Name Change

[rina_inverse]

Let me conjure another example

You are a famous adventurer. Bards sing songs of your heroic deed. Statues are erect in Cities, Hamlets, all corner of the world to respect you. You are XXX, adventurer extraordinary!

But then you got bored with your name, which is, like I said before, what you are pre-2.0, your keepsake, your Legacy! Could you imagine that all the bards have to rename yourself in their songs, crafter scratch their head thinking so hard how to change the statues that they made into a new you (physic and identity) without have to start from scratch?

Yes, bard and crafter can be selfish
so what?
everyone is!


ps: that's just some lazy analogy for the all pain that DEV/DB team have to endure to re-name player ID into their database. Yes, I'm lazy like that

[Gao]

It makes sense to change your name if you planned on changing your gender. I mean it won't look right if you were a female cat name Tiffany and switched over to a male cat and your name is still Tiffany. That's just weird. But IF ONLY the people who changes their characters gender are the only ones allowed to change their name, that isn't really quite fair to the other players that didn't want to change genders, now is it?

[indira]

you would think they will give us a full character change when 2.0 gos live. i doubt they'll leave out the name change since we have to remake our characters because the game it self is new.

only thing were keeping is a database of what we have like items, levels, etc.

[Chardrizard]

I dont think tthis is.even worth arguing.. whether.they make.it happen or not, it will not break the game in anyway.

[Ricky]

If they can recreate the entire world, game engine, the game itself, surely we can change our names too
As for bad players getting a second chance, you must realize the GMs know if a person has changed their name, and that's what matters

[rina_inverse]

If they can recreate the entire world, game engine, the game itself, surely we can change our names too
As for bad players getting a second chance, you must realize the GMs know if a person has changed their name, and that's what matters

They not recreate the entire world
Of course, they have the plot device to do so (Dalamud), but it was more re-implement this setting into a new engine, like perhaps from watching SD to HD

[Dzian]

If they can recreate the entire world, game engine, the game itself, surely we can change our names too
As for bad players getting a second chance, you must realize the GMs know if a person has changed their name, and that's what matters

I think they said back with the server merge any name changes are represented in your social / black lists. so if you blacklist sir douchebag and he changes his name to sir hidefrombadrep they'll still be in your black list.

that said changing names if changing genders seems pretty much common sense. manq'ote called "miss kitty" LOL

[rina_inverse]

ok, let me try again
we are role playing
what does we role play as?
we role play as an adventurer in a medieval setting
do we have a suitable environment for that?
we have castle, busy business city, lively port city, and god-forsaken town in a middle of a jungle. we have knight, mage, mystical creature with a bit of magi-tek blend on it
does changing your name, your gender, heck even your race is logical while role playing in this kind of setting?
I don't know, but I don't think it's possible. Currently this setting doesn't have the proper technology to do so. what do you think?

[Gao]

ok, let me try again
we are role playing
what does we role play as?
we role play as an adventurer in a medieval setting
do we have a suitable environment for that?
we have castle, busy business city, lively port city, and god-forsaken town in a middle of a jungle. we have knight, mage, mystical creature with a bit of magi-tek blend on it
does changing your name, your gender, heck even your race is logical while role playing in this kind of setting?
I don't know, but I don't think it's possible. Currently this setting doesn't have the proper technology to do so. what do you think?

Who said all of us were role playing O_o? People want to change their names for the sake of changing their names. It's not a game breaking mechanic, it's not anything bad. People just want to change their names either because 1) They're tired of their name. 2) It won't look right if they change their gender/race. 3) They're changing it for the sake of changing it because they have the option to. Or last and foremost 4) They just want to simply change their name. I'm not saying these are facts mind you, and I'm not saying that these are what most people want, this is what I think of when I have the option to change my name or if I want to change my name

I don't see any reason why people should even argue if they can change their name or not. The argument of simply "Roleplaying" does not help either you or anyone who uses that said argument. Changing their characters name is fine if it's only for just one time, hell shouldn't hurt anyone really maybe SE because they have to go through their database to change some data.

[Felis]

ok, let me try again
we are role playing
what does we role play as?
we role play as an adventurer in a medieval setting
do we have a suitable environment for that?
we have castle, busy business city, lively port city, and god-forsaken town in a middle of a jungle. we have knight, mage, mystical creature with a bit of magi-tek blend on it
does changing your name, your gender, heck even your race is logical while role playing in this kind of setting?
I don't know, but I don't think it's possible. Currently this setting doesn't have the proper technology to do so. what do you think?

There is magic. I'm sure there is a spell to change the gender which some specialist medic know. And for name change, if you change your gender you change your first name, if you married someone you change your last name.