[NCSOFT & Homecoming License Announcement]

Congratulations on the status change!

[Who took my name???]

We should have some kind of Name Policy to keep people from keeping names they aren't using...

 

Oh wait...

Except it is trivial to get to level 50.

[I remember when...]

FF didn't always have a tram.  You had to get there through Talos.  Barefoot, in the snow, uphill both ways.

 

I remember when TFs didn't auto-exemp so you had to have someone within the level range exemp you, and you'd be kicked from the TF if they disconnected.  We once lost half a Posi team that way.

Yeah, I remember my first Positron TF taking 9+ hours, ending at 3 AM local time in the morning. I also remember my first Dr. Q TF taking 7.5 hours (also in one sitting).

[Who took my name???]

-The ORIGINAL UltraViolent

You can do a "/getglobalname <character name>" to find out.

 

That being said, I couldn't get my signature name on Torchbearer due to someone snagging the name before I could get on, so I can definitely understand your feelings.

[Can we lift the name restrictions already?]

Near the end, didn't they implement something that would free names up on accounts that hadn't been used in X amount of time?  Perhaps a "character hasn't been used in X amount of time and the name becomes free again" type scenario?

 

I remember them doing so.  A time limit would be good.  I think 1000 character slots is way too generous too.

Sadly, they don't have a way to prevent multi-box accounts, though that really should be a part of the code-of-conduct.

 

The solution that the live game had was they did a name purge about 2 times on accounts that didn't log in for x amount of time. That wouldn't seem to apply at this time here.

 

Personally, I'm in favor of a Champions-type naming convention. Arcanaville was opposed to that due to privacy issues.

[Can we lift the name restrictions already?]

Yeah, @Arcanaville and I had many discussions over the merits and drawbacks of both game's (CoH and CO) naming conventions.

 

However no change was possible at that point. From my understanding, changing it to the Champions model would require quite a bit of work to accomplish.

[Any survivors from Triumph?]

I probably don't need to introduce myself.

 

Anyways, I'm on @Snow Globe

 

I have the local "Snow Globe" on 3 of the Homecoming servers (not Torchbearer though).