135279-rename-my-character-really

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			What is so important about having a first and last name on here that I have to get rid of my novelty ID's that I got back when the game first launched?
			
				
	Edited October 1, 2015 by NorsteinBekkler	
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			When the created megaservers, they realized many of the names would overlap with other players. They went through the data and talked about how few names were truly unique, and that was why they implemented this.	
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			I hate it too, I'm terrible at picking last names, but we deal with it like everything else, yeah?	
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What is so important about having a first and last name on here that I have to get rid of my novelty ID's that I got back when the game first launched?
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If it's a novelty name become creative and put it both slots or add something to it.  Not that hard.
 
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			I also don't like to use the second name. All the names i use are one name only and won't fit with second name	
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Yea, my name was always Pansy in all the games I've played. They made me change it.
 
Well, might aswell make the best of the situation..
 	
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			I like it and think it gives the characters more personality, but I can understand your frustration	
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What is the "novelty ID" that you were using?
 
 
 
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Yea, my name was always Pansy in all the games I've played. They made me change it.
 
Well, might aswell make the best of the situation..
 
 
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I just don't understand why they couldn't have allowed those that already had them to keep their one name ID's and just had the characters post-switch be created with two names instead.
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			idk id rather have 2 names than having to see names like xXxSepherothxXx...of course you can now have two of em side by side.. i guess its a no win situation	
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What is the "novelty ID" that you were using?
 
 
 
 
lol
Funny but I'll be somewhat surprised if you are not forced to change that at some point.
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I wish they did that too, but I think they wanted to level the playing field so to speak. 
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idk id rather have 2 names than having to see names like xXxSepherothxXx...of course you can now have two of em side by side.. i guess its a no win situation
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I just don't understand why they couldn't have allowed those that already had them to keep their one name ID's and just had the characters post-switch be created with two names instead.
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and which player should have got to keep the name when 35 Bacon's ended up on the same server?
this way was a fair solution for everyone that allowed players to keep their character name by adding a last name to it or add a title like dr as a first name or split the name in two or add a title to the end. get creative
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For the most part, I love having the option to enter both a first and a last name. It ensures I'll get the names I want (since they always end up taken otherwise). However, it does pose a bit of a problem when trying to create characters who don't have a last name. I find myself staring at the naming screen, trying to come up with something that doesn't look dumb for half an hour, getting annoyed and just typing in whatever and regretting that last name forever.
 
However this time, I finally came up with the perfect name for my draken warrior, Cerberus. I took one good look at his face and typed in Grumpypants. And thus Cerberus Grumpypants was born.
 
Best. Name. Ever.	
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			Consider this an opportunity to come up with something even more unique and novel.Consider renaming Bacon as Canadian Bacon. Or Kevin. Or Bacon Prime.Okay, so I suck at names.
			
				
	Edited October 1, 2015 by Tuscatsi	
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			Though this does put me in mind of the problems we encountered back in the original pre-launch with the name reservation system...	
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Its so simple.
 
Keep the current name creator. But let people have the opption to hide their sir name from their nameplate label.
 
 
Like SWTOR does with the Legacy name.
 
I oughta apply to game developer.	
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			I like Bacon Prime. Even better if it's a Chua name... someone needs to make Bacon Prime the Chua.	
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Though this does put me in mind of the problems we encountered back in the original pre-launch with the name reservation system...
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Not very novelty when you put something completely irrelevant behind it.  Kind of like the difference between Bacon and Bacon_21.  There's a difference in having the original, untainted form of a screen-name and a knock-off.
I just don't understand why they couldn't have allowed those that already had them to keep their one name ID's and just had the characters post-switch be created with two names instead.
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Funny but I'll be somewhat surprised if you are not forced to change that at some point.
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What they should of done is handled it like GW2 did.
 
You can put spaces, you can not put spaces, you can have one name, you can have a first and last name, you can have a title in your name, a three or four word name.....DO WHATEVER!
 
 
THEY did it in a great way.	
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I had Cid, Aizen, Altair, Lucca, and Match. ( name that my friends in Mumble know me by )
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Not crazy about it but definitely understand.
 
I went from "PsyMon" to "Psy Mon". Just looks weird as a last name.	
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WELL EXCUSE YOU. Mr.Valdimir Putin is here to stay. And so is this guy.
 
 
TIME TO OPEN A CAN OF DEMOCRACY ON NEXUS BOYS. 
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What they should of done is handled it like GW2 did.
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Don't remind me! T_T I felt so gimped when I first started in WS because of this.
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Great comparison, isn't it?
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What is so important about having a first and last name on here that I have to get rid of my novelty ID's that I got back when the game first launched?
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What they should of done is handled it like GW2 did.
 
You can put spaces, you can not put spaces, you can have one name, you can have a first and last name, you can have a title in your name, a three or four word name.....DO WHATEVER!
 
 
THEY did it in a great way.
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I actually remember them saying that their coding for spaces in names wasn't feasible, but they managed to figure it out when megaservers happened. Unfortunately, we lost that post with the forum wipes.
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I cannot deny that would have been the preferred way but I don't know how Carbine's programming or coding works, other than to say it doesn't work like anyone else's even if it does have the same result as some others.  Without that info, it's hard to say whether this was a choice or a limitation.
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I actually remember them saying that their coding for spaces in names wasn't feasible, but they managed to figure it out when megaservers happened. Unfortunately, we lost that post with the forum wipes.
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I just don't understand why they couldn't have allowed those that already had them to keep their one name ID's and just had the characters post-switch be created with two names instead.
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What is so important about having a first and last name on here that I have to get rid of my novelty ID's that I got back when the game first launched?
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How does the whisper, or mail, or any other communication system know to send the message to UniqueName or UniqueName LastName?
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But this isn't spaces being added to naming, this is two separate identifiers being given to a character.
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			It's not unlikely that it's kept as two fields, in case there are times when the character is referred to by the first or last name exclusively.  It gets around having to code specifically to allow a space/spaces in a single field, and concatenation is a trivial operation (it's likely that all references to something like character personal information is done through a view which automatically concatenates the fields with a space between).	
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Whenever your character is referenced in the game, it's "firstname lastname". Inputting the character name is done through two separate fields, but it might be combined into one entry in the database.
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