To the OP's point, well unfortunately if those names fall under the legal naming convention as set out by Frontier, then quite frankly that's just the way it is.
If they're close to 'special' names, then by all means make legit names stand out to show they're special.
To all those people who are complaining in this thread (even though it's off topic) about names with punctuation or numbers, and how it's breaking immersion for you, well I feel sad for you, really I do.
FD have made players have unique names, so obviously not everyone can have the same one.
Does this mean they will choose random seldom used names (out of a hat) or a variant of their original choice, hmnn probably the latter.
And why should they choose a random name.
If I ban your first 2 choices and make you pick another you'll cry foul and no mistake.
This discussion of leet names, if it was going to be discussed at all should of been done in the DDF, and long before alpha, and certainly before the KS Web applet allowed you to pick a name.
I was a KS backer and my first choice was disallowed as an earlier backer had taken it.
He may of backed an hour earlier or maybe only a fiver, makes no difference he was first.
It later turns out he may not even want that name, insult to injury.
If FD changes naming policy, well I'm fine with that, and will change it without question, so long as all current names are banned and everyone has to choose a new one, or its variant.
My name was legit when I chose it, moving the goalposts now would be grossly unfair.
While you're talking about immersion and leet names, I hope you people boycott
Films with characters names with numbers ie IG-88
Twitter handles with same ie KarenGillan2
And have a right go at people who spell their name (badly) on car number plates.
If you can't tell if Dave, D4VE or Dave- killed you before, well that's easy, if you died you should never meet him again (or vice versa) as your dead and can't be killed twice by the same person, it would break yours, and their immersion!
