Silly, Unrealistic Names

[Kiva]

Originally posted by Black_rose
who says it was the mother that named them that? well i started a book about a man (forget the name) that was highly wounded in battle but his body was signed up for genetic research and the tinkered and so he became a pyro, he was well known amoung soldiers as torch but that was not the reason, the reason was that he had killed off over 500 men with one flamethrower in an hour.

And that is where you mess up completely. Now, ask yourself. What is \"torch\"? Is it a) his name, or b) a nickname he has been given due to his actions? It is b, yes. On his birth certificate, it doesn\'t say Bob \"Torch\" Madman, it just says Bob Madman, because that is his _NAME_. Torch is the _NICKNAME_... Name... Nickname... See the diffrence?

[icebr4kr]

Maybe the PS community will shun players with odd names and they will fail in the game. I don\'t think names should require approval before creation and random generators are only appropriate if ideas are needed. The society will naturally discourage these players (they will not get a job/buy a house). If the community shuns these names, it would be a deterent to create them and supplemented with GM\'s spotting the names will keep the amount to a minimum.

[Syzerian]

But thats just mean!
Its much easyer for a gm to type /who then look through the list and contact whoever has a bad name at that moment in time. The person with the bad name can either make up their own one or have the gm give them a selection of a few from a random name generator

[Kiva]

Originally posted by Syzerian
But thats just mean!
Its much easyer for a gm to type /who then look through the list and contact whoever has a bad name at that moment in time. The person with the bad name can either make up their own one or have the gm give them a selection of a few from a random name generator

You seem to be the first person who has understood and agreed with how things will work in CB. Incredible, I say. I thought noone would ever get it.

[Orikhra]

the reason was that he had killed off over 500 men with one flamethrower in an hour.

is it me or does this sound a bit like rambo

[FESFES]

this is a little off topic but did ui no the US army has flamethrower tanks? you guyz should look into them there really cool (ill post a pic of one if i dont get lazy)

[Zorium]

OT: FESFES, flamethrowers are banned under the Geneva convention.  Unless your suggesting the US are above international law  X(

Its much easyer for a gm to type /who then look through the list and contact whoever has a bad name at that moment in time. The person with the bad name can either make up their own one or have the gm give them a selection of a few from a random name generator

As Gronomist said I think you hit the nail on the head (well at least to the same effect as Gronomist )

-Zorium

[FESFES]

thats weird........ iv seen them on some paper my friend had that showed how they work and pics of them being used (when was the geniva con. sighned it mayy have been from before it)

EDIT:http://history.searchbeat.com/vietnamwar/1966action.gif

http://bcoy1cpb.pacdat.net/Lifebuoy_flamethrower_Cdn_Army_WWII.jpg

EDIT EDIT:i guess it was before the conv and y did i think it was the US?

by the way how do i type the name so the pic will show here (pls use one of those urls as a ex) TY^^

[Syzerian]

As Gronomist said I think you hit the nail on the head

Is this a good thing or a bad thing ?(
I guess the weird thing is that I had no idea the devs were planning on doing it this way

[Harwen]

Originally posted by FESFES
thats weird........ iv seen them on some paper my friend had that showed how they work and pics of them being used (when was the geniva con. sighned it mayy have been from before it)

EDIT:http://history.searchbeat.com/vietnamwar/1966action.gif

http://bcoy1cpb.pacdat.net/Lifebuoy_flamethrower_Cdn_Army_WWII.jpg

EDIT EDIT:i guess it was before the conv and y did i think it was the US?

by the way how do i type the name so the pic will show here (pls use one of those urls as a ex) TY^^

FESFES, use PM\'s for things like that, the Quote function still works for PM\'s.

@ Gronomist, Thank you Grono, like everyone else said, you\'ve hit the nail on the head.

[rifft]

You know when you apply for a legal name change I think there ARE rules and other such things.

I was going to start a new thread, then decided to use the *SEARCH* button. So I found this thread.

One things I would like to say against having GM\'s enforce naming. In general it would be a bad idea, since PS is a free game, I think there will be a massive population explosion, that the GMs would not be able to control and therefore unable to enforce nameing.

A few reasonable Heuristics is not too much IMHO, since that\'s how traditionally people are named.

Things like enforcing Proper capitalization, and disalowing number and other characters from the name of our hero.

Things like 00doodz000_coolNeSS_187

should not exist... ever... in any RPG. This could be easily enforced, but not many games bother. I just wish that our devs would ensure that such things are not possible.

I mean things like Lordhoe would still be possible, but they are not nearly as annoying as leetspeak in RPG char names.

Anyway just though I\'d throw that out there.

Please consider the fact that GMs won\'t have the time nor patience to enforce naming... that\'s all I ask, simple heuristics would solve many leet names. (Oh and it might be a good idea to distinguish username, from character name, such that usernames must be unique, and may contain whatever characters, where as Proper names don\'t have to be Unique, ie John Smith and don\'t need to contain special characters)

Oh and things like Bob Dole the 3rd. is easily specified with just chars.

Bob Dole III

There, that was easy.

Ok, done...

[Kiva]

Numbers, underscores and more than one capitalized letter is not possible to put into your character. You may write it all in caps, but the server will automatically change it to Blaah instead of BLAAH.

As for the name changes, they wont be enforced unless the GM runs into someone with a bad name. And it wont really take long. The player will simply be asked to think of a name, or the GM will think of one for him (by using the random name generator, of course).

But I can\'t agree with the extension to names by putting numbers on it. It\'s simply an easy way to impersonate someone. Ludo Longfoot is a very famous shoemaker, and some n00b d00d thinks it would be cool to steal some of that fame by making a Ludo Longfoot II. If he gets to do that, it\'s bad.

[Fish]

After all the good names are taken up you might have used up 2,000-3,000 names.  However, it keeps going and going.  Pretty soon even the odd names are taken.  

Then it comes to the point where you\'re totally exasparated because everything you type in comes up with name taken even the random character sequences until you type in

Hell, I don\'t know.  

And the computer takes it.  

So, I love academic arguments like the one you all are engrossed in.  But, practically speaking if you try to keep it under 5 characters there are only so many combinations you can come up with.  Unless you want to pm somebody named

SirRoderickTheGreatKnight

With absolute no typos good luck.    

I say unless they\'re using profanity outright whatever.

[Monketh]

Advances in the graphical user interface should make it easier to /tell SirRoderickTheGreatKnight with little risk of typo.

I still don\'t want to see U83RS|<83R walking through town.

[Melbourne]

Originally posted by Gronomist
Numbers, underscores and more than one capitalized letter is not possible to put into your character.

So would I be able to use O\'Brien or would it turn it to O\'brien?