Tiny Free Company rant

[drmambo1999]

So My guild leader just recently got a face full of agro text from another player regarding our FR tag. (I will not say names here to avoid harassment)

So this player was upset because we happened to have the same name on our tag that his guild had.

This player got very aggressive with my guild leader and even went as far as accusing him of botting... (Just throwing it out there, we play on PS4. Not sure if there is a way to bot on PS4 XD) This player kept saying things like "Oh you are so original using our name tag!" "We came first!" and yada yada.

I would usually dismiss this as a troll, but when we checked the FC he was from, there was "We are the first to use "NAME" All over, so makes me consider that this player might have actually been serious.

Ok, I can completely understand if you have a name first and want to be unique or easy to find by other players, but in that scenario where you come across another guild with the same tag, what is stopping you from simply requesting said guild to change their name tag?

Just saying, if a game allows for names to be used more than once, I would expect that to happen. No need to take it personally.....

This all being said, this IS the internet and as such it comes with a certain level of stupid, but still, this just rubbed me the wrong way. XD

[AlphaFox]

I will admit it does seem like an oversight to allow the same tag, I know in my FC back on Goblin I'd usually wave at people who I assumed were in my FC only to realize the only difference was they had it all caps.

[Valkyrie-Amber]

Well once I too chose a fc tag that another fc was useing before so I changed my tag that I have yet to see. The main issue with the company tag thing is 5 charactors max so if on a huge server with many people... well I'm sure there will be many people with same or really simmilar tags...

Still its not something to cry over and all lol just accept it and carry on, but like you say some people are super immature like that and make simply enjoying things not so enjoyable...

fact is there are many many players and fcs on all worlds and with limit sometimes silly stuff like same tag will happen its unadvoidable but still accept and move on dont troll or just change your tag afterall its super easy to do.

[drmambo1999]

I will admit it does seem like an oversight to allow the same tag, I know in my FC back on Goblin I'd usually wave at people who I assumed were in my FC only to realize the only different was they had it all caps.

Yeah I honestly, kinda wish change that so there would be less confusion for the player base. XD

[drmambo1999]

Well once I too chose a fc tag that another fc was useing before so I changed my tag that I have yet to see. The main issue with the company tag thing is 5 charactors max so if on a huge server with many people... well I'm sure there will be many people with same or really simmilar tags...

Still its not something to cry over and all lol just accept it and carry on, but like you say some people are super immature like that and make simply enjoying things not so enjoyable...

fact is there are many many players and fcs on all worlds and with limit sometimes silly stuff like same tag will happen its unadvoidable but still accept and move on dont troll or just change your tag afterall its super easy to do.

Agreed completely. I think my guild leader is just gonna change our tag to avoid this happening again. Such a silly thing to get your panties bunched up over. XD

[Velox]

You're not in the wrong because of the system allowing FC's to use the same tags so don't worry. The reason some people can get angry about it is that tags offer an easy way for FC's to recruit without spelling out the entire FC name (which can be long in some cases).

For example, it's a lot quicker to type "BSD is recruiting!" in an advertisement than it is to "Blue Screen of Death is recruiting." Because of this, the tag becomes just as an important association to a FC as the name itself. If two different FC's were going around saying "join BSD" it can become extremely confusing for players.

So while you technically didn't do anything wrong, it's become more of an unspoken rule of "courtesy" amongst the playerbase. That said, the other player shouldn't have flipped out without talking it over calmly first and asking your leader to change the tag nicely, so that person isn't without fault there. Now if he/she continues to harass you guys over it, feel free to report that person. You really don't have to change your FC tag though just because someone tells you to. It is more of a courteous gesture though. One thing I've seen FCs do is to capitalize different letters in cases where the same tag was being used for two or more FCs (for example, one would be <BSD> and the other would be <bsd>).

[Ashkendor]

I can understand a certain level of confusion with finding another FC with the same tag as you, but the other FC leader handled it very poorly. I'd be inclined to say your FC leader should've reported him for harassment. Odds are you guys had never even heard of this other FC before the leader decided to lay into your leader for something stupid. Seriously, the fact that the system allows FC's to duplicate tags isn't your guys' fault. Nobody has any form of claim to the tag they pick.

[drmambo1999]

yeah, I am pretty sure our guild leader is gonna change the tag tonight. We don't want to make recruiting difficult by any means. I don't agree with what that player did, but that doesn't mean his guild is to blame and so it would only be right to change our name knowing the situation now.

[Spawnie]

i remember 1 of the earlier fcs i was in brought a house some1 else had thier eye on... everyday without fail he would sit outside abusing any1 in the fc he saw went on for months some ppl just are aholes not much any1 can do about it lol

[drmambo1999]

i remember 1 of the earlier fcs i was in brought a house some1 else had thier eye on... everyday without fail he would sit outside abusing any1 in the fc he saw went on for months some ppl just are aholes not much any1 can do about it lol

This is quite true sadly. XD