Trial account name purge?
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Posted on: 2011-11-04 11:15 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Originally Posted by Feycat
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Indeed, I think I could probably write the entire thread myself.|
Originally Posted by Feycat
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Lets see, some people will come in and post in support, some will post in opposition (mostly citing the poor impression it creates for a possible returning player).
A few people will come in and make implied insults that anyone in favor of it is unimaginative and listing all of the good names they have recently acquired.
Someone from the old EU servers will come in and request a global name purge so that they can get back their old global name.
Someone will bring up the CharacterName@AccountName system used in a certain other MMO and will get shouted down.
I think that covers it
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Yup, think it does! |
Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
Indeed, I think I could probably write the entire thread myself.
Lets see, some people will come in and post in support, some will post in opposition (mostly citing the poor impression it creates for a possible returning player). A few people will come in and make implied insults that anyone in favor of it is unimaginative and listing all of the good names they have recently acquired. Someone from the old EU servers will come in and request a global name purge so that they can get back their old global name. Someone will bring up the CharacterName@AccountName system used in a certain other MMO and will get shouted down. I think that covers it . |
And yeah... that was the only macro I had on hand, and I didn't feel like altering it to "six-hundredth" :P
As i said in the beginning,
Beating the dead horse. Ah well, back to banging my head on a wall for character names.
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As of I21 there are no inactive trial accounts. And the devs have told us they aren't doing any name purges.|
Originally Posted by Absolut_
Hey all, and bottoms up!
(commence beating a probably dead horse....) Small idea I had last night while attempting to get a new name for an alt, and one idea that has been probably thrown around many many many many times before. With this new influx of players the need for non-gibberish names is in high demand. I'm a player who HATES to have to use a dash, comma, period, or an apostrophe to get a name. Sometimes a dash or apostrophe is needed theme or grammar wise but still, its painful for me to do. I also see xXxNarturoxXx kinda stuff lately...totally uncool too. So my idea is can we purge the trial accounts of the names they hold if the trial account is inactive for so many months? I looked up a name on Liberty last night and the name was held by global @Trial WQ1H6 (or something similar not to point fingers). I know with other NCsoft games (I'm looking at you Aion!) That if a subscription is inactive for i believe 6+months the names of characters under a particular level are released back into the community. Now there is no announcement saying the names are back in circulation but you get my point.... Also I guess since reading the Virtue Name Watch thread that OLD OLD CoX accounts that went inactive before globals were introduced still hold wanted names....can those be marked for purging as well? Please? |
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
We are following this thread and taking your feedback into account all.
However, to be perfectly clear: We are not currently planning another name purge in the near future. There are reasons for this, which I am not at liberty to discuss at the moment. |
So if you and others are having trouble thinking up names I suggest checking out some of the sites listed in this post.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...&postcount=107
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You forgot that the implied insults will go both ways. |
Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
A few people will come in and make implied insults that anyone in favor of it is unimaginative and listing all of the good names they have recently acquired.
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Good point. |
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
You forgot that the implied insults will go both ways.
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Someone will counter those insults with a claim that the names presented aren't "real superhero names" and that something should be done to allow everyone to have "proper" names.
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Not only has CoH:Freedom made it -less- likely name purges will ever happen again but I think it's reasonable to speculate (based on the Zwillinger post) that there may eventually be some change coming to the game that'll make name purges -absolutely- unnecessary. I'm willing to trudge on regardless. *shrugs*
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
As of I21 there are no inactive trial accounts. And the devs have told us they aren't doing any name purges.
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Prolly will go the route of...1000 Dead Puddles that another MMO had when allowing duplicate names.
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I am kidding....
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Originally Posted by Feycat
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I agree it's a funny pic. "Six times" might not be a high enough count for this particular dead horse, but it would better apply to many other threads which have also been duplicated ad nauseum over the the years. |
Originally Posted by Lazarillo
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You probably don't need to go so far as to ERP a clone of Golden Girl.|
Originally Posted by Nyx
I know myself, Im going to create Golden Girl...and ERP her to a tarnished reputation.
I am kidding.... |
Just making such a clone be a villain would be funny enough.
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Name purges are proven to not solve the problem, especially in the long term. Support non-unique naming to alleviate the name-crunch permanently.
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And so it begins just as Adeon predicted. |
Originally Posted by Daemodand
Name purges are proven to not solve the problem, especially in the long term. Support non-unique naming to alleviate the name-crunch permanently.
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To be honest, I think that post is in reference to Freedom. Once subscriptions are surplus to playing, they really have a set of Bad Choices for what names to purge.
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Originally Posted by Lothic
Not only has CoH:Freedom made it -less- likely name purges will ever happen again but I think it's reasonable to speculate (based on the Zwillinger post) that there may eventually be some change coming to the game that'll make name purges -absolutely- unnecessary. I'm willing to trudge on regardless. *shrugs*
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Let's Dance!
Why not just think of a new, more unique name? Is this a weird suggestion to make?
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It's one of the standard suggestions and is countered with, "But all the names I want are taken and I don't want to use some crappy name I don't want."|
Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle
Why not just think of a new, more unique name? Is this a weird suggestion to make?
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You left one out:|
Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
Indeed, I think I could probably write the entire thread myself.
Lets see, some people will come in and post in support, some will post in opposition (mostly citing the poor impression it creates for a possible returning player). A few people will come in and make implied insults that anyone in favor of it is unimaginative and listing all of the good names they have recently acquired. Someone from the old EU servers will come in and request a global name purge so that they can get back their old global name. Someone will bring up the CharacterName@AccountName system used in a certain other MMO and will get shouted down. I think that covers it . |
There is already a name purge script that the devs have run in the past and may choose to run again. You remember the devs - the people who can datamine and actually know how many names are on inactive accounts and on what level of characters.
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And that's when Memphis Bill shows up and confirms that the script hasn't been used since the second time it was run because he has a character on an alt account that he checks periodically to see if the name was freed up and it's still unavailable.
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Originally Posted by Ironblade
You left one out:
There is already a name purge script that the devs have run in the past and may choose to run again. You remember the devs - the people who can datamine and actually know how many names are on inactive accounts and on what level of characters. |
And then! ...
Oh wait, darn it. Then that's the end of the thread.
Well Phooey.
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Not till we see the same posts at least 4x.
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Originally Posted by Forse
And then! ...
Oh wait, darn it. Then that's the end of the thread. Well Phooey. |
Hey all, and bottoms up!
(commence beating a probably dead horse....)
Small idea I had last night while attempting to get a new name for an alt, and one idea that has been probably thrown around many many many many times before. With this new influx of players the need for non-gibberish names is in high demand. I'm a player who HATES to have to use a dash, comma, period, or an apostrophe to get a name. Sometimes a dash or apostrophe is needed theme or grammar wise but still, its painful for me to do. I also see xXxNarturoxXx kinda stuff lately...totally uncool too.
So my idea is can we purge the trial accounts of the names they hold if the trial account is inactive for so many months? I looked up a name on Liberty last night and the name was held by global @Trial WQ1H6 (or something similar not to point fingers). I know with other NCsoft games (I'm looking at you Aion!) That if a subscription is inactive for i believe 6+months the names of characters under a particular level are released back into the community. Now there is no announcement saying the names are back in circulation but you get my point....
Also I guess since reading the Virtue Name Watch thread that OLD OLD CoX accounts that went inactive before globals were introduced still hold wanted names....can those be marked for purging as well? Please?
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