Make it ultra expensive so trolls won't spend their money :)(click to show/hide)
But if you make it too expensive no one would reserve a name anyway because no one would want to pay too much money just so they don't have to add a underscore at the end of their name :lol:
You underestimate the power of a name.
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."
Are Scholar names already reserved?(:D)
I'm fixated on this idea:
Can obese characters be a stretch goal? Make me bankrupt myself for your game.
Or even a unique reward for donating could be the exclusive option to make fat characters.
Ban the use of any and all numbers, imo. :D
You underestimate the power of a name.
And the willingness of people to spend money on completely trivial things.
Let everyone who pre-kickstarted login on the melee page once with their prefered username and then the rest can just live with it just like in all other new games.
You know you want to!
I think the 'first pledge, first serve' mechanic is good enough. I don't see why you should specifically moderate who picks what name when it comes to names used in cRPG, as you won't do it for names used in other games. If Panos pledges quickly and reserves the name GTX, then so be it.
I find it stupid how much people want to be rewarded for having played cRPG in a completely stand-alone game, especially if they lacked the decency to fork over 50 or even 15 euro's at the start of all this. cRPG players should not enjoy any rights over pledgers coming from other games, why the fuck should they? You played a free mod, good job, get over it. Good way to alienate complete newcomers. I believe the intention is to have a whole lot more people take an interest in this game than this inbred little community of 2000 players.
So Teeth you think this community contributed nothing by playing this mod for 4+ years, giving feedback, whine, the good and the bad. I see us more as 4 year beta testers than anything else, much was learned from both sides game balance wise, animation wise, map wise... I say we did contribute. But that said I don't think we're the chosen kind and devs should cater to us, but a name is no big deal.It's not like playing this game was some altruistic act of self-sacrifice, we enjoyed playing this game, much like other people enjoyed playing other games. I don't see why we should get our dick sucked just because we liked to play this mod. Besides, cRPG players got the opportunity to support development early on and will probably be forewarned about the arrival of the Kickstarter. From that point on I don't see why for example cRPG Cicero should get priority to reserve his name over the hundreds of other Ciceros. Let alone having any name used by a cRPG player reserved by default, as some people are suggesting. If Tetris Cicero reserves the name Cicero first, he should get it.
whatever you make.make levels more imported like old crpg. not new player friendly :mad:
It's not like playing this game was some altruistic act of self-sacrifice, we enjoyed playing this game, much like other people enjoyed playing other games. I don't see why we should get our dick sucked just because we liked to play this mod. Besides, cRPG players got the opportunity to support development early on and will probably be forewarned about the arrival of the Kickstarter. From that point on I don't see why for example cRPG Cicero should get priority to reserve his name over the hundreds of other Ciceros. Let alone having any name used by a cRPG player reserved by default, as some people are suggesting. If Tetris Cicero reserves the name Cicero first, he should get it.
whatever you make.make levels more imported like old crpg. not new player friendly :mad:
The question that popped up is - what do we do if there is a conflict. What if some troll reserves the name of someone else just to fuck him over. Any ideas?
Real talk if there's a legit problem just have admin sanctioned duels over the name
I just know someone will take Umbra again....
Oh you guys would love that. I honestly don't care, why would i pick that name again? There would be no good reason to pick it. I would rather just let it die out, and start fresh, so all the dumb tendencies from c-rpg don't get translated into the new game.
whatever you make.make levels more imported like old crpg. not new player friendly :mad:
The exact opposite of what makes a game good.
Go download any one of the million generic asian MMO's and grind like true Sperg if grind is what you want.
If you can't think of a name unique enough not to be taken by any other person, even as a joke or trolling attempt (not to mention the possibility to "repair" it with a single letter difference without losing it's content) then you probably don't deserve that name in the first place, even in a virtual world. I wouldn't play a char called Teeth, pTx or Micah even if you paid me 5000 euros in advance. I'd rather not play at all, even if the game was the best I've ever played.I wasn't really counting on a body part being a reliable or good nickname anyway and I will probably rename for any new games. I agree though, if you as the devs value the cRPG community and notice people reserving certain names just to grief, you could probably manually interfere as I doubt there would be very many instances. Perhaps that does require a disclaimer for name reservation though.(click to show/hide)
Yeah, glorifying killing people based on their race, that's a good start. Honestly I think such a name should be bannable both in cRPG and any new game.
I CALL DIBS ON THE TURKSLAYER.
I am with Teeth on this one.
Melee will be a commercial product and not some nerdy mod... those kind of names shouldn't be allowed,
Turks aint a race.Race is a social concept, not a biological one. Turks are as much a race as black people are.
But then again, Basel the Bulgarslayer was such a neo chocolate chip cookie :lol:An emperor that lived a thousands years in an empire that was at war with Bulgars had a comparable nickname, thus it is okay for you to do the same now in an international community that contains many Turks? And yes, he probably was a pretty bad racist and the people that named him probably were racist as well. Teeth the Jewslayer does have a nice ring to it I guess.
Race is a social concept, not a biological one. Turks are as much a race as black people are.
Race is a social concept, not a biological one. Turks are as much a race as black people are.
An emperor that lived a thousands years in an empire that was at war with Bulgars had a comparable nickname, thus it is okay for you to do the same now in an international community that contains many Turks? And yes, he probably was a pretty bad racist and the people that named him probably were racist as well. Teeth the Jewslayer does have a nice ring to it I guess.
Race is a biological concept, not a social concept.Race when used to classify humans is rarely used in a strictly biological sense and it is highly debatable if it is useful at all. In every day of the word 'race' people are definitely not referring to differentations made based solely on genotype. Even if you want to go with a strictly biological definition, Turks might be definable as a race, although I have no idea how biological definitions of human races even work. As you seem so sure of your biological human races, I'd love to see you enlighten me. What human races do exist according to you?
Turkish is a nationality, like french, english, or whatever.Turkish is far more than a nationality, at the very least it is a very large ethno-linguistic groups spread over many countries. If it was solely a nationality then Panos' name would be even worse, as it would refer only to the current Turks living in Turkey, you know, the ones that are playing this game as well. I hope that Panos is only referring to inhabitants of historical Turkish kingdoms.
The use of the "race" term to define a skin color is archaïc, and wrong according to biology.Yet this use is by far, and I mean by far, the most relevant use of the term in language today, which demonstrates that race as a social concept, exists regardless of there being biological human races. And has done so for a long time.
if the turks are allowed to have pictures of Kemal Ataturk posted at this forum (who commited a genocide against Greeks), then I think I`m allowed to use the TurkSlayer name aswell.I don't see why.
Race when used to classify humans is rarely used in a strictly biological sense and it is highly debatable if it is useful at all. In every day of the word 'race' people are definitely not referring to differentations made based solely on genotype. Even if you want to go with a strictly biological definition, Turks might be definable as a race, although I have no idea how biological definitions of human races even work. As you seem so sure of your biological human races, I'd love to see you enlighten me. What human races do exist according to you?
Turkish is far more than a nationality, at the very least it is a very large ethno-linguistic groups spread over many countries. If it was solely a nationality then Panos' name would be even worse, as it would refer only to the current Turks living in Turkey, you know, the ones that are playing this game as well. I hope that Panos is only referring to inhabitants of historical Turkish kingdoms.
Yet this use is by far, and I mean by far, the most relevant use of the term in language today, which demonstrates that race as a social concept, exists regardless of there being biological human races. And has done so for a long time.
I don't see why.
It didn't descend into calling people racists, I started with calling Panos racist. I think equating the way you feel about your ethnicity with the way people from regions like Turkey or the Balkan should feel about theirs, ignores some very important historical differences. Personally I couldn't give a flying fuck what you see about my country, language or ethnic group, that does not hold for everyone though. As a developer team that sells a product, you shouldn't want your game turning into 4chan.
You can't avoid it, and once it's done, there's nothing to do !
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You can't avoid it, and once it's done, there's nothing to do !We were actually discussing a name-related issue when you came along all smartass with the Wiki-definition of the term "race" in a biological sense which in no way relates to the daily use of the term... so thanks Algarn for de-railing the thread.
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We were actually discussing a name-related issue when you came along all smartass with the Wiki-definition of the term "race" in a biological sense which in no way relates to the daily use of the term... so thanks Algarn for de-railing the thread.
There's no race as far I remember, since science proved, thanks to genes, that the genetics variations between individuals of a same "group" are more important than the genetic variations betweens different geographicals groups. Those guys in America that are trying to find biological arguments to make re appear the term "race" as a biological term are wrong, and are outlawed.
PS : This means basically there's more genetical variations between "white" people than variations between black and white people. It also means that people trying to find things to create sub groups within the ONLY race, the human race, are pure retards.
PPS : I was just pointing out the use of the term "race" is wrong, I'm not insulting anyone in this thread. Maybe it's time to get back on the actual topic.
this is ignoring southern slavs ofc lol fucking pathetic
Slav is a way of life. (http://slavsquat.com/) Everyone can be slav in soul. Let us squat together and forget our differences.
I tried squatting in my room once. Can't do it, I keep falling on my back all the time. I can't seem to find my slav balance... :cry:
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I tried squatting in my room once. Can't do it, I keep falling on my back all the time. I can't seem to find my slav balance... :cry:Many westerneuropeans have that problem. because they never squatt some muscles are not stretched enough.
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