Silly, Unrealistic Names

[Zorium]

Kuiper I would imagine you would only allowed to be a II, III, IV, V etc... if you were a decendant of the original owner of that name.  Also a limit should be imposed so no Kuiper Seniasi MCMLVIII

-Zorium

[snow_RAveN]

Heck lets Fight for our last names ! Think a 24 men/women Steel Cage Death Match ! The winner(a.k.a. last man/woman standing) gets the name !
  J/k

Back on topic.

I agree that names like N00BZilla or flUffYBunnY will spoil the game. Warnings should be posted every where, tell the masses that this is a RP game and over the top nicks will not be allowed. And give an example list of names that are useable, so the 11-year-olds wont have an excuse.

[Danny]

i agree to some extent with the number thing.. because of this l33t stuff (which i dont even understand) but with silly unrealistic names like mcdonalds or soemthing like that i think its up to the player to choose there name not you.. if it doesnt match the theme of ps it doesnt really matter its just a name.. and i really dont understand why or how it could effect so many people.. theres allready 3 topics about names and number.. and to be honest its all a bit silly..

the only thing i agree on is max length, max use of numbers.. and min use of letters in an alts name.

Many thanks,
   Danny

[Jadd]

This is a MMORPG, and not some FPS ? la Counterstrike or  hack n\' slash MMOG like Tibia. RPG stands for roleplaying game, and therefore names like Ronald McDonald/G. Bush/Cow96 isn\'t suitable for this genre.

A random generator is a good alternative, especially if you want to know what name-style a certain race like Kran, or Enkidukai follows. That way you can create a name based on the generated names to create your own unique name.
The generator could always be upgraded as well when people come up with decent names, and contributes these to the name-generator, and that way you will have lots of names to choose from.

The system looks very promising. Keep it up

[Black_rose]

i like it but what if we had a guild name generater so that your last name would be your guilds name if required like for example if your guild was the darkstorm guild then the last name would change from

Red Bandit
to
red darkstorm

also prefixes for crtain classes like military classes could be added

red darstorm
to
commander red darkstorm

[snow_RAveN]

Why not send in your name for aproval ?

You could get a bunch of players (Devoted ones) to moderate the names ?

[Icefalcon]

also prefixes for crtain classes like military classes could be added

They already show the rank of the guild you are in. I think thats enough. And I am glad to hear that there will be last names.

[Harwen]

Originally posted by Danny
i agree to some extent with the number thing.. because of this l33t stuff (which i dont even understand) but with silly unrealistic names like mcdonalds or soemthing like that i think its up to the player to choose there name not you.. if it doesnt match the theme of ps it doesnt really matter its just a name.. and i really dont understand why or how it could effect so many people.. theres allready 3 topics about names and number.. and to be honest its all a bit silly..

the only thing i agree on is max length, max use of numbers.. and min use of letters in an alts name.

Many thanks,
   Danny

Danny, sorry to say, but that\'s weak. Of course its up to \"us\" oh wait, you didn\'t make the game so it could be populated by \"Spongebob69\" did you?

Either way, Jadd is 100% right. MMORPG, Role-Playing meaning that with something so small as a name you are ruining someone else\'s game. Its just childish to truly need  a name like \"SkaterBoi99\". Scratch that, childish and stupid.

Why not send in your name for aproval ?

You could get a bunch of players (Devoted ones) to moderate the names ?

I\'d do it, I\'d love to do it. In fact, I\'d give reasons or suggestions to every name that I would find unacceptable.

[Icefalcon]

Im sure people would be willing to do that, but once the game starts to be big and we have hundreds of new players each day...that might become difficult. Not to mention that you would have to wait for a reply confirming your name before you could actually play the game.

[Seytra]

AND most importantly, there _will_ be abuse! If you let arbitrary players mod names of ohers, ther will be problems:

- I don\'t like you, you don\'t get that name!
- I\'m in a bad mood today, no name for you!
- I hate that name, don\'t know why!
- I have a power trip, so nope, you need to _beg_ me first!
- I happen to know some ancient, almost unknown tale from my home country (little northeast Grandstan) in which a char has a name very similar to your proposed one, no name for you!

As can be seen everywhere, like in IRC chans. Furthermore, the names decided upon would then not be decided by the community, but by individualy. Has problems.
Also, even in small groups like forum mods you still get numerous complaints on biasedness or arbitrariness, what will be going on if we had hundreds of name-mods?

So I think the random generator would be good (if it would not select from name lists but really generate names, using phonems. So at least you have a start that will have the ppl. who want a quick start happy. Ppl. with a concrete Idea can check this against the generator. This will reduce the silly names to the ppl. who _want_ to offend, and these will show up and then be caught easily, reported and have a good name assigned. The case of someone accidentialyl choosing a stupid name (maybe because they _really_ don\'t know gandalf...) there will surely be an informative comment sent by the mod who will change the name, wouldn\'t there? If you approach ppl. with reason instead of brute force, chances are they\'ll agree instead of feel oppressed.

[Kiva]

The random name generator in CB is capable of producing (according to acraig) an infinite number of names, so you people have nothing to worry about just yet. Nothing at all. When the number of characters reaches 2 million, then you can start worrying if there are enough names. Until then, lay down and take a rest. As for the name squad, we have the GMs in CB already. They will take care of people with bad names.

And I will say again, numbers are not usable in names, nor are characters like $?@?{[]}|`?=)(/&%?#\"!?+\'*?^~ and whatever you might be able to write with your ASCII knowledge, so those wont exist either.

[FESFES]

i would like strickter char name creation buyt i use one of 2 names in evry game i play ( what if it doesnt accept killerv or flyingv )
what if like once a month there is a post here with the all the names of the currents players and the ppl mod and higher could go and discuss if they find any unacceptable and make the player change their name (not lose their char but just change name)

[Kiva]

FESFES, you might want to change to your creative side for a moment. Killerv isn\'t exactly a fantasy name, it\'s rather a nickname from a bad sci-fi movie (that is my honest oppinion - sorry if it hurts you, but it\'s true). When creating your character, think more along the lines of a \"name\". Imagine yourself in the situation where you and your wife have just got a baby and you have to name it. Be creative, think of your character as a living person, not just some flat, pixelthing on your sreen. After all, it is your little baby, you have to name it, protect it, and make sure it doesn\'t die.

[Seytra]

Originally posted by Gronomist
FESFES, you might want to change to your creative side for a moment. Killerv isn\'t exactly a fantasy name, it\'s rather a nickname from a bad sci-fi movie (that is my honest oppinion - sorry if it hurts you, but it\'s true). When creating your character, think more along the lines of a \"name\". Imagine yourself in the situation where you and your wife have just got a baby and you have to name it. Be creative, think of your character as a living person, not just some flat, pixelthing on your sreen. After all, it is your little baby, you have to name it, protect it, and make sure it doesn\'t die.

Full ACK!
How can one even _think_ about RP if something so essential and also basic as a NAME isn\'t even made to fit the setting? Or would you name your baby \"killerv\"?!?!? It would IMO not even do for some MechWarrior game...

[Ashfen]

You could get a bunch of players (Devoted ones) to moderate the names ?

I would be willing to do this, im on the net more then enough so i have plenty of time on my hands.