Duplicate Free Company name on same server

[Surian]

How you you propose they solve it? They cant implement renaming, and then still, who would have to do that? There's just no acceptable fix for it.

Is it anoying? Sure.
It it game breaking? Absolutely not.

Unless you are huge and special no one is going to seriously be refered to your FC since you're just one of the many many many FC's out there. There's little to no confusion. If anything, you wont even run into the people carrying duplicate names, you wont even recognize anyone with the same FC name because the Tags are diffirent entirely.

Now what -is- anoying is duplicate Company Tags on two or more large companies. Those show up next to your name and are for everyone to see. And most of all, those are easily confused. There's easily 5 Free Companies walking around with "Kupo" in their tag. 4 of those dont even have anything remotely to do with moogles, the 5th one does but isnt called anything it would abbreviate into... Just anoying.

Anyhow, long story short. Cant be changed, because someone will have to pick a side and end up changing their names. I dont feel SE has the means, time and desire to police all the FC's and their names.

[Pure-Wasabi]

How you you propose they solve it?

Implement the same programming logic that they used when a person registers a character's name. Have you ever tried to register a name that someone already has registered to a character? You can't register a name already taken no matter what combination of Upper and Lower case you try to utilize. They obviously have character name registration programming setup to recognize "toupper" or "tolower" commands. Which means it can be done and corrected.

Unless you are huge and special no one is going to seriously be refered to your FC since you're just one of the many many many FC's out there.

This logic holds no water based on the fact that you have discounted the main issue due to Free Company size. The issues the OP brought up still remains whether a Free Company has 30 members or 300 members.

Now what -is- anoying is duplicate Company Tags on two or more large companies.

OP already commented on this. This is also an easy programming fix so that Company Tags' characters are recognized whether they are Upper case or Lower case.

Cant be changed, because someone will have to pick a side and end up changing their names.

Might I recommend this: Implement the programming change that I mentioned above (which already works for character names), then allow the Free Company that had the name registered first (by date of course), keep the name and provide an option to the other Free Companies to change their name.

This is correctable. We just need to keep an open mind about how programming logic can work.