Name change

[Teliopas]

1. It's not a deterrent if they are already doing it
2. The consequence is the loss of funds
3. I don't understand your point, if they aren't unknown for long why does it matter if they change their name? I think you just made my point for me.

Not going to continue the numbered list chain of quotes. I do understand your point that they really could just server transfer and force a name change that way. I understand that is a necessary evil and cannot be avoided, however this will still make it more of a sacrifice for most of the first 2 of my original points because a good portion of these people will bare with it rather than leave all their friends behind. As for second chances and people can change I wholeheartedly agree and what a better way to change your attitude then to roll a new character or transfer to a new server. Name changes would just enable people to do whatever they want, then change their name every 3 months or whatever the timer is. As for the third point we can't stop everything bad from happening but if it becomes a real problem then SE can hold open transfer periods where we can transfer to new servers but only during specified times. This would let people transfer to servers to meet up with RL friends and whatnot but prevent people from freely transferring changing their name and getting away with whatever dastardly crimes they committed whenever they want.

The bottom line is bad decisions do have consequences, and us giving these people more options to avoid karma slapping them in the face is just us supporting these peoples behavior. I understand it is a game but people come to this game for enjoyment but it is hard to escape and enjoy yourself when you have to deal toxic players. Enabling them to continue to act like that is just asking for more to follow along and I'd rather repair the damage then to further destroy this community. SE clearly doesn't care about the major issue people are having with giefers and they are overwhelmed with the number of RMTs we are plagued with so unfortunately we as a community need to help karma along with our own brand of justice, and that isn't possible if we beg SE to enable offenders to avoid scrutiny by disappearing with a name change.

I'm not saying no never to name changes period but I am saying no here and now because I know SE wont implement a system to prevent toxic players from escaping community justice while allowing others to simply change their names because Bubba McMuscles isn't a good name for a character gender/race changing to a female lalafell or a kid finally passes the pre-pubescent stages and realizes that his character CloudXXX StrifeX is just the same as a toddler running around in an ironman mask and wants to pick an actual personal unique name now that his brain isn't running off of duplicating observed content.