Melee: Battlegrounds Crowdfunding - Name Reservation Reward

[[ptx]]

Wait, what, are you people seriously arguing about name reservation in M:BG for... cRPG players? Are you fucking serious?

Why should players of ANOTHER GAME get the right to reserve a name in M:BG? You are, of course, aware, that not all, perhaps not even most, of cRPG players will be buying and playing M:BG?

[tkn123]

Anyone who takes the name Shagga will have my goats to answer to.

[Smoothrich]

Real talk if there's a legit problem just have admin sanctioned duels over the name

[Kalam]

Real talk if there's a legit problem just have admin sanctioned duels over the name

Man, you're the Richard Dawkins of trolls. I want to disagree with you because it's coming from you, but the truth is I agree with most of what you say. Honestly, Teeth and PTX are right.

However, if it HAS to be an issue, let it be decided this way.

Because Kaoklai should be able to call himself cmp.

[Micah]

We would only alienate ourselfes from other players if we implement name reservation other than first to come, first to take. Even most "romantic" attached people should understand, that cRPG and Melee has to be handled as complete different worlds or perhaps as a complete reboot - with no exceptions. We should take care to not let swap to much cRPG into Melee ... im serious ... its not healthy.
What worth for the community one player has, should be worked out at place after the game launch or in beta. It should not be "transfered" over.

We should be careful to not actively support elitism and powerstruggle.

imo Star Citizen did not very good in putting to much attention to wards high pledgers ... its splitting the community.
Or did they ? Afterall, those high pledgers are exactly the people who pulled the pledge-maniac-train as far as it went.

[Gnjus]

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.

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As for trolls: you can deal with them quite easy: if someone names himself Teeth just to hurt our dear philosopher here so he ends up being a common Tooth we'll all know who the real Toothpick is, if the false Teeth guy acts like a jerk and starts trolling, insulting, getting banned, etc you can easily "eliminate" him and "give" his name to our decent dutch chap there. Common sense + few clicks of some admin's mouse and the issue is solved. No big deal.

[BlindGuy]

I just know someone will take Umbra again....

Well its a pretty comon nick tbh.


On topic: I payed my money already, i can has name "chadz"? I lik dis name.

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.

Noone makes jokes about GTX because of the name, you tool, the dumb tendencies WILL go over to any game you play because they are YOUR tendencies

[Rebelyell]

well I have my name in game already, so what is the problem?
On other hand you can fake existing name with so many ways anyway....

[BlindGuy]

whatever you make.make levels more imported like old crpg. not new player friendly 

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.

[Sigibert]

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.

hear hear

[Teeth]

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.

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As for trolls: you can deal with them quite easy: if someone names himself Teeth just to hurt our dear philosopher here so he ends up being a common Tooth we'll all know who the real Toothpick is, if the false Teeth guy acts like a jerk and starts trolling, insulting, getting banned, etc you can easily "eliminate" him and "give" his name to our decent dutch chap there. Common sense + few clicks of some admin's mouse and the issue is solved. No big deal.

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.

[Torben]

It would mean a lot to me to recognize the old crpg players by there names.  Hence having an advantage to reserve the crpg name in some way might make my gaming experience in M:BG greater greater.

not a big deal,  but it would be welcome

[Panos_]

I CALL DIBS ON THE TURKSLAYER.


PANOS THE TURKSLAYER

[Teeth]

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.

[Panos_]

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.

Turks aint a race.


But then again, Basel the Bulgarslayer was such a neo chocolate chip cookie