Needed Update for Corporation Names and Tickers

Council Of Stellar Management Assembly Hall
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Hello everyone,

it come to my attention again, that EvE is running very slowly but steady into a simple but stupid problem. Names. Not really Char Names but rather Corporation Names and Alliance Names. Tickers are included in that Problem.

This game is over 20 Years old. We do not know how man Chars where born until today. But what we know is, that Names are getting a problem. First, Tickers. Tickers are very short, thats intended, yes i know. But i recently made a new Corp and i needed to give up after 50+ attempts to find a ticker that was to my liking. Thats just annoying. Why is that so?

Because Tickers are very short and you are only allowed a very very limited amount of Letters and special characters. CCP needs to fix the Ticker issue. Allow more special characters or make the Limit in general larger.

Same goes for Corp/Alliance Names in general. I mean, yeha, Names in general are not a Problem. You could Name your Corp XYZ123Q or Dickpick2000SpaceWhales. Those Names are most likely still available. But the Names, who are following certain patterns or just including certain words, because they are very liked, they are running short. That has some resons.

  1. CCP thought back in the day, that it was for some reason, a good Idea, to store Char Names, Corp Names and Alliance Names, in the same DB. - Seperate them!
  2. Well…Humans are following Patterns and thinking alike. Broadly speaking, we are coming down to the same Name Patterns all the time. Let it be a certain language, colours, phenomena and combinations of those.
  3. Humans are Dickheads. Its the same in every MMO. Some ppl make Chars just to ■■■■ off other ppl. They Block loved Char names or corporation names with a empty second Charakters.
  4. CCP’s GMs refusing to change in those instances to change the Name of those Charakters. Even when it is clear as hell, that the Charakter was never played. - Change that! GMs can see if a Char was never logged in! CCP should rather take care of the active playerbase then protecting never played Char names.

Well its obvi not a world ending Problem but it is a Problem and when it comes to CCP and Problems relating towards Corporations, well…there is a reason why the Title/Role management System is most likely one of the oldest Systems in the whole Game?

BR
Sebis Bakesch

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@Mike_Azariah

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Sorry, but if I snatch up a character name that you wanted, and I’m just using it as a placeholder, too bad. If I so much as log into it once a year, that character is being used.

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Well sorry but thats just destructive Gameplay in my opinion. And on a level that does not fit the spirit of EvE. Because there is no way to deal with it using ingame mechanics. But Char Names are as i said the lesser problem anway.

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Welcome to the wonderful world of corporate (name and ticker) PvP.

:wink:

@QuakeGod maybe you should extend your activities to creating corps to have the best possible names and tickers occupied the same way, and if your solo corps have at least one sign in activity each year nobody can complain.

:popcorn:

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Special characters?

So you can impersonate Goonswarm’s CONDI by making an alliance CÓNDI?
So you can impersonate Pandemic Horde by making the ticker of your corporation RËKTD?
BRÅVE?

Yes, it’s hard to find a ticker that isn’t taken.

No, I do not think it’s a good idea to allow people ‘more freedom’ to almost copy the existing tickers by introducing special characters.

With 5 characters that according to EVE Uni wiki allow letters, numbers, spaces, and dots you have (26+10+1+1)^5 = 79,235,168 combinations.

While EVE has many player groups, I think it’s only a small fraction of this amount.

Surely you can find a unique ticker you like.

You can use https://evewho.com/ to check whether a ticker has already been taken.

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There is obvi lots of theoretical space but that does not mean that there is Space for the Corp Names, who get chosen from Players. And in the End it does not even need to be the same name. Just same parts of words that start with the same letters and in many instances your already out of options. Happens more often than you think. My old corp suffert under that problem already over 10 Years ago. XD

And no one said that i want special characters like the ones you are using. But atm ONLY the - and the . i allowed in Tickers. Whats with the * _ or / for example? Lots of options.

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