Legal Name Change

Obtuse

Obtuse
I would like to put forward the idea of having the ability to change your commander's name. I have 2 ideas on this.

1. At capital systems (Sol, Archenar,ect.) have an office at the station where for a certain number of credits you can legally change your name.

or

2. FD sells a 1x use name change on the cash store.

I would be perfectly happy with either, curious as to what you all think.

What brought this idea on, is that as I played more and more I got into the whole RP aspect, and now as I formed my ig character I would like to make it Commander William Obtuse instead of just Obtuse.
 

Elgered

Elgered
I think it is a good idea.

Buying a one-time voucher in the store and redeem it in a very special location, that may even require a special permit (not too difficult, maybe with some sort of story, maybe under control of the pilots federation).
 

Obtuse

Obtuse
Making a bit of a story out of it would be cool, I like that idea a lot, I just kept it simple cause figured fdev have enough to do as it :)
 

Beornfrið

B
I think if it cost a reasonable amount of in-game money and there was a publicly-accessible record of changes then it would be a good idea. The cost, in my opinion, needs to be low enough to be accessible but be high enough that even high-flying pilots can't just earn the money back within the space of twenty minutes.

By the latter, I also mean a combined idea of displaying any name-changes with details of player kills. It saddens me to see "young" players in Haulers/Adders etc seeing me near them in supercruise and, based on my ship and rank, doing their best to avoid me. The stark reality is that I have three PvP kills to my name and only one of them was in a fair 1 on 1 fight. I have literally no desire to interdict and kill another player unless there is a very specific reason to do so.

It would be nice if we could access a "Pilots Federation database" and find out a little bit more about commanders that we meet.

As an aside, I also think it would be fantastic if we earned 'ribbons' for participating in Community Goals. It would be pretty nifty to look at your commander's profile and see not only statistics but a cluster of ribbons earned throughout the galaxy (especially if you're participating for role-play reasons and not just chasing-the-money).
 

Elgered

Elgered
Obtuse said:
Making a bit of a story out of it would be cool, I like that idea a lot, I just kept it simple cause figured fdev have enough to do as it :)
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yes, I remember an old game, Asheron's Call, where you could respecc your character after doing some sort of a short quest (very long ago^^)


Patrick_68000 said:
Change the name of commander would destabilize the coherence of the game with the other players ?
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In other games, people have lots of different characters and no one has a problem. But I would really sometimes whish to choose another name:)
 

Samosa

Samosa
I'd be happy to have the option to pay at the store for a name change. Somewhere between $5 and $10 sounds reasonable.

I'd be surprised if the technical aspect of it would be more than "UPDATE cmdr_data SET cmdr_name = 'xxxxx' WHERE"...
 

Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
Samosa said:
I'd be happy to have the option to pay at the store for a name change. Somewhere between $5 and $10 sounds reasonable.

I'd be surprised if the technical aspect of it would be more than "UPDATE cmdr_data SET cmdr_name = 'xxxxx' WHERE"...
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The clause "WHERE" reserve sometimes many surprises ....

;)
 

Bladesteel

B
CMDR Zadian Lichtfrost said:
How? Serious question.
Is the name of a CMDR something important? If the name change doesn't clear any bounties there shouldn't be any negative consequences. Guess I'm missing something.
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Well there is a certain commander that is infamous for ramming players in stations. If he could change his name at will it would be easier to catch commanders unaware. And he could hide from players wanting revenge.
 

stoicfury

stoicfury
JeffRyan said:
It's open to abuse though.
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Echoing the other poster: how? Merely stating it is open to abuse and not stating why or how is pointless.

And if FD made it cost $10 to change, I'm sure they wouldn't mind people "abusing" all they want. More money for them, with no real benefit in game.
 

Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
CMDR Zadian Lichtfrost said:
How? Serious question.
Is the name of a CMDR something important? If the name change doesn't clear any bounties there shouldn't be any negative consequences. Guess I'm missing something.
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For other players, a new commander name must be accompanied by a list of old names of this commander. Some players have personnal accounts to settle with other commanders ...
 

stoicfury

stoicfury
Bladesteel said:
Well there is a certain commander that is infamous for ramming players in stations. If he could change his name at will it would be easier to catch commanders unaware. And he could hide from players wanting revenge.
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Ramming is against the rules, he would be recorded and banned. But even if he's infamous for griefing people in a totally legal way, I don't see how that's a problem. He'll "trick" players one more time per name change and then his ruse will be up. In practice though this would not change a thing, players aren't going to let themselves be griefed by a stranger regardless of their name. Esp. they add a fee, if someone wants to pay $10 every time they want to trick me, that's fine by me. Give FD more money so they can add some developers and add content faster!
 
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