Bump.

Please let us have the possiblity to put capitals where we want again, as explained above, this custom change does not solve anything, in fact only makes things worse.

Also, why the heck is 'Heal' forbidden in lastnames?

I say the whole thing should be seriously revised. Not just the capitals, but also a lot of the word filters.

Krinton3 wrote:Also, why the heck is 'Heal' forbidden in lastnames?

I say the whole thing should be seriously revised. Not just the capitals, but also a lot of the word filters.

That too.

bump again.

any staff read this yet?

Krinton3 wrote:Also, why the heck is 'Heal' forbidden in lastnames?

I say the whole thing should be seriously revised. Not just the capitals, but also a lot of the word filters.

Forbidden in firstnames also I think. Tried to create a cleric with the same name as the one I had on live and it wouldn't allow me, though that could have been from the "owner" part aswell.

/signed on the caps issue. Bad names can be always reported, as Nixian pointed out.

Excited22 wrote:bump again.

any staff read this yet?

^

Why is staff avoiding this ridiculous issue

To be honest I didn't recognize this thread until now. The limit was set to avoid players from writing sentences into their lastnames (which isn't actually a lastname), as far as I know.
The badwords are the same for names and lastnames and as well for guildnames. And those badwords are wildcards, so sometimes it is possible that specific names are not chooseable where they would be ok. That's a low cost price we pay for keeping stupid names out.

Ozerdin: Uthgard started as OOC, yes. That means we are not an enforcing roleplay server, but that does not mean we have to accept all kinds of stupid names (as can be seen in the rules).

(moved to Support (en))

Nayru wrote:To be honest I didn't recognize this thread until now.

Wewt, this really came as a surprise!

Nayru wrote:The limit was set to avoid players from writing sentences into their lastnames (which isn't actually a lastname), as far as I know.

It doesn't prevent it at all, it just makes it look more ridiculous, but it doesn't stop people from doing it. This makes it an unnecessary and VERY unwanted custom change. I hope you will take notice of this aswell.


PS: I'm not speaking only for myself when I say you are taking these things too seriously.

Things are sometimes seriously and its our decision what we want to see here and what not. We dont have to react to every player suggestion. We already decided it as we introduced the limitation when it was not in there before.

Edit: I know you might think, wth dictatorship or something. It was our decision to implement that limitation, so why should our position to this suddenly change?

Well cause it's quite useless change and more annoying than really helpful, at least for some players point of view :p
And if you look at the original topic, the main question was "why was it changed" which was never answered for 1 year, was not a suggestion.

Blue wrote:Things are sometimes seriously and its our decision what we want to see here and what not. We dont have to react to every player suggestion. We already decided it as we introduced the limitation when it was not in there before.

Edit: I know you might think, wth dictatorship or something. It was our decision to implement that limitation, so why should our position to this suddenly change?

Obviously you only want players to have fun within your own narrowmindedness.

It might need to be 'suddenly' (it's not suddenly it's ever since the stupid change got there, but you guys just didn't notice this for such an immense amount of time......) changed because your community think's it's not only bullshit, it's also completely custom and destroys the DAoC experience to some.


It's still a game, it's still about having fun. You're not helping that with this, at all. In the contrary even, people are annoyed by this. But yea, you're free to do as you like, it's YOUR server. You don't have to care about what people think is wrong with it, as long as you like it yourself.

Cant see why "Sniperspecced Wtfipwndu" is better than "Sniperspecced WtfIPwndYou" or why "Meanacidfan smackmyglitchup" is better than "MeanAcidFan SmackMyGlitchUp" or "Thefirbolgis doingstrangethings" > "TheFirbolgIs DoingStrangeThings", "Imabuffbot Anddeservetodie" > "ImABuffBot AndDeserveToDie",..............

Gemma wrote:Cant see why "Sniperspecced Wtfipwndu" is better than "Sniperspecced WtfIPwndYou" or why "Meanacidfan smackmyglitchup" is better than "MeanAcidFan SmackMyGlitchUp" or "Thefirbolgis doingstrangethings" > "TheFirbolgIs DoingStrangeThings", "Imabuffbot Anddeservetodie" > "ImABuffBot AndDeserveToDie",..............

It's better because they think/say it's better.

"Move along now..."

Gemma wrote:Cant see why "Sniperspecced Wtfipwndu" is better than "Sniperspecced WtfIPwndYou" or why "Meanacidfan smackmyglitchup" is better than "MeanAcidFan SmackMyGlitchUp" or "Thefirbolgis doingstrangethings" > "TheFirbolgIs DoingStrangeThings", "Imabuffbot Anddeservetodie" > "ImABuffBot AndDeserveToDie",..............

I agree with Gemma: Stupid names are stupid independent on how they are written. The only advantage I can see is that it is not possible to have names like "Sniperspecced WTFIPWNDU" or "MeanAcidFan SMACKMYGLITCHUP".

On the other hand if you chose your name carefully, like e.g. "Minerva McDougal" for a female Highlander Cleric it indeed takes something from its nice apperance if it can only be written like "Minvera Mcdougal".

So how about the following compromise:

1) Add a rule that lastnames containing only capital letters are strictly forbidden.

2) Allow up to three capital letters in your lastname.

This way players have the possibility to create nice looking names for their characters while capital letter spamming is both forbidden and technically constraint.


PS: One word about the "dictatorship"-stuff: In my opinion we - that is the players - do not have an rights on how this server should be run. On the other hand we all are grown-up, adult people. Therefore it should be possible to simply talk with each other in a mannered way to see if a compromise can be found. To my mind regarding the last names this should be possible, for example the one I mentioned above.