FC Has Same Tag As Mine on a Technicality. Why is this allowed?!

So in October I created an FC called Dark Aeons with the tag <AEONS>.

As I understand it, an fc cannot choose a name or tag if that name is already in use, as I tried before way back to test it. In February, an FC named Order of Bahamut was formed, and their tag was/still is <Aeons>. Why is this allowed? Clearly if we're not allowed to use same tags we shouldn't be allowed to use it just because some letters are capitalized versus uncapitalized right? :confused:

Is there any way some GM can take care of this? Or maybe devs can patch this so you cant have the same sequence of letters regardless of capitalization? I'm being swagger-jacked :mad:

Edit: Some of my previous assumptions were corrected. Original question still stands; Why is this allowed? Pretty easy way to cause confusion imo.

Does anyone else feel the urge to create an FC on Mateus with the tag <AeonS>?

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Originally Posted by Esmian

Does anyone else feel the urge to create an FC on Mateus with the tag <AeonS>?

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LOL. i know it's not the end of world, but it's irked me for some time. If we're not supposed to be able to duplicate the same names and tag names, then they should at least block this workaround >_<

<AeOnz> Here we come!

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I always thought it was common knowledge that two FCs could technically use the same tag/acronym. However, all names must be 100% unique. I vaguely remember seeing a few FCs running around with the same tag back when the game first launched.

Even if that is the case, you'd think people would avoid using the same tag ... if only to prevent confusion.

Tags aren't locked, don't even need to change the capitalization to use the same tag as another FC.

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Originally Posted by Ryuko

Please correctly me if I'm wrong, but I always thought it was common knowledge that two FCs could technically use the same tag/acronym. However, all names must be 100% unique. I vaguely remember seeing a few FCs running around with the same tag back when the game first launched.

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You are correct, the tags can be the same, but the names cannot. For a longtime there was a FC on my server that had the exact same tag, capitalazation an everything. Fortunatly for us, that FC died out a longtime ago an now we are the only ones with our tag :)

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Originally Posted by DoubleT

You are correct, the tags can be the same, but the names cannot. For a longtime there was a FC on my server that had the exact same tag, capitalazation an everything. Fortunatly for us, that FC died out a longtime ago an now we are the only ones with our tag :)

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Oh? I tried using a tag name way back and I couldnt :/. I'll try again and see what happens. Still think it's weird to be allowed the same tag if that's the case >_<

Edit: Tried and you were right. That''s so...odd :/ .

They should just remove tags... Have;

<Title A>
<Player Name>
<Title B>
<Full Free Company Name>

They can easily change the font size of the Free Company name under the players name to make it less intrusive. And by "Title A" and "Title B" I don't mean having two titles, I mean the two different types of titles, some go before the name, some go after. I'm sure there are PS3 limitations or some such ridiculousness preventing this though, so we're stuck with tags that can be completely pointless as long as two Free Companies can have the same tag.

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Originally Posted by Kuroyasha

So in October I created an FC called Dark Aeons with the tag <AEONS>.

As I understand it, an fc cannot choose a name or tag if that name is already in use, as I tried before way back to test it. In February, an FC named Order of Bahamut was formed, and their tag was/still is <Aeons>. Why is this allowed? Clearly if we're not allowed to use same tags we shouldn't be allowed to use it just because some letters are capitalized versus uncapitalized right? :confused:

Is there any way some GM can take care of this? Or maybe devs can patch this so you cant have the same sequence of letters regardless of capitalization? I'm being swagger-jacked :mad:

Edit: Some of my previous assumptions were corrected. Original question still stands; Why is this allowed? Pretty easy way to cause confusion imo.

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I had two other FCs with the exact same tagname as name, so I changed it. Actually, our tag changes every week depending on my whim.

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Originally Posted by Kuroyasha

So in October I created an FC called Dark Aeons with the tag <AEONS>.

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The tag match good with your FC name.

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Originally Posted by Kuroyasha

...an FC named Order of Bahamut was formed, and their tag was/still is <Aeons>. Why is this allowed?...

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As long as the tag is completely unrelated to FC name, seems to me that they done that tag just to troll your FC :)


Edit: on secong tought, I recalled Bahamut is an Aeon, so that makes sense. But even if allowed, on create a new FC I think it is good practice make an unique tag. Maybe they were not even aware you exists.

There's a bunch of tags on Faerie that are variants of "kupo".

It's not enough. Every FC on Faerie should have some kind of kupo.

We solid in our swaggin'

<AEONS> =/= <Aeons>

The last one have only 1 big letter

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Originally Posted by Nalien

They should just remove tags... Have;

<Title A>
<Player Name>
<Title B>
<Full Free Company Name>

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Better would be:

<Title A>
<FC icon> <Player Name>
<Title B>

I miss the icons from 1.0
It is much better to search for specific icons than for specific letters in a group of players. Or if we can at least give the FC tags a own color.

Tags aren't locked at all unfortunately. Be thankful there is at least a slight difference in yours, on my server another FC formed and copied my FC's tag exactly.

It's not always a bad thing. On Balmung, a lot of different FCs put the "RP" letters on their tag. It's a good way to recognize each other among roleplayers, even when belonging to different groups.

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Originally Posted by Felis

The last one have only 1 big letter

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^ Cute

We're <Dark> and there's another FC with <DARK> = nobody has associated one to the other though, I think this is a moot point

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Originally Posted by Felis

<AEONS> =/= <Aeons>

The last one have only 1 big letter

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Why yes....yes i know. Hence the wording of the OP.

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Originally Posted by Niota

I had two other FCs with the exact same tagname as name, so I changed it. Actually, our tag changes every week depending on my whim.

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Indeed. I could change it, but the tag kind of goes perfectly with the name. And i was first :mad: (wish i could use a mad lalafell emoticon here lol).

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Because in ascii or any other code language, upper & lower case are different values. The tags are not the same.