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Don't look at me this is my first time in here today....I'll try to rate ya back up on that one....You were just trying to be helpful.



And to everyone else thanks, guess the GM decided to scrap it as I've still heard nothing from him.....

Questions to ask yourself when choosing a name:

1. Does my name offend anyone (racial, sexual, vulgar, etc.)
2. Is my intended server a Role Playing server (a la DAOC's dedicated RP servers)
3. Do i give a <MOD EDIT>

I agree...snowflake is NOT a RP name, and mine is probably not either. I tried to get the names God, Allah, Yahweh and Jahovah, but it wouldn't let me have it....which is understandable.

If this person petitioned your name, Support will recieve the following message:

Snowflake reported Evilerudite as a bad name

Support will then change BOTH players names....and probably give snowflake the name Artugeleathes or some such name that is so hard to spell, she will never get invites to group...

cheers

Yaweah of the Oasis

I can't see myself reporting something as mundane as Evilerudite. Granted, it lacks creativity, but I'm sure all of us have a time when we make a character and we just cant come up with a name. Taps the bard would be mine from EQ1 heh.

That all said, my server has some serious winners. Ones that clearly break the naming policy, ones I should report but eh..i just dont report names. *CoughsHellokitty-Aznriceboycoughs* But GM's dont do anything about it..i'd have to say this is the most loosely GMed game I've ever played. Dang shame sometimes.

In EQ a character I had since day one was changed after I'd been there for oh.... 3 years WITH THAT name. I asked the GM why he changed it and he could not quote me a single rule I had broken. I left the game at that point and sent quite a few nasty emails to SOE about it. (Most of my guild quit with me as well....)

The funny thing is I was a guide on another server and they all KNEW the names of all of my characters anyway. It was just this one guy who had a hair up his wazoo for some reaon. My name? Ikeepooh - a term I use to describe yucky things my kids shouldnt touch. Is that offensive? Oh and she was a troll BTW. Bwahahaha!

Anyway, SOE did return my email and offered to change the name back because it didnt break any naming policies but I was fed up and told them unless they fired that GM I would not be returning to the game.... *shyly....* although I did come back a few months later, LOL.

Anyway I guess my rambling point is, even if your name isnt terrible (I've seen some awful ones! Rumpledforeskinz??)its just a matter of time before someone is going to get in a tizzy over it.... hopefully the GMs this time around won't be ***** and we can all just have fun. For the record, your name wasnt terrible, it wasn't too creative BUT it was NOT worthy of a report.

I have seen a lot of BAD names over the years. One that comes to mind is one that I just saw on EQLive a couple of weeks ago.

Frensh Lingerie.

It was a female wood-elf.... probably played by a guy but that is just me guessing [:grin]

Grist Gudhart
Troll Crusader (wannabe Pallie) - Oasis server

hahaha ROFL !!

You are guilty of a lack of imagination. I consider your name in bad taste, but not worthy of GM intevention (just maybe general avoidance).

Snowflake is also in violation of the naming policy. Snowflake is an NPC name from the original everquest.

Not that I condone such things, but some revenge could be had if you are so inclined to stoop that low.

who cares what people make their name honestly

now excuse me whilst I go puke and ask myself wtf I was thinking when I decided to google that to reply.....

Yea they can be quite sporatic about enforcing the name policy. I was "Fealix Theecat" in EQ1 and was hanging with my friend "Toadlicking Isunderated" in Grimling forest one day, and a GM comes in and says that his name was drug related and changed it to "Bagdreg Isunderrated". oh then he turns to me and changes my name to Fealix Kitty", saying that it was against the TOS! Well I didn't quite like that, so I got him to drop the "Kitty" part and was from then on the only 50+ toon I knew with no surname.... I was just mad they waited till we were level 52 and 52 to say anything to us.

Sadly this is not the first Fuzz member to be targeted for naming violations, our "Commanderhoek" is now "Derhoek" I am assuming for having the word Commander in it.

I think its kinda silly for a toon named "Snowflake" is throwing stones in that glass house of his though. Evil's name while not a perfect 10 on the creative scale is a variation of a name he has been known as for the last year to us in the Fuzz and even asked him if he would be "Evil" something on the boards before he even joined... Talk about petty.

/blacklist Snowflake
just for being a nitpicking *** on thanksgiving.


(oh and rate ups for all, even you Miravelle...lol)

Edited for spelling, its early

Edited, Fri Nov 26 15:56:37 2004 by FealixTheCat

evilerudite? that doesn't make since. Who would name their kid that? it's stupid. I think when peaple do stupid stuff like that they should be given a cool name. like, over your head it should say Myrsmick! thats cool. or tars. if you wanna tell peaple you are a evileurdite, thats ok.

Maybe they was drunk and stoned at the Norrath Fest.

That's not a cool name, it sucks. And what the hell is a peaple? Some cousin of pineapple?

Yea I know what you mean... I made a human monk named Handjob and they made me change it. I told the admin I was a monk and I use my hands to do jobs. That didn't fly. What a prick!