Unhappy with your character name, but don't want to lose your time and energy?

This feature would be a great addition. I know I have one that needs to be renamed...LOL

My two cents:
I suggest creating something like "NameList" for each account, consisting of 5-10 slots. Player can add names in this list and delete names from it. Player can change his character's name to every name in this "NameList". But other names in this list are protected from choosing by other players, so these names are belong to the player.
The goal of this list is not to lose your name, for example:
Player1 changes his name to Player2;
Player3 changes his name to Player1;

Sometimes you need to change your character's name for some time, but you don't want to lose your previous name. For example, your PvE-character's name is "Quiet Gentle Ranger", but you played HA or TA a lot with your PvP-character named "Uber Pownage Ranger". You've met a lot of people in PvP, they remember you. When you return to your PvE-character after half a year, people do not recognize you. It would be useful to change your PvE-characters name (if "NameList" will be created, there won't be a problem with the same names of the characters on the account) to "Uber Pownage Ranger", when you go to PvP or you send a message to the friend you met in PvP.

P.S. Sorry for my English.

Best Regards,
Ung

Its a nice idea, but I doubt i would use it. I see it infringing on alot of stuff such as ignore lists.

Aslong as the previous names can be re-used then this shud be fine.

Good idea, I currently have one character that I might delete due to its name. The only thing that keeps me from deleting the character is the amount of money I've spent on it. A name changing ability would be really helpful.

pls pls pls /changename !!! I have decided to create a new character several times and had a name in mind that I wanted to use to find that every variation of that name is taken, so instead of trying different ones for hours I just put anything in there so I can get started then later a name "comes to me" but too lat I have spent XXX hrs and xxxx $ on the character I already have

:S I've remade most of my characters...this would have been really usefull a while ago lol.

It would be a nice addition, go for it!

What I would really want is the ability to change your whole character's name, appearance and hairstyle etc. without restarting the character.

As far as the whole thing about changing your character's looks are concerned, hairstyles I can understand, but not faces.

On a realism standpoint, hair is an easy thing to modify. It can be cut, grown out, styled, colored. But a new face? Even with 21st century plastic surgery it's still a difficult process to undertake.

Do you really think that it could be done in the Sword & Sorcery world of Guild Wars? A sword sure isn't precise enough, and a spell might turn you into a frog, or a pile of ash, more readily than re-sculpt your face.


/signed for a hairstylist of some kind.
/notsigned for changing faces.
/undecided about names.

I'm in favor of being able to change your name. But as Struth said it should have a limited amount of times you are able to do that.

I created a character just for kicks didnt mean to play it but as fate would have it i did. Got it to lvl 20 and bought luxon 15k armor, but I hate the name being able to change the characters name if you are not happy about it will allow us to have a better in-game experience, and we wont look at our great characters with tired eyes, just because of a name.

/signed

This is a great idea, I have a very old character that I cant bring myself to delete but does not fit the same naming system as all of my other characters. This would be ideal.

Of course, some sort of anti-abuse should be implimented with this, so you wont have people changing names every 2 hours.

/signed

You get x amount of name changes for every x amount of weeks?, months? the character has existed.
And please don't make it an ingame option. Add a button on the character select screen so that people can't change their name in the middle of a convo.

/signed BUT only under the condition that it takes a full 7 days to change your characters name. Otherwise people can break all kinds of rules then quickly change their name and do it all over again and not get caught doing it.

This gives anet time to still be able to track people down easily.

I support this and also think we should be able to modify the characters appearance. I think we should have the ability to change the characters appearance if Anet is able to change the characters appearance like they have done before. It's very saddening to have the notion that you want to change these things at a later date when you have invested an insane amount of time into your character. I also think you should have a limited amount of times you can do this, like the way you can change your home districts.Take a poll please Gaile and make it happen.

/not signed

Want a new name ? Make a new char ^^

/signed ish

I like the idea cause i made some of my characters when i was new and i really dont wanna spend all that time doing all three chapters on them again but have really crap names, but maybe make it so its like the changing home lands like from american to koria ect where you can do it but only a limited number of times then you are stuck with it for good....

plzzz... just once would be nice lol


(Minion Master Sicks - necro) gets old rofl

I don't like the idea of people being able to change names. Character creation should be one of the most thought of processes of the entire game, solely because of the fact that you get stuck with it. If people rush through it without really thinking, it's their own fault. If you have a stupid name, that once you thought was funny, and now realise it's not, I think that that name should be a constant reminder of you not to do it again.

However, I do think you should be able to change hairstyles. Not faces or height, just hairstyles and the colour. With each new game, there are better hairstyles that look more realistic and exotic and beautiful. For people playing with a Tyrian character in Elona, you just think "Damn, I wish I could have cool hair like that!" But faces, not only would it be unrealistic to be able to change them, but they haven't changed very much, and the same goes for height.

/signed of course. But this idea will never become true, to be honest.

/signed I would like this also, i dont see a reason why it would be bad, your name is still part of your account so u can be found either way by other players.

/signed if it is only 1 time / character