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[Wraith 1]

Almost same thing with me, I made up the callsign "Wraith-1" but then later found out that it was used in the Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries campaign. Decided to keep it though because you only have that callsign for 3 missions or so...

[verybad]

Personally I feel if somebody is enjoying themselves by pretending to be Jaimme Wolf or Hanse Davion or whoever, then who am I to judge?

Is it imaginitve? Maybe not, if it makes them happy, why constrict their enjoyment with such petulant demands on their fun?

In a universe with more than a trillion humans living in the Inner Sphere, there's room for at lease a few Hanse Davions IMO.

[Hunter McGee]

How about Hands Davion?
Jaime VVolf
Grayson Car Lyle
Chai Allard Louw
Dunkin Fischer
Natasha Current Ski


See what I mean?

Edited by Hunter McGee, 17 December 2011 - 07:29 AM.

[Tweaks]

Hunter McGee, on 17 December 2011 - 07:27 AM, said:

How about Hands Davion?
Jaime VVolf
Grayson Car Lyle
Chai Allard Louw
Dunkin Fischer
Natasha Current Ski


See what I mean?

If they use wildcard filtering, alternate spellings (much like major websites do for their domain names), and strip special characters, digits and alt-codes, that won't be a problem.

If someone manages to come up with a similar name with all that, it's probably going to be different enough to be acceptable.

[Tannhauser Gate]

First, Im happy as crap that MWO isnt going to be just a mech game that vaguely resembles BT where the names dont matter, story is barely extant, and canon was barely considered. It's actually going to be devoted to the lore and play out close to the canon timeline. It will use the actual BT map circa 3049, and we can experience BT lives as mechwarriors if we choose. This is beyond anything we dared to hope for.

So, yes. Canonincal names should be locked out especially ones the devs intend to use in their unfolding timeline.

btw, Randall is creating ISN updates that, for all intents and purposes, are CANON. Hes researching and establishing hard dates on things alluded to in the books and other sources.

See: http://bg.battletech.com/?p=3659

As for player names, there will always be a percentage of immature people who will do what they can for attention and create offensive names. Those should be forced to change or locked down.

Edited by lakedaemon, 17 December 2011 - 02:18 PM.

[verybad]

What makes them "immature" Just because they use a name from someone in the game that they like doesn't make them immature. I agree that offensive names should be censored out, but if someone wants to be Kai Allard Liao, let them. It's their time, it's their fun, it doesn't make a big difference in in the way the game will be played, nor will it affect the "Canon" of the game. It's just a way for them to enjoy their fantasy a bit more, and it's hurting nobody.

As for unit names, I do like that they will allow only one of each unit name, but I'm rather certian that people will pick names from units that in the canon. Some may be blocked (I suspect the Wolf Dragoons and Kell Hounds won't be available for instance) but Wilson's Hussar or the Waco Rangers might be.

The fluff in the INN releases might be based on canon, but the operations that actually happen between players in the game obviously won't be. Different Mercs working for different factions. Different units getting destroyed or surviving when the opposite happened in canon.

Canon isn't a bible. It's what happened in the releases from the various companies that have made battletech, but it's not blasphemy to enjoy yourself by being one of the "saints" in the game.

Because it's a GAME.

Edited by verybad, 17 December 2011 - 02:51 PM.

[Joseph Mallan]

Well as I know my daughter wants to maybe play herself in the game. Since she is a named character she should have the right to do so! As for the rest, let the developers pre resister the important npc names and leave it with that!

[verybad]

Looking for a rolling eyes emoticon. ahh, there we are.

It may be the definition, but it still comes down to the fact that not everybody is so fanatical about the game. While limiting names might make some people happy, it would also make some people less happy. All in all I think it's just tsuch a minor thing for them to make any effort around.There are more important things to spend energy on then preventing someone from living out their fantasy of being Natasha Kerensky.

Edited by verybad, 17 December 2011 - 03:20 PM.