Add a number to it.
N.B. You can also separate names using more than one space if needed.
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Why are CMDR names unique?
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Add a number to it.
N.B. You can also separate names using more than one space if needed.
thats lack of player imagination - nothing to o with fdev.
although, fdev could add all those names to the profanity filter, that would stop them
And you still have some other person claiming my achievements, or false flagging my reputation. It is not about feasibility of implementation, it is about one player's rights being placed below another.
Every one of the arguments in favor of this has ignored the fact that there are in game consequences being applied Against the current name holder in a demand to strip them of exclusivity. In effect, this is an argument of privilege for the person that didn't get here first.
The Warcraft and ICQ arguments are false equivalences because there is nothing that applies a unique name in the environment. Both of them are strictly player interaction, whereas this environment applies labels IN THE GAME based on your identity.
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I think it is a problem, try to make a gmail adress if you are not thinking of a weird name then your screwed.
But with a little imagination you may get far...i used my birthday/month here, that is pretty unique and says nothing about your age but you could add a year to that.
Want your own name, put your city or country ect with it "Texas_john" or so...
It is something to think about BEFORE starting to play and when you're setting up your id and the name is taken you should stop the game and think this tru, take your time and use google...also for ship names, i used google to find me gods/goddesses that had something to do with healing, bringer of food & meds ect...alot of names i found there.
Use your fav. sports player or club, use a movie character and put your age next to it like above.
I guess it involves not beeing stupid and lazy in the first place tho, but think before you act.
But with a little imagination you may get far...i used my birthday/month here, that is pretty unique and says nothing about your age but you could add a year to that.
Want your own name, put your city or country ect with it "Texas_john" or so...
It is something to think about BEFORE starting to play and when you're setting up your id and the name is taken you should stop the game and think this tru, take your time and use google...also for ship names, i used google to find me gods/goddesses that had something to do with healing, bringer of food & meds ect...alot of names i found there.
Use your fav. sports player or club, use a movie character and put your age next to it like above.
I guess it involves not beeing stupid and lazy in the first place tho, but think before you act.
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All true. There's too much of a mess possible if names are not unique, especially in a PvP environment.
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Nope to all of the above past my OP. Not good enough. You know how many cities there are named Portland? You know how many Martin Luther King Jr streets there are?
Your need to have a unique smell to your urine doesn't impress me.
The argument about griefing by using names is also weak. It's big universe. Allegedly. Shouldn't be an issue. If it is, you got bigger problems in your playerbase than can be wrangled by targeting this avenue. There are much much more egregious forms of griefing which are never addressed.
Basically I'm not swayed by post hoc justification to keep things the way they are because that's how they are.
I've never been in the game. I never will be until names are not required to be unique.
I've returned my game, explained why, what happens beyond this, I no longer care unless they permit me to have my name regardless of some other person having it.
I'll be using this same measure to judge all MMO's in the future.
Your need to have a unique smell to your urine doesn't impress me.
The argument about griefing by using names is also weak. It's big universe. Allegedly. Shouldn't be an issue. If it is, you got bigger problems in your playerbase than can be wrangled by targeting this avenue. There are much much more egregious forms of griefing which are never addressed.
Basically I'm not swayed by post hoc justification to keep things the way they are because that's how they are.
I've never been in the game. I never will be until names are not required to be unique.
I've returned my game, explained why, what happens beyond this, I no longer care unless they permit me to have my name regardless of some other person having it.
I'll be using this same measure to judge all MMO's in the future.
Correction to my previous post: Nope to all the counterarguments seen thus far.
And some additional consideration on the most eyeroll worthy: the issue of copy-griefing, because I think looking more closely at it better demonstrates my accusation of defending the status quo with post hoc rationalizations.
There are celebrities that have the same first name as me. Some of them are awful, either at what they do or just as people--not an exclusive or either. That has zero effect on me going about my day. Just because I share a name with someone doesn't make me culpable for their actions, nor does it make their actions relevant to me doing what I intend to do. It is as if they are completely different people regardless of their having the same name as me. But maybe I'm unique in that and everyone named Bob is secretly seething every time another Bob does something dumb, and they are being preyed on by other people changing their name to Bob just to do stupid things to upset some other pre-existing Bob.
Pardon me if I just don't see that as a real problem.
And some additional consideration on the most eyeroll worthy: the issue of copy-griefing, because I think looking more closely at it better demonstrates my accusation of defending the status quo with post hoc rationalizations.
There are celebrities that have the same first name as me. Some of them are awful, either at what they do or just as people--not an exclusive or either. That has zero effect on me going about my day. Just because I share a name with someone doesn't make me culpable for their actions, nor does it make their actions relevant to me doing what I intend to do. It is as if they are completely different people regardless of their having the same name as me. But maybe I'm unique in that and everyone named Bob is secretly seething every time another Bob does something dumb, and they are being preyed on by other people changing their name to Bob just to do stupid things to upset some other pre-existing Bob.
Pardon me if I just don't see that as a real problem.
So you can't think of anything original, then?
How is it not more immersive to have people called something sane with a (optionally?) visible unique Pilots Federation ID as the distinguisher instead of the current system with people adding various arbitrary and weird characters all over their name.
Are you -really- saying it's easier to "steal" someone's accomplishment by being called Micha [2345] instead of Micha_2345?
I don't understand the "it's difficult" or the "it lets people steal achievements" arguments. You see a name on screen. If it's similar to another name, you can get confused. Whether the similarity is distinguished by some arbitrary letters being slightly different to the original name, or whether it's by attaching a completely unique ID to the name doesn't change that.
i know it really hit my immersion factor that i had to pick Curry Wurst because there was already a Cmdr Currywurst
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I don't see why anybody would like to be named ....2456 as it would be just a random number, not orriginal at all.
I wonder what they're passwords look like, something like "12345abc" i guess.
Indeed Kari, some people don't know what that word means...
.... Could be worse, they could name their kids "Abcde".
Again, this is a false equivalence. The proper way to have asked your question is, how many cities are there named, Portland, OR 97035?
The answer, of course, is one. What you did was a selective application of data that ignores the aspect that does not support your position.
Your argument is, again, selective, and provably false. I have an alter ego somewhere in the state I live in. He is a convicted felon, and every time that I undergo a background check, either for new requirements to an existing position or a new position, I have to have a discussion with investigating authorities to ensure that his crimes are not laid on my reputation. While our Social Security Numbers are different (note the unique ID), the investigators do not get to run the SSN against their findings.
That is just one example, and ignores the surgeon, writer and the artist who all have my first and (uncommon) last name.
It also ignores the fact that celebrities that have similar names routinely go out of their way to make their moniker unique, sometimes with something as simple as a Middle Initial or Name, but often with hyphenated surnames, generational numbers such as The Third, or even in more recent times, Copyrights/Trademarks, or, as a last resort, changing it to something else.
Finally, Post Hoc is a, "Since event Y followed event X, event Y must have been caused by event X", argument. Unless I am completely misunderstanding you, I don't believe that is the fallacy you mean.
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I think you may have just redefined the notion of "entitlement"
Anyway, I blame your parents for not thinking ahead and giving you an utterly unique name to avoid this kind of issue that is clearly causing you significant trauma.
Good parents would have called you "Rhubarb Sock Squanderer"
I think I just found the name for my next ship. Thanks...