ZacKing

Nice thought but it'd have to be a whole lot better than the Nemesis system in CO. The one is CO is very underwhelming and big letdown IMO. I mean really it sucks. You're better off doing this stuff in AE here since you have full control over their look, actions and dialogue.

LOL! You're welcome. Zardoz is an underappreciated masterpiece.

Need to have or nice to have or somewhere in between it doesn't matter. You're advocating for a policy while at the same time saying people will just come up with other names so it's no big deal. Pick one.

So even though you're admitting people just come up with a different name, you still feel like you want a name release policy, even though you're admitting people just come up with something else if a name is take. Either it's a needed thing or it isn't. Pick one.

Then there's no need for a name release policy if everyone can and does come up with a different name.

Going to call BS on this one man. You don't have any idea how many inactives there are with every character slot on every server used, if there's any at all.

Making a big assumption here that people who joined in 2019 used up every character slot on every server name squatting.

No worries man I don't take it as an attack. I'd prefer no one get upset or offended which is why I said its worth the huge undertaking to rework the code to allow for names to work like they do in later Cryptic games. And for those who will complain, yes I know its a huge, huge, huge job to do that. But then no one has to lose out on a name they might like. In this case here where there's a lot of names on dead accounts from when the game was made public in 2019, I don't see the problem releasing them if those accounts were not logged in at all for 2 years or more.

Having auctions for names gives an unfair advantage to existing players who have the funds. Newer players who are inf poor would lose out.

Are you reading some of your posts? LMAO

Like I said before, it's ok for someone to get upset so long as its the other guy. that seems to be the prevailing mentality. What about the people logging back in to come back and finding all their stuff renamed and quit out of frustration?

Man calm down. If you actually read what I wrote - and re-posted for you - I totally agree with the two year login thing is reasonable. However it sucks for anyone who would like to come back to have their stuff all renamed though. You're saying you're not ok with anyone getting upset, then go on to basically say exactly the opposite because you're deeming the time frame reasonable and "oh well you can log in" so it's ok your stuff got renamed. So yeah, for the people that may take extended breaks or whatever coming back may suck for them. People who've abandoned the game to never return is no issue.

I guess you missed this... Now there's been a couple of people here who've said they do take extended breaks from the game and it would suck for them to be returning to find their stuff all renamed. But like I said, it's ok for someone to get annoyed so long as it's the other guy.

Correct. It's ok someone gets annoyed in this equation so long as its the other person

Dropped last night!

Isn't it interesting how the "they can just think up a new name" thing only works one way in these discussions?

Just my 2 inf but it should go by whether an account has been logged in. If an account is still active a person has the ability to contact a name owner to discuss whether or not they want to release it. If an account hasn't been logged into at all in years, it's probably safe to say they aren't coming back.

Biting the bullet and re-engineering the base code to allow for character name to be done by character name/global combo would avoid pissing anyone off. Before people start bitching, yeah I know it's a huge, huge job to do that. I'm just saying its an investment worth making if this game is going to last IMO and HC want to show what they can really do with the code.

Re-engineering the code to allow for names to be based on character/global combo is a really worthy undertaking IMO. It's how Cryptic did it in their later games and this isn't an issue there. But you know, we need those stupid travel power changes! that's a priority!! some consideration does need to be given here for that. if an account hasn't logged in in a couple of years though, chances are pretty good they're gone for good and level 49 and below names should be released.

We've already said the HC folk here work on what they want to work on, so it doesn't matter much if they ignore anyone does it? If they want to ignore me, more power to them. I'm not going to cry about it. Sorry it hurts your feelings though. Like I've said, you express yourself the way you want and I'll express myself my way.

Maybe you ought to learn to read? It's their server, they can do whatever they like good or bad. They can set whatever priorities they want and I'm not demanding they change that. Not everyone is going to love every single change made here though. Sure it is. It isn't how you might have expressed the opinion, but I'm not you. Like I said before, you do you and I'll do me.

No one suggested we should be dictating anything to anyone. The HC folk can work on whatever they want to. we as their community can express our approval or disapproval of any changes they make though. If they didn't want to hear any criticism, they'd have changed this forum section to "praise and affirmations only".

Good I'm glad! You never get the full view when only looking at one side of the coin.

Thanks all. appreciate it!

Thanks man appreciate it. Super annoying to have this moved out of options menu though.