Sealawyer, on 22 August 2014 - 04:56 PM, said:
I think what Datsu means to say is. Buckminster is listed in the word list as forbidden to use. As you can see our unit name is based of this planet. From what I have read in the rules this is aloud. We are not using any forbidden names, as no unit has ever existed in the lore. But we did use a planet name. Not sure how you can say planet names are off limits to use in unit names. Recently Datsu tried to use our name on the test server to create our unit and could not do it because of this. So I am asking is using a planet name forbidden in a unit name and if so why? How can people try to stay true to the lore of the game if you forbid this? And why allow things such as Black Widows of Vancouver but not allow a unit named such as ours? Will you make exceptions for this? And will there be some way to lodge a protest for a unit name if the game servers block it? And please do not say put in a service ticket. That process can take a extremely long amount of time.
One other thing I would like to point out is on your list of acceptable units is the 42nd Donegal Guards. Which is copying a lore based unit, also using a planet name. So if you are allowing this example, our unit name should be acceptable.
Oh, believe me, I'm totally with you on this, but the reason 42nd Donegal Guards might be an acceptable name is because of the 42nd part of the name. There is no 42nd Dongegal Guards in 3050 probably...someone want to verify this?
I'm all for changing the lore-crackdown, but there's a lot of resistance from some folks who think that people are going to be fighting for the same name. I don't see it personally. Maybe with Wolf's Dragoons and that's about it and they're only a bunch of mercenaries who are going to die at the hands of the Ryuken anyway.
I can see this lore-crackdown causing more trouble than it's worth when you get to planets like Hell and other worlds that might be named off of Earth locations.
Edited by Arcainite, 22 August 2014 - 05:34 PM.