Name/Gender Change

[Alopex-Lagopus]

I love you now! \o/

[Daichi_Yamato]

Your name is pretty much your identity in eve. Actions have consequences. No name changes.

Gender changes are fine. Beyond that, use skill extractors to make a new character.

[Daichi_Yamato]

@Dravick_Afterthought

I cocked-up my name when I first joined

So why not start again straight away? You’d have lost almost nothing.

[Dravick_Afterthought]

@Daichi_Yamato

So why not start again straight away? You’d have lost almost nothing.

I didn’t know I couldn’t change it later, or I would have done.

[Dravick_Afterthought]

@Dyver_Phycad

When was this time? In the not so distant past, noobish or not so noobish mistakes got you killed for good without a second chance. Unlike in today’s day and age, there has not been a life that was about giving people a second chance.

Are you talking about Eve Online, or real life ? If the latter, I think you have a very jaundiced view of the human race…

@Dyver_Phycad

Biomass and create a new char with the correct name.

What’s “biomass” ?

[Alopex-Lagopus]

@Daichi_Yamato

Your name is pretty much your identity in eve. Actions have consequences. No name changes.

Gender changes are fine. Beyond that, use skill extractors to make a new character.

How about you try making a new character with this name? “Urocyon cinereoargenteus”

You can not as CCP has capped the number of letter and number characters for the naming boxes preventing it.

And in case you are wondering about the desired name. Urocyon cinereoargenteus

Gray fox

[Merin_Ryskin]

@Alopex-Lagopus

How about you try making a new character with this name? “Urocyon cinereoargenteus”

You can not as CCP has capped the number of letter and number characters for the naming boxes preventing it.

Boo hoo. Why does your inability to create one particular name (which doesn’t fit the lore of EVE) mean that we need the ability to change names?

[Eternal_Montage]

@Merin_Ryskin

which doesn’t fit the lore of EVE

I didn’t know names had to fit the lore of eve?

[Merin_Ryskin]

@Eternal_Montage

I didn’t know names had to fit the lore of eve?

They don’t. But if you’re going to demand sympathy and changes to allow you to use a particular name it’s a much more compelling argument if it does fit the lore, rather than being your forum trolling alt or whatever.

[Daichi_Yamato]

So it doesn’t matter how many name changes you have.

Why are you bringing this up?

[Salt_Foambreaker]

@Lugh_Crow-Slave

remember when eve was about living with the consequences of your choices

You mean before char bizarre and skill extractors?

So in the current decade…

[Salt_Foambreaker]

@Lady_Ayeipsia

Skill extractors do not mean you can change a name. Yes you could extract all skills,but an old pilot would lose so much SP.

Skill extractors are the worst workaround, but they do work and so since we are allowing it now, why not do it right, with tracking so that we know who this person was before.

The alt method completely undermines the idea that your behavior follows you because there is no tracking.

Ironically the argument against is also the argument in favor.

[Alopex-Lagopus]

Absolutely right.

I mean, how hard is it to change a name and keep all associated blocks attached to it?

…

Unless CCP is still using Win 98 like me. OoO
Naaaw that could not be…

[Gadget_Helmsdottir]

@Dravick_Afterthought

What’s “biomass” ?

Erasing a character permanently.

–Helpful Gadget

[Gadget_Helmsdottir]

Which extractor transfers Corp History?

–Gadget forgets

[Keno_Skir]

Nope. A name has weight here, even with skill extractors.

[Alopex-Lagopus]

A name only has weight if people care to give it weight.

[Dravick_Afterthought]

@Alopex-Lagopus

I mean, how hard is it to change a name and keep all associated blocks attached to it?

Depends how the database is designed - if they’re using the name itself as a key, it’d be almost impossible. However, if they’ve designed the database properly, so each avatar has a unique unsigned long-integer key instead, the name will just be a datum hanging off that key, and changing it is (technically) trivial provided there’s some way of informing the client that it’s changed and needs to be re-fetched.

[Keno_Skir]

@Alopex-Lagopus

A name only has weight if people care to give it weight.

That doesn’t mean anything. Your name is the only way to quickly link your character to it’s previous actions. In this way the name has weight, whether you care to give it weight or otherwise.

[Salt_Foambreaker]

@Keno_Skir

That doesn’t mean anything. Your name is the only way to quickly link your character to it’s previous actions. In this way the name has weight, whether you care to give it weight or otherwise.

And that is why we need name change, the current method has no tracking and all the actions are discarded. No history at all.