Holy Name-Release, Batman!!! 😱

[dtjunkie]

Here was my haul for the great rename-a-thon - all on Everlasting.

 

Devourer - This was the name I had on Live for my main villain, a Plant/Thorns Dominator whose backstory is based on a Devouring Earth story line. I had been running her as Devourer? on Homecoming. I am very excited to have her original name back!

 

Pele - This was the name I originally wanted for a Fire/Stone Melee Tank I ended up naming Mama Lava. Mama Lava was 50 so now Pele is mine forever. But Mama Lava is back in the wild 🤣

 

Prince Charming - This was the name I originally wanted for a toon I ended up naming Lord Charming. Prince Charming is sooooo much better.

 

Speedball  - This was very exciting because on Live I had a Speed.ball so I was very excited to get this name. This is my favorite name for Kinetics, but I am going to start fresh rather than renaming Whoosh or Fast Twitch (I've grown to love these second choice names)

 

Brute Force and Brute Squad - Brutes are my favorite AT. I have 12 level 50 Brutes, and I have wanted these particular phrases from day one.

 

Oak - I like Rush (the band) and one my favorite songs is The Trees. Excited to finally have a tank named for the mighty oak tree!

 

Tectonic - On Live I had to settle for Tectonix, and I wasn't even able to get that on Everlasting. But my Earth Controller now has her originally planned Live name!

 

Frost Queen - I had settled on the name Ice Amazon for my Ice Dominator. Very happy with the new name.

 

Brass Monkey - I have an entire stable of Nemesis toons (Steam Witch, Battle Hulk, Big Brass Ox, Nemesis T-Rex, Nemesis Tex, Brass Lass, Sister Nemesis, Brass Rikti Monkey) but I finally got the one I had been after from the beginning. Alas, I was unable to secure Lady Nemesis, so Baroness Nemesis remains.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[lemming]

I have no idea if the name was always available or not, but last night checked to see if Cutscene was available. (On a few servers, but I grabbed it on Everlasting)

 

Thinking Tanker, Stone/Titan Weapons.

[Captain Fabulous]

Oooo, picked up another two names I had forgotten about. I used to have a list of names I wanted but I tossed it years ago.

[wei yau]

 

Alas, the first of my characters to lose her name. Ulrika.

 

Ulrika is a member of the Midnight Zodiac, they are Midnighters enlisted in the The Zodiac War, a long running head canon that I use for a lot of my characters.  She is a member of the Cabal and takes her name from the wolves that would stalk the winter in her homeland.

 

I never developed her beyond this and she does have one of my favorite costumes. I'll have to come up with a new name for her, I might just give her a second name, like "Ulrika Hagel" and call it done.

I kinda want to meet this Ulrika, perhaps they are a multiversal version of my Ulrika.  Whatever the case, I hope the name brings you joy and many awesome adventures.

 

Edited November 4 by wei yau

[Zhym]

I was finally able to get this toon (whose name I had on one of the Live servers) his name without a period or dash in it:

 

[ZemX]

On 11/2/2024 at 7:01 PM, Ghost said:

Wonder where the naysayers are that said NO ONE would get any names they wanted when this went live.

 

That was always wishful thinking by people just didn't want the name release to happen.  There was no real reason to believe that all those unused names were somehow all gibberish that nobody would want.

[lemming]

The name release is actually triggering my altitus.  Though in some cases, just getting me to move more chars to Everlasting from Excelsior.

[Without_Pause]

On 11/2/2024 at 11:54 AM, TheMoneyMaker said:

So apparently the name release thing only works for starting a new toon under the name you are creating. Kind of disappointing.

I had long assumed the one name I wanted was already a Level 50. I even checked on the 1st, but apparently the name policy hadn't kicked in. I had forgotten about it until this thread was bumped, and had the same issue with trying to get the name. I officially have it back. I had it on live and it is one of my personal favorites, so no, I'm not giving it up, and yes, it is a Level 50. I had been using it with an added period. 

[MoonSheep]

hell yeah

 

[DoctorPresto]

Hilarious 

[Apogee]

So I got the name Rampart and for the life of me I am stuck on the backstory of Johnny Gage, EMT by day, Defender by night

[Captain Fabulous]

8 hours ago, Apogee said:

So I got the name Rampart and for the life of me I am stuck on the backstory of Johnny Gage, EMT by day, Defender by night

 

[Akalabeth]

I got my name... Mindy.  That's the one I really REALLY cared about. 🥲

 

I also got Chloe (one of my dog's name)

And 4 dogs from childhood/growing up

Gizmo was unsurprisingly still locked or taken quickly and he's a dog I have now too.

 

I released a couple names that might have been taken already like "Jordan" and "Nothing Selected."  I deleted the characters and all. 🙂

[Tiger Shadow]

I can't get my dog's name on any shard. Maybe I shouldn't have named him Superman.

[Neiska]

I half expected there to be a sudden market selling names. Still might happen, like way back when people were snatching up company names when the internet got popular. People grabbed company .com names and were selling them. No idea how successful they were in that.

[Without_Pause]

20 minutes ago, Neiska said:

I half expected there to be a sudden market selling names. Still might happen, like way back when people were snatching up company names when the internet got popular. People grabbed company .com names and were selling them. No idea how successful they were in that.

Depends on when they bought it and what it sold for. One company said they initially used a different URL as the one they wanted was priced at $600k. They did eventually get it. My guess is they talked the seller down to a more reasonable price.

[High_Beam]

13 hours ago, Apogee said:

So I got the name Rampart and for the life of me I am stuck on the backstory of Johnny Gage, EMT by day, Defender by night

That show was awesome!  The Smithsonian had a big display about a decade ago about the show and how it was a key factor in the expansion of the paramedic program in the United States.  If you go to the LA County Fire Department museum, they have both trucks and the squad which were used for real by firefighters even after the show ended.  The 51 truck was actually Universal Studios lot fire truck which is why you see them in a lot of movies form the 70s and 80s.

 

When I was in the Navy, shipboard Corpsmen (medics) referred to the primary first response kit of theirs as the Johnny Gage Bag.

 

KMG 365!

Edited November 5 by High_Beam
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[JKCarrier]

On 11/4/2024 at 11:20 AM, ZemX said:

 

That was always wishful thinking by people just didn't want the name release to happen.  There was no real reason to believe that all those unused names were somehow all gibberish that nobody would want.

I had no horse in this race (There weren't any particular names I was looking to grab, and I was in no danger of losing any). But I am frankly surprised at how many folks are managing to get the exact names they wanted. I'm happy for them, but it also makes me kinda sad, because it implies that there were a bunch of folks who signed up early on, snagged good names, and then just quit playing for whatever reason.

[Apogee]

59 minutes ago, High_Beam said:

That show was awesome!  The Smithsonian had a bid display about a decade ago about the show and how it was a key factor in the expansion of the paramedic program in the United States.  If you to to the LA County Fire Department museum ,they have both trucks and the squad which were used for real by firefighters even after the show ended.  The 51 truck was actually Universal Studios lot fire truck which is why you see them in a lot of movies form the 70s and 80s.

 

When I was in the Navy, shipboard Corpsmen (medics) referred to the primary first response kit of theirs as the Johnny Gage Bag.

 

KMG 365!

 

Between Adam-12 and Emergency!, those were must see shows of my childhood.  

[High_Beam]

1 hour ago, Apogee said:

 

Between Adam-12 and Emergency!, those were must see shows of my childhood.  

I know right?  I was so going to be a firefighter-paramedic when I grew up.  Now I did get trained in firefighting in the Navy, even fought a real one once.  I loved seeing those guys pop up in other things; DeSoto as the bar owner in the good Roadhouse.  Dr. Bracket as the C-130 pilot in Megaforce.

 

Now I have to create a Mantooth.  Only an IV D-5W with Ringers Lactate will cure my altitis.

[mistagoat]

4 hours ago, Akalabeth said:

I got my name... Mindy.  That's the one I really REALLY cared about. 🥲

 

I also got Chloe (one of my dog's name)

And 4 dogs from childhood/growing up

Gizmo was unsurprisingly still locked or taken quickly and he's a dog I have now too.

 

I released a couple names that might have been taken already like "Jordan" and "Nothing Selected."  I deleted the characters and all. 🙂

That's awesome! Congrats! Also, are you me??? lol

I also got my name (Redacted) and both my cats names (Buddy and Marv)!

I'll have to try my childhood dogs name when I get home but it was a 3 letter name so I doubt it'll be available.

[High_Beam]

Funny thing with the pet names.  Our cats all had individual names (Max, Chirp, SNIVIT and Kraken) but our dogs were clearly City of Heroes Compliant

 

Dawg

Dawg II

Dawg 83 (The year we got her)

Dawg With Two G's (We literally called him Dawg with two G's though we just called him Dawg in conversation)

Dawg Gone (The one my parents got in 87 when I joined the Navy)

[mistagoat]

5 minutes ago, High_Beam said:

Funny thing with the pet names.  Our cats all had individual names (Max, Chirp, SNIVIT and Kraken) but our dogs were clearly City of Heroes Compliant

 

Dawg

Dawg II

Dawg 83 (The year we got her)

Dawg With Two G's (We literally called him Dawg with two G's though we just called him Dawg in conversation)

Dawg Gone (The one my parents got in 87 when I joined the Navy)

I can totally picture choosing them from the character select screen! lol

Dawn With Two G's is a pretty great name!

[High_Beam]

3 minutes ago, mistagoat said:

I can totally picture choosing them from the character select screen! lol

Dawn With Two G's is a pretty great name!

But we avoided xX Dawg Xx

 

Even in our cheesienss we had standards 🙂

[Captain Fabulous]

1 hour ago, High_Beam said:

I know right?  I was so going to be a firefighter-paramedic when I grew up.  Now I did get trained in firefighting in the Navy, even fought a real one once.  I loved seeing those guys pop up in other things; DeSoto as the bar owner in the good Roadhouse.  Dr. Bracket as the C-130 pilot in Megaforce.

 

Now I have to create a Mantooth.  Only an IV D-5W with Ringers Lactate will cure my altitis.

Y'all are gonna have me make a empathy Defender named Dixie McCall, aren't ya? 🤣🤣🤣

EDIT: going with Symphony/Empathy Controller, since Julie was a singer. Will post a pic when I finish putting her together.

Edited November 5 by Captain Fabulous