Name Change

Short of deleting and starting a character over, is there any way to change a character's name once created? Or would this trounce all over the database?

To my knowledge this is not possible.

Theoretically, allowing name changing should be relatively simple from a database/coding standpoint, especially if allowing it was planned from the code's inception. But allowing name changes causes far too many other in-game problems that make it not worth it IMO. Just as one example: Easy name changing is a scammer's wet dream. Pull a scam, change your name, rinse and repeat.

yea being able to change your name would make scamming more common

also if you were able to change your name, wouldnt you not be able to equip everything that is personalized? you would need new armor and usually a new weapon, so not worth it

when u first make the character just pick a name u know u will like forever

Actually on a database it's not that easy. They're more then likely using the name as either the primary key for the character database table(s) or a foriegn key for the other tables so that your stats and inventory stick to one character.

Once it's assigned as a key, allowing it to be dynamic could corrupt the hell ouf of the database after a while. Since it's the one stat we really can't change, that's more then likely the case.

If planned from conception, characters could easily be accessed by a handle or ID number. The name would simply be a field making it easily changeable in every aspect of the game. I have no idea how the coders actually did choose to store/access characters, but either way the in-game issues are far more important than the coding involved. Most RPGs do not allow name changing, and for good reasons.