Moral choice permanently changes character name
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Posted on: 2011-09-21 14:19 in Bug Report Forums
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Possibly due to a plan to remove titles such as king and similar by the devs, The "The" is also available as an ingame title so it may of been caught by a semi implemented system that's all but inactive. (Except it seems for the Resistance.)
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in the old character creator typing in "The" would automatically make it a title
im assuming it may have not caught it at character creation and "fixed" itself when you finished the tutorial
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Originally Posted by seebs
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edit - no offense to the OP (or their toon), but hey - 50mil is 50mil
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It presumably could be put back the way it was at level 15 by visiting a trainer and choosing a title, which includes the independent options of no title and "The" so he could be The Pernicious Prince of the Whales, or just The Prince of the Whales. I haven't tried that. It was just a bug test, he's still level 2.
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No, The was his title. He lost his title.
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Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
in the old character creator typing in "The" would automatically make it a title
im assuming it may have not caught it at character creation and "fixed" itself when you finished the tutorial |
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thats a different issue then, sounds like a probable bug
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Originally Posted by Pengy
No, The was his title. He lost his title.
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I'm actually going with intentional feature/misfeature.|
Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
thats a different issue then, sounds like a probable bug
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You are technically changing sides when you go from Praetoria to Primal. And the sides have different titles available.
So, the game resets your title upon side-change. Can't have any Statesmashers in Paragon City!
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Actually, you can have Statesmashers in Paragon, as long as they pick the title in Praetoria and leave it completely alone in Paragon. It's only switching between red and blue that clears your title. That might be a bug, maybe gold titles are supposed to be cleared on side switching, too.
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Obviously when you join the Resistance you're expected to go underground, and any name starting with "The" is a unique and well known name that's hard to hide. The Resistance prefers you to be just one of the multitude of princes of the whales, easily mistaken for another one of them, rather than The Prince of the Whales, which would make you easy to find.|
Originally Posted by seebs
I offer a 50M inf prize for the best in-world explanation, as judged by me.
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Edit: Obviously there's currently a bug with the naming change, and the next patch will also remove any caps from the name, as was originally intended.
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Ya, turns out I failed at reading. Misunderstood the nature of the problem. I still imagine it's a case of the title getting reset on 'faction change' between Loyalist and Resistance [and the assumed 'default'].
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Originally Posted by Pengy
Actually, you can have Statesmashers in Paragon, as long as they pick the title in Praetoria and leave it completely alone in Paragon. It's only switching between red and blue that clears your title. That might be a bug, maybe gold titles are supposed to be cleared on side switching, too.
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Originally Posted by reiella
Ya, turns out I failed at reading. Misunderstood the nature of the problem. I still imagine it's a case of the title getting reset on 'faction change' between Loyalist and Resistance [and the assumed 'default'].
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How come your forum name is yellow/gold and everyone else is white?
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I sincerely hope they don't go through with that notion. It makes no sense at all; titles such as King, Captain, and so forth are a significant part of the superhero genre.|
Originally Posted by Coolio
Possibly due to a plan to remove titles such as king and similar by the devs...
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If they truly do decide to do this, I hope they at least can provide a logical reason for that decision. Something beyond the iconic heroes being offended by the idea of the lesser mortals claiming titles.
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Originally Posted by Lucky666
How come your forum name is yellow/gold and everyone else is white?
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User CP, left panel, Networking, Group Memberships. You can select either the standard or the VIP for your style
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Awesome, I feel golden now (ouch that was bad), thanks!
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Originally Posted by reiella
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Originally Posted by reiella
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I made a Praetorian character named The Prince of the Whales. On choosing to join the Resistance my name was immediately changed to Prince of the Whales. I seem to have left an article behind in the subway station.
The same thing doesn't happen if I choose Loyalist. It doesn't happen in the Galaxy City tutorial. Entering an instance or a city zone neither reverts the change nor causes it on a new character.