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Yeah, Time shifter is pretty popular...time related names are pretty popular...must because of the new set.
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Originally Posted by Bubbawheat
That's pretty annoying. I would guess that I'm not that high profile, though I never have and never will create a character named "Bubbawheat" so I didn't check that. I did get "Burnt Matchstick", but I did not get "Time Shifter" but I don't seriously think that one is a name squatter as it's a time-related name that I originally had to check 4 or 5 servers before I found one where it was available.
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Not surprised at all. I'm sure many people saw the $3 sale of the game as a way of camping 12 names very cheaply.
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You shouldn't let people get under your skin like that. I'm going to go out on a limb that the person that grabbed "Arcanaville" wasn't thinking that would be an excellent name for a beam rifle corruptor.|
Originally Posted by Westley
It's one thing if my name was something generic like "Hero Dude". But this is obvious intentional harassment. How many "philotic" characters do you see out there? It's pretty obvious that this was on purpose solely for the purpose of getting me upset.
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Still, it did prompt me, upon reflection, to grab Arcanaville on every other server. And on Exalted, I just decided to grab "Arcana Prime." There, and everywhere else except on the one server that apparently someone decided to use it.
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Well here is hoping that the name I actually want to use is available. They can camp TerrraDraconis all they want but I only plan to use that name one one server where he is at right now.
The name I do want I managed to get on another server and it would be nice to have it on Exalted because it was done as a villain who really should have been a hero. And now I can make him that way.... Yeah...
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Not everyone making grey characters was just squatting for the sake of it. |
Originally Posted by NuclearToast
You could also see all the namegrabbers by the gray-generic characters that were appearing and logging off right away at the base of the stairs.
Luckily for me, I got the ones I needed for my existing characters. --NT |
Some of us are waiting for enough transfer tokens to build up to shift our characters and don't want to lose our names in the meantime.
My partner and I lost the names of our mains in the first few minutes the server was open :-/
On reflection even though it doesn't effect me I would like to see the people who did this punished. Have those names forcibly removed from them and possibly either a temp ban or a permanent ban for their behavior.
It isn't cool or funny unless your high on something to do that to other people.
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So, who is going to judge this? NcSoft isn't dumb enough to do something like that.
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Originally Posted by TerraDraconis
On reflection even though it doesn't effect me I would like to see the people who did this punished. Have those names forcibly removed from them and possibly either a temp ban or a permanent ban for their behavior.
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What exactly are they doing and why exactly should they be punished? All that can be said for sure is that some people were faster on the naming draw than others. being certain about malicious intent is pretty much impossible barring a /tell from someone saying "neener neener, got your name". Sometimes we get tunnel vision regarding the motivations of others, especially when their actions cause us a lot of grief.
Names aren't "claimed" or "owned" by anyone besides the person who gets them first. I realize it probably drives people nuts, but it is what it is. Also, as mentioned upthread, if their intention is to wind people up, why give them the satisfaction of knowing they succeeded?
Let me get this straight, you are mad about not getting a name in a game you are quitting anyway? My sympathy for you knows no bounds. 
P.S. If somebody wants to ego stroke themselves by taking my namesake on a server I have zero desire to play on, then by all means do so. You won't even get a day old internet cookie from me for your effort.
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This is about the only situation in which I would accuse someone of cybersquatting, and even then I wouldn't expect NC to do anything about it. Certainly it's annoying, but I'd be ecstatic if it was the worst problem I had to deal with.| being certain about malicious intent is pretty much impossible barring a /tell from someone saying "neener neener, got your name". |
Oh, and as for names of Time Manipulation characters, I didn't even try to get something with any variation of "time" in it. My DP/Time (hero) Corruptor on Exalted is Dr. Liam Impossible, displaced Victorian "gentleman adventurer".
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Well, prior to Freemdom launching i'd joked in a global channel about trying to grab all the reasonable permutations of a certain name, but then realized i'd rather they got the name as fair warning to others.|
Originally Posted by NuclearToast
I saw a number of people that were gloating about doing it on Exalted the first night. Yes, saying so out loud in chat. I thought they were douchebags then.
You could also see all the namegrabbers by the gray-generic characters that were appearing and logging off right away at the base of the stairs. Luckily for me, I got the ones I needed for my existing characters. --NT |
Not to mention i wouldn't do that to someone else no matter how little i think of them.
i did get the name Starspawn on Exalted for my new Kheldian, so there is that.
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Originally Posted by Emberly
being certain about malicious intent is pretty much impossible barring a /tell from someone saying "neener neener, got your name".
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I saw a number of people that were gloating about doing it on Exalted the first night. Yes, saying so out loud in chat....
You could also see all the namegrabbers by the gray-generic characters that were appearing and logging off right away at the base of the stairs. |
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Originally Posted by Emberly
Sometimes we get tunnel vision regarding the motivations of others, especially when their actions cause us a lot of grief.
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It could easily be proven that the person(s) that did this were targeting specific "well known" and "high profile" names. If their accounts are full of such names, that is proof of griefing, and it should be addressed by the GMs/Devs.
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I managed to get St0n3y and Stoney, and I got a name reserved for my brother since he was getting his namesake. If anyone is going to be an *** with the name St0n3y, by god its going to be me.
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I'm camping several "high profile poster's" names (including SnipeFu) but all by request pending them re-subbing.
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Obviously we know who it was, and obviously this thread has been moderated. Can someone kindly PM me who is doing this?
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Feel free to report those people, but I am certain that gloating over beating someone to a name isn't an actionable offense. It's distasteful, though.|
Originally Posted by Impish Kat
You mean like what NT described?....
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DumpleBerry, you can find out who got any given name with /getglobalname but I assume you know that.
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Originally Posted by TerraDraconis
On reflection even though it doesn't effect me I would like to see the people who did this punished. Have those names forcibly removed from them and possibly either a temp ban or a permanent ban for their behavior.
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Originally Posted by Impish Kat
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that griefing is an actionable offense.
It could easily be proven that the person(s) that did this were targeting specific "well known" and "high profile" names. If their accounts are full of such names, that is proof of griefing, and it should be addressed by the GMs/Devs. . |
Is it a real **** move to camp names like this? Of course it is. But oh well. Some people will be jerks. It happens. That is life. Deal with it.
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You could always check their identity on your own, in-game (see my previous post).
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
Obviously we know who it was, and obviously this thread has been moderated. Can someone kindly PM me who is doing this?
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Thats funny that someone would consider a few forum posters 'famous' enough to grab their names.
Does anyone own a name? Does it depend how unique the name is? How long they've had it? I know from experience that "Bubbawheat" is a unique name. But there is at least one other person using the name legitimately out on the internet. Do I own it? What about a name like "Zombie Man"? It's not an extremely unique name. It could argued that someone likes the name and isn't camping it. So, should whoever got "Zombie Man" on Exalted be made to give it up because the forum "Zombie Man" has been around longer? Is more popular? It's unfortunate that it happened, and I agree that they are "jerks" for lack of a better word, but I know there won't be any action taken on the name camping front. And I'm ok with that.
That's pretty annoying. I would guess that I'm not that high profile, though I never have and never will create a character named "Bubbawheat" so I didn't check that. I did get "Burnt Matchstick", but I did not get "Time Shifter" but I don't seriously think that one is a name squatter as it's a time-related name that I originally had to check 4 or 5 servers before I found one where it was available when I made it over a year ago.