SG name change tokens - PLEASE

I know this horse is dead and has been beaten many times over, but ...

Please give us the ability to buy rename tokens for SG's. I'm not asking for free unlimited name changes or anything, just the ability to purchase ONE through the Paragon Market or NC Store, or wherever.

This does't seem like too much to ask, does it?

I like this idea a well.

Since they implemented the Super Leader rank and officially made it the defacto owner of an SG and everything it possesses they eliminated any other claims other SG members used to have. So this should be possible.

People have been suggesting some way to rename SGs for years now.

As Forbin_Project mentioned it seems very strange that they haven't done anything about this considering we now have the red star "super leader" position. Back before there was a single person in charge of a SG I could see where it may have been hard to determine who had absolute authority. But now that the Devs have changed things to make a single person the top boss it should be straightforward to allow that person total authority over changing a SG name.

We already know the Devs can change SG names if necessary because there have been several that were edited for being rude/vulgar. All we need is some mechanism to allow a SG superleader to do the same thing. If the Devs are worried that someone may do something bad with that ability then they could simply put some kind of timer on it that would allow a SG to change its name like only once a month or some-such to prevent overt griefing. Most people only want to change a name once to fix a spelling mistake or to re-launch an old group - that's all we really need out of this.

I could go for this. I made a single-alt SG at one point, and gave it an appropriate name...but then I added several other characters on the same server, and now it's...less appropriate. I'd love to be able to change the name now, even if it costs me a bit.

I'm so glad I'm not the only person who wants this. Like Laz, I would pay to do so. Sometimes people inherit SG's but either don't like the name, or the theme changes, or whatever. No reason to either disband the SG and lose all the prestige or suffer with a name that doesn't exactly fit.

I would love to be able to rename one of my SG's.

/signed.

Same deal as most here. Sometimes things change, and it would be nice for the person in charge to be able to rename the group as appropriate. Give it a "cool-down" time (i.e. once every three months), make it a purchasable token, whatever you like. I would just like the option.

I misspelled my sg and didnt notice till it was pretty built up. I would very much like to rename it.

Yep, this should be on the table ASAP... If I'm not mistaken it was hinted at being plausible (maybe even 'possibly upcoming'?) not long ago in a Con/Web video or post iirc.

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I would also like this. Over time, things in game change, toons change, people change.

Imagine a kid 15 years old beginning to play this game back in 04. Now, he'd be 22. Odds are whatever "Uber' name he came up with then, he's changed, and likely he'd want to change things up.

It's really not too much to ask.

Pay for it? Why? It's nothing more complicated than a global name change.
I'd say you get one change every 2 years or so. Make it another vet reward.


Paragon Points, you say? I'llworry about those when they go live.

Maybe they can make the name changeable via /petition from the SG's Super Leader?

/Signed. Should have happened ages ago.

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What happens when a SG Super Leader buys one of these supposed SG rename tokens while they are a Super Leader then for some reason doesn't try to use it until they are no longer Super Leader? Why would a non Super Leader be able to hold onto one of these tokens? There's all these "what-if" problems they'd have to deal with trying to make a SG rename something that's related to money and/or the rename token concept.

You've got to remember that the ability to rename a SG is never going to be as wide-spread or common as a typical character rename. There's really no point in the Devs trying to "institutionalize" it as a fully-fledged rename token that's going to make them any serious money at all. I'd be surprised if this feature, whatever form it takes, was ever used more than a few hundred times total. If this feature -ever- happens it's going to be done in a way that's far simpler and takes the least amount of Dev effort to accomplish. They aren't likely going to make a whole new type of token for it or change any GUIs. A command line command only usable by a Super Leader on a simple timer fits the bill perfectly.