Tigertjheu
Squire
I mis only one thing in changing my name.
And pop-up that confirms the name as last control.
And pop-up that confirms the name as last control.
you put names on the listWe have an ignore feature, and we put people/players on that list for a reason, the ignore feature will be pretty worthless if players can change their names, and thats NO good.
that's got me thinking about this site http://foestats.com/ they use an ID tag as well, here's mineyou put names on the list
the game puts player IDs on it
the ID doesn't change
i will try to explain why this name change feature is that bad from my perspective. no one will care, but at least i can vent.
this game is highly dependent on the social factor. inno never got that. (that's why there are still no guild profiles in the apps. you want people to stay in the game? let them finally apply to good guilds and not just random ones. more players will keep playing, because of better communication and trading options.)
when i started out i used to chat with guild mates and globally daily. you could discuss city layouts, trade problems and tips on the game at any given time. of course you also get to know some unpleasant people, but do you instantly ignore them? no, ignoring disrupts the chat, because you can only see half of the conversation and if you ignore multiple people you have no clue who and how many of them are online and whether they are insulting you.
when playing gvg i sometimes need to contact some people i hardly ever talk to and do not have on my friend list. how can i know if i already talked to them in the past? i can't, the name might be different now. same thing goes for new members trying to apply: if we're at war with their former guild, i'd say no, but after a name change i cannot know if they are telling the truth, because i can't ask around.
another issue: players can sell their accounts even better now, because the buyer can change their name. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
many endgame players sell goods for forge points and they depend on their good name. word travels fast if you scam, but not with this new cheap feature of yours.
other things were already mentioned.
That is my main concern! In my previous guild (top on Server) we had 3 enemy guilds change Name and Flag similar to ours to cause confusion. And worst thing is that it worked - a friendly guild attacked us in GVG because they thought we were the fake one. Now imagine what would happen if an enemy guild changes name and all their members change names too! It would be almost a 1:1 copy of our guild. Very very bad idea, Inno!!!!!!Surely one name change a year is enough for anyone, allowing unrestricted changes will offer scammers and rogue traders anonymity and will allow one player to select an almost identical name to another, this will lead to confusion, whether deliberate or not. There are already guilds who deliberately change their name to appear as another, this change will just make things worse.
man, I dread having to rekick all them bad guildies when they come back under a new name, over and over and over
is there any info when will "nickname change" be activated on live servers?
I guess that's some trick I haven't learned, how do you block someone from joining/applying to a guild? And even if I could I can't retrospectively do that to them all, I mean it's the name that typically triggers the memory of what someone has done and if they change it I won't know that. But I guess it's no biggie, I mean if they want in that badly okay but we'll most likely have to kick em again for most likely whatever the reasons were we kicked em before, not the first time we've had to kick the same person more than once, just now will be more difficult and repetitive.Block them from rejoin then.
Block them from rejoin then. Changing user name will not get around that block.
Nothing confirmed yet.
about joining the guild - in my guild we do not look at the name of the player as much as his or her city and history via foestats so we are not scared of any potential threats that this feature could bring.
so when do we get a fix for the slow donations to GB? it's really terrible
OH!! PLEASE BRING THIS TO THE OTHER SERVERS!!!
one of the things i most hate is that when you create your account nothing says you "your user name will be your in-game name too!!"
when i made my account (not in this server) i used as "user name" for my account the same user name i used for my "the-west" account in 2008 but when i logged in to the game and saw my in game name was the same word i picked for my user name account i was very upset, angry, and any "FoE" support couldn't help me, now with this feature ill be able to change it! finaly!
if you want to limit the number of "changes" just let the first time for free and the second one available for 1000 diamonds or let us change the game for a 2nd time after 6 months for 500 diamonds :3
For the time being it has been disabled, as some further work is required and related issues need to be handled first. When/how it might return, is something that the CM will notify once that's to happen.
Art. 4 Name
4.1 As the User, you will chose a player name as an alias to participate in the Games ("User Name"). You are not entitled to be allocated a specific User Name.
4.2 We are entitled to change or delete the User Name not only for technical but also for ethical or legal reasons without the requiring your approval.