Originally posted by Zeraph
I think I will call myself \"Zeraph Fulgur\" because it sort of means \"six winged angel who was struck by a bolt of lightning\" (if you count Zeraph as ?Seraphim?) Would this fit into the ?Moderated & Approved Names? category? My char will be a Klyros with 4 invisible wings who was struck by lightning or something?.
Lol! I\'ll write a sign with that description and put it next to the pile of ashes that was Zeraph before Fulgor!
Originally posted by Zeraph
My current name right now is ?Zph? I like it because it is soo quick & easy for others to spell & makes the Tell command allot less hassling?
I totally agree that \"good\" names only are usable if they don\'t need to be typed in. However, this is being taken care of. What an IRC client can do, surele PS can do as well. Also, PS can do other things, there has been a bunch of suggestions and also quite a few threads talking about ways of communication in PS, like:
- separate channels for separate groups of ppl.
- name autocompletion
- nicknames that you can set in your friendlist (i.e., you assign nicknames to others, but only you will ever see the nicks)
Originally posted by Zeraph
If you can?t roll-play because someone walks by with the name Killah, then you do not really have a very good imagination or roll-playing attitude in my opinion.
If they merely walk by, it will not bother me. If, however, they start to talk to me it does bother me because I can\'t take them serious. After all, what is the purpose of trying to RP if you are not willing to start with a good name? It surely shows disrespect for the RPers and RP in general.
Originally posted by Zeraph
Whenever Killah is mentions I always thing of ?Attila the Hun? leading an army or something. Some peoples imaginations are so limiting? :]
Whenever Killah is mentioned,
I think of some n00bish teen who barely knows how to start an IRC client and who thinks the recently downloaded nuker makes him / her a hacker. The best suggestion for Killah to have any justification is as spelt by someone who doesn\'t spell very well, like if a
really dumb Kran talks to a guard. It\'s not a name and it\'s not even a nickname IMO, because if someone would be nicknamed \"Killer\", it would still be spelt correctly, because it\'s others who define nicknames, not the bearer of one.
Originally posted by Zeraph
But I really do not want numbers & people talking 1337 talk so numbers & profanity should be banned from names!
But I would like the ability to have capital letters in your name as you choose, but not to have duplicate names so to the server ?TheWolf Offire? is the same as ?Thewolf Offire? so that should take care of the case were someone names themselves ?DoLf McClAy? they would just be able to have ?Dolf McClay? & no other capitalization changes would exist, if someone tried to enter ?DOLF McClaY? the server would say ?That name is taken??
If the background specifies names like \"TheWolf Offire\", capital letters would be necessary in the middle of names. If not, there is no justification for either being named \"The Wolf of Fire\" nor for it being written without most whitespaces. With proper spacing, the need for arbitrary capitalisation is removed.
Originally posted by Zeraph
I wonder if someone will try & name themselves ?Mad Dog? or ?Black Beard? or ?Grease Lightning? lol. That would cheer up my day, especially if they choose ?Joker/Performer? as a profession? 
I thionk toe major problem is the perception of naming in general. The fact that the player gives a name to the char leads to the impression that the name is really just a label that only affects the player. This is true in single player RPGs (but even there the other ppl. talk to the char by it\'s name, which IMO looks really dumb if the name sticks out like a wart), but in MMORPGs it\'s different: the name is part of the chars history, not a label. It is the first thing others get to know and the first thing they base judgement on. IOW, it affects everybody and if you don\'t want it to fit, why the hell are you trying to RP anyway? Remember, someone might call themselves \"Minion of Laanx\", but the fact is that this person\'s
name in fact is \"Seytra K\'Haryg\" (I made up this surname this moment, didn\'t take long). So no matter what you call yourself, your birth certificate will show your
real name, the one that was given to you by your parents (who certainly didn\'t anticipate your killing career, but wanted a name that they thought makes a good impression and doesn\'t make you laughingstock in school, which \"Killah\" certainly would.). That\'s what names are. The fact that there are some nutters who try to call their children \"Seven of Nine\" or \"Jesus Christ\" doesn\'t change this, and I certainly am grateful that my parents weren\'t that stupid.
Originally posted by Zeraph
?( A Name is a Label. What Would You Label Yourself? & Shouldn?t it be Your Choice? The game should get boring to hard-core-hack\'n\'slashers & 1337 people anyway & they will be shunned by society anyway, maybe it could even turn them into RP\'ers?
So why would we cater to them by allowing their n00bish names, then? And as I said, a name is
not just a label, and it in fact
isn\'t your choice and also shouldn\'t be that in PS
unless you change reproduction to laying eggs that are left alone to hatch and grow up, in which case nobody would be there to give out names. The fact that you as the player are given the choice of naming your char in fact means that your very first RP is done by you
before you even have create your character, namely at the beginning of the creation when you choose a name!
A name isn\'t like a folder on your harddrive, that can be called \"k3wlGaM3\" without affecting anything except yourself, it\'s your visiting card and in fact it is given to you by your parents, whose role you get to play on creation because no qualified person exists besides you. It gives you more freedom than IRL because you can choose an mane you like and base it on your intentions for that char, but you still need to make it something that
realistically could indeed also have been given to your char by it\'s parents if they actually existed.
Edit: Here\'s an example...
http://thenoob.keenspace.com/d/20040610.htmland
http://thenoob.keenspace.com/d/20040701.htmland
http://thenoob.keenspace.com/d/20040721.htmland
http://thenoob.keenspace.com/d/20040723.html