arcane

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How gracious of you to design a policy to benefit yourself at the expense of others and then *gasp* agree to it. Very noble.

You need more than a “strong possibility that lots of wanted names are sitting in [currently] inactive accounts” to justify just seizing all the stuff on their accounts. Just be grateful some of us care about your claims to your own stuff more than you care about a single one of us. Such principles might wind up working in your favor one day.

There’s a vast world of words between the simplicity of “Super Boy” and the gobbledygook of “QZ3#%7G” you seem to be neglecting. I suggest speaking to the Name Assistance Brigade. TBH the fact you got a name like “Metal Ninja” on any of the 5 servers is evidence to me that we’ve barely begun to scratch the surface as far as available names go.

Yep, I find most names I try (surely >90%) aren’t taken as long as I put on my anti-obvious cap (don’t waste time trying “Lady Fire” or “Ice Man”).

If you’re implying we should consider taking names from level 50’s, you’re going far beyond the proposed policy we know about. A little too far to negotiate with.

Eh, I was more getting at “no evidence the people with a problem will even be appeased”.

We would probably still get threads asking to expand the policy for as long as some people don’t get every name they want.

Munitions Mastery is pretty good tbh. Body Armor is what it is. Cryo Freeze Ray can be a proc bomb attack. Surveillance is awesome. LRM is fine as a filler nuke if you proc bomb it. Skip Sleep. I have it on at least two of my blasters and enjoy it.

I would personally rather stick +Res where it’s reliable (Jab’s proc rate is way too low). I try to put that where it’s going to have a 90% proc rate. It’s more valuable and reliable as a proc than the absorb one, so I usually don’t bother trying to get the absorb off at all unless I can just put both procs in a damage aura. At 6 PPM and with added recharge enhancement, the absorb may not even go off at 90% in KO Blow. For the most part, I wouldn’t even use my T1 as a Tanker.

Yes, this is the crux of the debate. I just happen to lean far towards the side of something like “current ownership probably trumps the possibility of future ownership as far as rights and stuff are concerned”.

I’m not saying you can’t pick a rule of thumb time period like that. I’m only saying you’re just plain lying if you think you’re going to avoid doing harm with a rule like that. People WILL come back outside of those bounds, and if you create that rule, you WILL seize names of players that aren’t actually gone for good. I couldn’t care less what the exact time period you pick is. One year, two years, it won’t change a thing. I prefer the “Never” solution because it is the only “Do No Harm” solution available at this point.

If you think you’re innocent of belittling people in this thread, we aren’t going to be capable of communicating any further, I’m afraid.

No time period would be allow you to declare that officially, unless the party in question dies or something. Therefore, you have two options: (1) leave people alone or (2) go ahead and step on some toes. The option I don’t like is (3) go ahead and step on some toes but gaslight people about it by claiming there’s nothing selfish or potentially harmful to that.

Absolutely. What proof have you provided that a player has no intention of utilizing something though? As I already mentioned, time away from the game does not reliably constitute proof that the player will never play again.

Considering you have no rebuttal to my point and posted some unrelated comment (I don’t have a character named arcane, do you?), uh, yeah, ya did. Don’t worry, I’ve already accepted your declining to rebut my point as an admission that I’m right 😉

Honestly impressed at the unprecedented ratio of red herrings to relevant responses.

Having two options, “get my own” or “take someone else’s”, and even thinking about the latter is, factually, by nature, selfish.

Erm nope only posted facts

The devs can step in and do whatever they want, yes. Does not change the fact that the fundamental divide in this argument is between people that feel entitled to their own stuff vs people that feel entitled to everyone’s stuff

Def false equivalence yeah. One player wants a name that’s available and the other is just seeking to seize other people’s stuff 😉

Mass Confusion being up every other fight is a reasonable compromise for being an “I win” button imho.

After revisiting a mind dom, I regret to inform you all that Mezmera is right.