supergroup name change token
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Posted on: 2012-08-30 11:43 in Suggestions and Ideas
Unfortunately you are not the first or last person to find themselves in this situation. While it has been suggested/requested for some time there is no way to change the name of an SG.
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Yep the collective idea of a "SG name change token" has been something players have been suggesting pretty much ever since SG bases were added to the game. 
What's really frustrating is that ever since the Devs introduced the "Red Star" super leader rank to the game the idea of allowing Red Star leaders to buy a token for the purpose of renaming a SG seems incredibly intuitive/obvious to me. Everytime this topic comes up we always discuss all the pros and cons related to it and eventually most people come to realize that a SG name change token could be implemented fairly straightforwardly with very little risk. The Devs already have the means to change SG names via Dev-only commands - they do this to change names that have been reported as offensive or otherwise unacceptable. All we need is a way for players to access (in a controlled way) that same rename command.
I really have no earthly clue why the Devs continue to drag their feet on this issue...
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I've heard that if you ask CS nicely they "might" be willing to rename it once if they aren't too busy.
But that was hearing from someone that heard it from someone that thought they might have seen a redname comment about it somewhere that I've never found.
So take that as you will.
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That's CS, not the Devs.
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Originally Posted by Lothic
The Devs already have the means to change SG names via Dev-only commands - they do this to change names that have been reported as offensive or otherwise unacceptable.
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If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
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.... wasn't this an argument with Zwizzleztick?|
Originally Posted by Lothic
I really have no earthly clue why the Devs continue to drag their feet on this issue...
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I think this was the topic that was brought up and he ended up bringing up the "But who gets to decide" - to which multiple people (including me) mentioned being the *entire reason* we were given for the red-star rank - a single point of contact and single person of responsibility for CS issues.
Which, to me, includes renames.
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Oh I remember a thread about this tho I can't which redname was giving us the run around. I went digging around for the original redname post that told the people in the base builders section of the forums that the player with the red star was the defacto owner of the SG so CS wouldn't have to get involved in internal politics/squabbling.
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Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
.... wasn't this an argument with Zwizzleztick?
I think this was the topic that was brought up and he ended up bringing up the "But who gets to decide" - to which multiple people (including me) mentioned being the *entire reason* we were given for the red-star rank - a single point of contact and single person of responsibility for CS issues. Which, to me, includes renames. |
It'd be a P.I.T.A., but if you were conscerned about losing the lump sum of loot within the base (and had the patience to re-build up prestige), then you could start a new SG and gradually move stuff from the one base to the new one. Once the move was complete, then you could kick everybody out, and then quit the group. That would solve the issue in a long round about way. Unfortunately you lose all the prestige related stuff from the first base/group.
Oh and I do recall such a discussion before as well. It boiled basically down to it'd be nice, but in a politically correct sort of way they said that it wouldn't be fair to step in on individual SG policies, etc.
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If you have the red star simply boot everyone. CS will back you up by not getting involved. As far as they are concerned you own everything in the SG/Base and can do as you like.|
Originally Posted by WanderingAries
It'd be a P.I.T.A., but if you were conscerned about losing the lump sum of loot within the base (and had the patience to re-build up prestige), then you could start a new SG and gradually move stuff from the one base to the new one. Once the move was complete, then you could kick everybody out, and then quit the group. That would solve the issue in a long round about way. Unfortunately you lose all the prestige related stuff from the first base/group.
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If you aren't the red star you would need some warning this could happen and retain storage permissions allowing you to take stuff out.
A Red Star making a power play isn't likely to give you that kind of notice.
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Their just feeding us a line of bull. On one hand they tell us they implemented the Super Leader rank so CS could avoid getting involved in internal SG politics, then turn around and say can't give Super Leaders an SG rename token because SG's are group oriented content and it would involve CS in internal SG politics.
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Originally Posted by WanderingAries
Oh and I do recall such a discussion before as well. It boiled basically down to it'd be nice, but in a politically correct sort of way they said that it wouldn't be fair to step in on individual SG policies, etc.
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In this context when I said "Devs" I generically meant "people in charge who can do these things." Technically you're correct - but that distinction's not really important, especially considering the news we got yesterday about the game in general. |
Originally Posted by Texas Justice
That's CS, not the Devs.
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I was given a sg/base by a player who was leaving the server, right now it is my "private" lair for 1 char. would like to see some way to rename the SG without recreating .
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