Getting rid of surnames

After a while playing, I found surnames have always cluttered the screen, especially when coming across someone with an obnoxiously complicated name. (And, though I have seen some funny ones..) They give the game a much more informal feel - Something I'm not really looking for when relaxing in my time off. I've never really seen the need for them, mostly because people got around this years ago by simply getting rid of the space between a full name.

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Originally Posted by Ashgarth

Every once in a while someone feels the necessity to open a thread to remove surnames for some reason.

Not gonna happen.

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Foxclon can be just Foxclon.

Why can't I just be Kamara? - or better yet. just Kam. - Its pretty simple. Just like that galka female/male mithra thread.

Having the option to show 1st/last only or both would be nice.
Or maybe even have it so you can display a nickname but when using chat you see the real name?

As for dropping them.. Na that's a really bad idea.
TBF some of the names are bad enough now without people having cloudbigswordssssss and such showing up.

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Originally Posted by Kam

After a while playing, I found surnames have always cluttered the screen, especially when coming across someone with an obnoxiously complicated name. (And, though I have seen some funny ones..) They give the game a much more informal feel - Something I'm not really looking for when relaxing in my time off. I've never really seen the need for them, mostly because people got around this years ago by simply getting rid of the space between a full name.

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Yes but in long names like Shikitakanashi, for instance, it would be more annoying to type than before and possibly exceed the maximum characters a single name would be allowed, plus since you aren't normally allowed to have capital letters in the middle of the name you wouldn't be able to differentiate where the first name ended and the surname began. And even if it did let that many letters in a single named, having it bunched up like that looks more cluttered than having it seperated as it is now.

Lol, for a moment I thought this was a necro'd thread.
Anyways, removing of the surnames was discussed there and many were against it if I remember right.
Forgive me my lazyness to not go through all the posts that were posted in that old thread...

I'm against removing of surnames.
It was already hard for me to come up a surname for my chara, because I've been playing
games that don't require one, and I'd be very angry if I'd lost it.
And I wouldn't want to create a new chara called CelethienMoonheart or something like that just so I could have a surname.

Also surnames help add to a characters customisation.

We have enough threads with people screaming about immersion without adding fuel to the fire by removing another part of their precious 'immersion'.

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Originally Posted by Konachibi

Yes but in long names like Shikitakanashi, for instance, it would be more annoying to type than before and possibly exceed the maximum characters a single name would be allowed, plus since you aren't normally allowed to have capital letters in the middle of the name you wouldn't be able to differentiate where the first name ended and the surname began. And even if it did let that many letters in a single named, having it bunched up like that looks more cluttered than having it seperated as it is now.

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Of course your logic is sound. lol. I'm thinking an exodus of surnames would mean a general simplification in the naming of peoples character's.

After all why would you need to name your character "Shikitakanashi" if you're looking to talk with people?

(I agree with the fact they need to add some sort of intuitive way of speaking to people quickly... this is the main issue, immersion is my personal one)

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Originally Posted by Kam

Of course your logic is sound. lol. I'm thinking a exodus of surnames would mean a general simplification in the naming of peoples character's.

After all why would you need to name you're character "Shikitakanashi" if you're looking to talk with people?

(I agree with the fact they need to add some sort of intuitive way of speaking to people quickly... this is the main issue, immersion is my personal one)

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Well because Shikitakanashi's other two characters are Makitakanashi and Shiontakanashi.

And my Lalafell alt would come out as Renrenrurukachu which is almost impossible to spell properly when it's all bunched up like that XD

lol. Aside from the fact that a quick /tell to someone is made more complicated by cultural, media, personal choices.
Surenames generally don't need to be there for those that don't "require" them. =)

(trying to stay on topic :P)

does no one us ctrl r?