Why?
Didn't happen to me, didn't do it to anyone else... but the thread makes an assumption (see the "culprit" and "usurped" phrasing) that it was done deliberately to target someone. Someone may have actually *wanted* that specific name and not known/cared about the "big name" - since they have no idea (and/or don't care) that person exists.
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Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Why?
Didn't happen to me, didn't do it to anyone else... but the thread makes an assumption (see the "culprit" and "usurped" phrasing) that it was done deliberately to target someone. Someone may have actually *wanted* that specific name and not known/cared about the "big name" - since they have no idea (and/or don't care) that person exists. |
For example, I found the name "Matterhorn" free and decided to take it for a concept that I haven't fully formed yet, but which will have something to do with stone and ice. I thought the name was cool, but I'm not so attached to it that if someone came along and mentioned that their global ID was Matterhorn, and they had a Matterhorn character on most other servers, I'd be willing to consider trading it, or giving it up outright.
That said, there are now three name threads in this forum, and that's probably two too many. We should maybe start a single "Exalted Name Watch" thread, and get it stickied. Then everyone who wants can post there what names they got, and what name they were hoping for, but couldn't get.
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Most of the time that will be the case, but in troll-rich drama-thirsty Virtue RP land, this is a golden opportunity to try to upset people you've got a grudge with. According to a mutual friend, the current Exalted holder of my main's not exactly common name (Androgyne) grabbed both that name and that of a friend (Black Starbeam) before he even claimed his own.|
Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Why?
Didn't happen to me, didn't do it to anyone else... but the thread makes an assumption (see the "culprit" and "usurped" phrasing) that it was done deliberately to target someone. Someone may have actually *wanted* that specific name and not known/cared about the "big name" - since they have no idea (and/or don't care) that person exists. |
This is someone neither of us has said a word to in over two years (with a literal one-word exception I can think of on my part), someone we aren't friends with and don't like because of his past antagonizing via global channel and forums, and neither name is of the "must-have" variety. It's just a deliberate attempt to spoil someone else's fun.
At least in the case of one person I know who grabbed a couple names of other player's mains (not something I approve of, though I've certainly laughed about it), he's not operating out of genuine malice but looking for lulz, and I imagine after he has them he'll free the names for those who actually want to play their mains on Exalted in some form. I, on the other hand, can probably rest assured I'll never see the name.
Ultimately it's not a big deal for me. I'd like to have "my" name in case I decide to go to Exalted for any temporary reason, but I've got too much time invested in my groups on Virtue to want to move, and I have my names where they matter. It's just a staggeringly petty move from a disturbingly obsessed troll, so yeah, it has happened.
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And then what? We form a lynch mob and go after the culprit and string him up? I"m not sure how this would help. It is easy enough to find the global name, if you wanted to contact them. And if this is someone who is camping on a name just to grief, why would he or she even play that character?
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Originally Posted by Aquila_NA
I think it would be great if anyone and everyone who has had a name "usurped" would post it here and if the whole community actively kept an eye out for the "culprit/s".
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Never mind.
Claiming rights to a name just, because it's your global or just, because you've had a character with that name for a long time on another server or even multiple server seems a bit misguided.
I can see someone thinking they have the right to the name, but there's not actually anything that gives them the right to that name unless the rest of the community allows it.
This is where subjective views on this differ greatly. I personally dislike reserving names, which I know a ton of people did when this server became live.
I know plenty of people don't even plan to play on this server, but they still made characters just to take up names.
Is that ok? Yeah, I guess it is since there isn't anything stopping them. Does everyone like it? No, but oh well we can't do much about it.
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