Getting rid of surnames

[Kam]

I'd like to hear peoples opinions on this. I've had a few discussions in game with friends and some are for, some are against.

Personally I'm not much of a fan. "/tell Charles whatthehellstupidlongname" is wearing thin.

[Konachibi]

NO!

I like being Konata Chibi and Ren Koneko. Remove surnames and you limit the names people can be. I'd probably lose my name if someone of a higher level was using it too but with a different surname, and I'd be annoyed by that because I always have this is a first name in video games.

If you could just click the name of the person in the chat box to get a little window with options like /tell, /invite, /mute etc. and select one of those you wouldn't need to type that persons name in. That would be a much faster and more convenient system to use without having to remove something other players like.

(It's basically the system warcraft uses for it's chat window)

[Kam]

Yea this was part of my discussion. Even with the removal of surnames you will still get people that'll choose stupidly convoluted names.

Even so, I doubt Konata is that common. ^^

I've personally never met another Kamara. Even on other servers - though some were close.

[Konachibi]

We already have a pop-up window on our chat box now, i don't see why when someone sends us a /tell we can't just click then box and have a /reply option that would automatically set you to sending a /tell to the last person that sent one to you.

Maybe if you could customise that option to store a certain amount of /tell [insert name] in it so you could select one of them quickly and easily without having to type /tell [insert name] everytime you log on. That'd be more conveniant.

[Coldfire]

No way to completely remove surnames. Not gonna happen. But they could make the auto-complete a bit more intelligent when using it for tell.

[Verecund]

Can we just get rid of pants instead...

[Kam]

Mostly wanted to post about this due to seeing the "text resizing" screen shot where "Foxclon" is shown talking with no surname. I wouldn't mind the option to turn them off. But obviously its too complicated.

[Konachibi]

Yea this was part of my discussion. Even with the removal of surnames you will still get people that'll choose stupidly convoluted names.

Even so, I doubt Konata is that common. ^^

I've personally never met another Kamara. Even on other servers - though some where close.

Konata has become a very popular name to use in online MMO's with anime feels to them because of this Konata

[Jinrya-Geki]

For anyone who wants to get rid of surnames, if we lose them... I will find you.

[Konachibi]

Mostly wanted to post about this due to seeing the "text resizing" screen shot where "Foxclon" is shown talking with no surname. I wouldn't mind the option to turn them off. But obviously its too complicated.

The sole purpose of surnames in MMO's anyways is to allow people to have the first name they want without worrying about someone taking it, as they simply just need to use a different surname, which I feel is less important, since people tend to relate to your character using it's first name.

At the same time perhaps they could just allow you to have a choice whether to give your character a surname or not.