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

[QUOTE=Shimus DarkRaven]as a old freind of mine said who had his thumb blown off doin just this. if someone puts a gun to your face and says your money or your life you grab the gun and beat them with it. cause there is no Guarantee they wont just kill you anyway. remember a dead witness is no witness at all. my point is this if the guy is gonna kill you he is gonna kill you money or no.

I would support this, as I have a character that is running around with a typo in it's name - but it would have to somehow be limited.

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It would be nice to switch characters without having to actually "Log Off".

That has nothing to do with changing your character name...

[QUOTE=darkdragon99]and there is also the possibility of forcing someone to shoot you who did not mean to shoot you before you forced the action.

the police have the best stats on outcomes and they say your best CHANCE to get out with a whole skin is to do what they say and hand it over.

you were LUCKY BOY you were not smart or courageous.

lets say the mugger facing you has an ounce of brains and is standing far enough away so you cant just reach out for the gun.

gun is pointed at you with plenty of time to simply pull the trigger and watch you fall.

he says toss you wallet over here and get the hell out while i pick it up.

will you be a coward and toss the wallet and run?

or will you be a real man and try to take away the gun? (and die trying)?

evolution in action

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This feature should have been in the game already...

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~why not?

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boo ya!!!

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Without mentioning scammers it should be a very good idea. The editing ur looks to, my warrior looks way to pale! Have like a npc barber in town and cut ur hair for 5k. Maybe having a limited amount of changes. Just like the changing territory, 5 times. Might bug so now and then with people keep on changing their names.. like ppl making new char's and the name's already taken when a sec l8a it's changed.

~ Wheez.

i want this option. i have played on my monk for over 600 hours. i mispelled priestess and am stuck with preistess forever.

would be nice to be able to change the template after the character is made. maybe not their facial structure the rest is more realistic.

i secound that... i just got done playing lineage2 and once u make ur character u can buy what is called hair style potions/hair color potions/and even face potions...it was pretty neat...at first they were only avalible throu some event or something like that now they can be bought throu a special store...o god if guild wars dose that ill be haveing a hard time deciding what style i want for the week again >< ne ways GOGOGOGO hairPOTS!

More support, come on.

Am I the only one who's read the developer's comments on this subject? Let me paraphrase them for you: "We're not doing it." I believe I read it in one of the Fansite Fridays. They said reputation was the reason. I suspect it's technical work as well.

I think what MSecorsky said is right. Everything in the game seems to reference you by your character's name. Your guild membership, your /whisper, your targeting, and probably everything else, like how the system knows to send a message put in All chat to you. Your name is like your social security number (or social insurance number for us Canadians), except even more important. A change like this probably affects thousands upon thousands of lines of code.

This sort of suggestion has come up in other online games and the developers usually say, "that's not going to be technically possible."

LoL. You deserve to be punished

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I value my Idiots (ignore) List. I don't want to have to group with them ever again.

i really dont see the name change as a big issue..makes it too easy for people to just randomly change their names like it was underwear..Names are important. Maybe people ought to put more thought into it instead of spastically puking one

i concur. i'd like to be able to change everything but my primary profession and gender after i've already created my character w/o losing the gold i put into it (15k dun grow on trees ya know )

It's technically possible because they already give people who's name has been deemed offensive the option to rename. And just about everything else in your post is incorrect.

The ability to change the name of your characters in Guild Wars is a feature that we are considering as an addition to the game, but is not an option at this time. (The only exceptions to this are characters with names that violate our User Agreement or Rules of Conduct. Such characters must be renamed by their players with an automated name violations tool, or the character must be deleted.)

If a name-change feature is something you would like to see as part of the Guild Wars service, then we encourage you to share your suggestions on one of the many Guild Wars fansite message boards.

i think this is a good idea, but you should not be allowed to change your name infinitly, it would be abused and nobody would know whos who. it should have a set number of uses e.g. 2.

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This does not have to be a problem. It would be easy for your Ignore list to simply update with the new name, much like your Guild updates with each new Character you create.

Your friends list could also auto. update with new name.

Also, in the interest of knowing who's who, when you Mouse over their name, it could say "Formerly so-and-so." This would resolve any scammer issues.

I have yet to hear any decent argument against this.