Just set your favorite suit to the appropriate race you want.

Please give us an option to change our names CCP. Whether it be through something purchased with ISK or AUR, let us change our merc names if we so choose.

I say this because:

1. Some people might just not like the name they have

2. Alliance or corp members can really build a community together by having the same moniker a la DJINN or such thing.

3. Another revenue source for CCP?

Simple Solutions

1 - (already in place) - We can see the PSN name of the person no matter their DUST name so its easy enough to go by that.

2 - Show the name change in the person's history along with corps.

If you can change your name in real life, why not in New Eden? Just make sure that there is a paper trail for people to be able to follow. Every corp should be doing a background check on a new applicant anyway so having this show up in a merc's records should be fine.

I agree that $10 is a fair sum to pay for the change and would probably net CCP a good influx of money.

I agree that it shouldnt turn into witness protection but I think there should be a way to combat this.

- EVE players should be able to see PSN/Account Names of DUST players
- DUST players should be able to see histories (corp and name change) of other players

Its CCPs decision but it would be a good way for the company to make money. There are a ton of people who would pay for a change for legitimate reasons. Heck, if a corp gets fooled by a guy this way with the information available I listed above then they deserve it.

I came across this thread in CCP Frame's post in the weekly updates sticky. I can see how this could be used as a "witness protection" scheme, and I think I might have a solution. Feel free to poke holes in it (seriously, point out all flaws).

If this were to be implemented, keep track of all previous names used in a "Previous Alias" list, much like the employment history window.

Example - I rename from "TheAmazing FlyingPig" to "Sammy Whiskers" (we miss you Sammy <3). My name would be Sammy Whiskers, the name TheAmazing FlyingPig would be open for someone else to take, and TheAmazing FlyingPig is now listed as a previous alias. Only one copy of the name can be active at any given time, however it can be on anyone's alias list if at any time it was their name.

Not sure how hard this kind of system would be to implement code-wise, but there's a possible solution.

I hope you ready to accept the consequence that comes with this.

Spies.

Imagine being able to change your name at will in order to sneak into a corp and ruin everything from within, leave, and then change your name without fear of being discovered.

We can change our day in the present but not in the future? Yes it's a game but I would still like the option. We should get a name tracker so that players can not change their names to try and run away from others. A name history list of all the previous names this player took up. A 24 hour count down between each name change and a small fee.

If you add name history as part of the solution very nervous corps will auto-reject you similar to those with high employment and short duration rosters.

How about instead of a name change we could use callsigns.

We keep whatever name we started with at character creation. Thats the name that shows up
under employment history and all that but the callsign is what shows up in chat channels and
kill feeds. You could still "show info" and get the mercs real name and psn ID but what is
publicly shown is the callsign. The callsign could be changed when xxx (whatever people want).
Corps could get their monikers on old players/new hires without the need to create a new
character thereby actually getting the character they hired.

Just a thought.

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