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[pseudolife]

so, Im assuming I will be using this name in game. its kind of my standard internet handle. so i didnt really think about it when creating my account.

HOWEVER in true nerd fashion im kind wishing i had gone with a more battletech sounding name. which brings me to my question. are players going to be allowed to copy names from the canon? and if there is no plan for policing player names, should there be?

Im probably overnerding it here but are any of you really cool enough to be Kai Allard-Liao? or have one of the registered bloodnames?

Im thinking no.





edit: i spelled canon wrong

Edited by pseudolife, 18 July 2012 - 08:41 PM.

[Zyzyx66]

Many canon names for people, places and units are reserved in order for the canon timeline events to take place as they should. So I guess if a random background character with 2 lines of dialogue were chosen it wouldn't matter, but you won't get far trying to call yourself Katrina Steiner.

And AFAIK, it's not (yet) possible to change your name anyway, so I guess it's a moot point

Edited by Zyzyx66, 18 July 2012 - 08:54 PM.

[PANZERBUNNY]

I suggest using kerensky as a last name.

[Brenden]

Brenden Weaver over here, or Michael Gant, Ethan Hawk or Heinrich Schrodinger.

[pseudolife]

PANZERBUNNY, on 18 July 2012 - 08:53 PM, said:

I suggest using kerensky as a last name.

i think ive already seen it, that and kell, ward. my inner nerd rages with... outrage, or jealousy that i didnt do it too.

[Connor Macleod]

Well since I'm blatantly stealing my name from a movie from the 80s about a guy who's been around for four hundred years cutting the heads off of other people like me, and the develop still haven't asked me to change mine yet, so they can't be too over zealous about names here. But just once I want to get behind the wheel of an awesome, head cap someone with PPC fire, and as the lightning cackles say over the Mic, "There can be only one. I KNOW EVERYTHING, I AM EVERYTHING!" Kudos to anybody old enough to get that reference.

[Brenden]

Connor Macleod, on 18 July 2012 - 09:11 PM, said:

Well since I'm blatantly stealing my name from a movie from the 80s about a guy who's been around for four hundred years cutting the heads off of other people like me, and the develop still haven't asked me to change mine yet, so they can't be too over zealous about names here. But just once I want to get behind the wheel of an awesome, head cap someone with PPC fire, and as the lightning cackles say over the Mic, "There can be only one. I KNOW EVERYTHING, I AM EVERYTHING!" Kudos to anybody old enough to get that reference.

Highlander Reference, funny. You got a critical hit. Still, why not just call yourself Albert Einstein? I saw someone named Bruce Jenner and his favorite mech is... The Spider.

[AuGuR]

Connor Macleod, on 18 July 2012 - 09:11 PM, said:

...Kudos to anybody old enough to get that reference.

now I feel old.. wah!!

Seriously tho, I think taking the names of iconic personalities a bit unimaginative. I can understand using surnames of those same characters, and maybe even putting a removed reference to being a relative thereof your character's bio. An example being "Augur Davion, 2380th in line for leadership of FedCom. Part of the family, but nowhere near a presumed 1st name basis. Same with the clanners assuming bloodnames, by trial of course.

[Mantis]

Brenden, on 18 July 2012 - 08:59 PM, said:

Brenden Weaver over here, or Michael Gant, Ethan Hawk or Heinrich Schrodinger.

"Oh my god it's ethan hawke!"

[Icehornet]

I've been using Icehornet for a long as I can remember now. Changes are, if you see the name Icehornet, it could very well be me.