superhero names.
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I'm with you SilverAgeFan! And I agree it's high time this game went to a non-unique naming scheme. When trying out the competition, that's the one thing I felt they did better. It was a real joy to get the name I wanted with no muss, no fuss. When making a new character in this game, it really can feel like jumping through hoops to get something that sounds good enough and is available. That's just not fun!
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Originally Posted by SilverAgeFan
That's fine if that floats your boat. But some of us quite enjoy those Silver Age conventions. The OP was simply and clearly stating that this is what they too enjoy and prefer about super hero identities.
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