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Imaginos · May 05, 2006, 03:14 PM // 15:14

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Originally Posted by EndoftheSyringe

You are whining about a NAME rule! Christ.

The point is to make your character feel like a person that has become a great hero. Instead of "lollerboy1202", the naming rule encouraged people to give their characters first and last names, making it a bit more "epic", if you will. It worked, too. I don't think I've seen even one name with a string of numbers or something like "XxemogirlxX".

You need to be more creative. I can come up with DOZENS of two-word names that I am quite fond of.

Yeah "Poop In My Mouth" is one of the BESTEST rpg names i've ever seen. Yessir the naming policy sure makes people think of epic names....if you were a commode /sarcasm.

I'm sorry but your argument holds no water as myself and others have seen plenty of XxemogirlxX style names they just have a space between the X's.

The OP is also a die hard rpg fan and isn't about to have some lame ass name like lollerboy1020 or whatever.

Survey Says: OP is correct.

trickygv · May 05, 2006, 03:14 PM // 15:14

i name my characters by browins the religion sections of wikipedia untill i find a badass sounding demon or angel or something.
examples:
samael
abbadon
asmodiai
lilith

KvanCetre · May 05, 2006, 03:23 PM // 15:23

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Originally Posted by Sidrakket

You are a bunch of newbies who have no buisness playing an online rpg, and are probably the same people who call people by their real names if they know them=p

That's right guys - unless you're the biggest ultra-nerd in the world, how DARE you play an online RPG! If you can't realize, from the pits of your parents basements, why we should call everyone by their characters name(because we all know that the only people worth talking to are our also-single friends we role play with), then you should just stop logging into Guild Wars, which is by far the best game for anyone who loves to Role Play.

Loviatar · May 05, 2006, 03:27 PM // 15:27

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Originally Posted by Sidrakket

I am fully aware that there are persons out there who are my better, however i am secure in my knowledge that i am quite supirior to at least 99 out of every 100 persons i see. This is not basless pride or arrogance mind you. But simply my well earned right. P

i started with those funny dice and a group of friends with a very good gamemaster.

with an elitest mindset like yours you would have been booted the first session as an insufferable jerk.

this game will see you out very fast as it has nothing a hardcore roleplayer likes.

go to it then just go

Cyan The Archer · May 05, 2006, 03:32 PM // 15:32

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Originally Posted by Sidrakket

There was a graph that i saw. It had the number of people playing mmos from like, the early 90s (muds included) to 2005. The number has jumped by about 100 times since i started playing. I am fully aware that there are persons out there who are my better, however i am secure in my knowledge that i am quite supirior to at least 99 out of every 100 persons i see. This is not basless pride or arrogance mind you. But simply my well earned right. You also have claim. Basicaly, in the grand scope of things. THere is pre EQ and post EQ.

crpg, online crpg is also different, as a persistant world is much departed from pen and paper and such. So i can not, for example, be trumped by someone who played d&d back in the day=p

I'm not going to sound too elite, but i, and alot on this forum, is the 1 out 100... Sorry to say, but we are better than you here

Mordakai · May 05, 2006, 03:36 PM // 15:36

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Originally Posted by Imaginos

Yeah "Poop In My Mouth" is one of the BESTEST rpg names i've ever seen. Yessir the naming policy sure makes people think of epic names....if you were a commode /sarcasm.

I'm sorry but your argument holds no water as myself and others have seen plenty of XxemogirlxX style names they just have a space between the X's.

The OP is also a die hard rpg fan and isn't about to have some lame ass name like lollerboy1020 or whatever.

Survey Says: OP is correct.

Huh? How would a one-word name allowance actually encourage good names? It wouldn't.

It has nothing to do with creativity, it has everything to do with allowing you to make a name and having less chance it's already taken.

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Originally Posted by trickygv

i name my characters by browins the religion sections of wikipedia untill i find a badass sounding demon or angel or something.
examples:
samael
abbadon
asmodiai
lilith

Those are all one word names!

(and not very original either. They've been used in countless RPGs, wargames, card games, even board games!)

EDIT: Cirian, there could always be Slarti Bartfast.

Cirian · May 05, 2006, 03:42 PM // 15:42

I'm just gutted that there will never be a Slartibartfast.

Olfin Bedwere · May 05, 2006, 03:46 PM // 15:46

No matter how many times you flog this dead horse, it ain`t gonna move.

Teklord · May 05, 2006, 03:51 PM // 15:51

I agree with the point above about it having much to do with the chances of a name not being taken already. With the number of people playing in a game like this a one word name simply isn't unique enough. You could sit for hours trying to come up with a one word name you want, only to find out in seconds it has already been taken. Then you sit for many more hours trying to come up with a variation that also hasn't been taken already. I know I used to have that problem in Diablo II.

I'm a bit picky with my name selections too and take my time in coming up with a name. However, it really isn't all that hard to come up with a First and Last name combo. Sure one may be used to single word names, but as many have done with their characters in Guild Wars you can come up with one last name and use it for all your favorite first name characters. That even adds the depth of them being all related to each other should you choose to do that.

Personally I'm quite fond of my latest creation: Aranel Aini. I actually wanted to use Serra Angel for my Assassin, but I wasn't all that suprised when I found it was taken. Didn't take me long to decide what to do. I took each name and found the literal meaning behind it or the definition. I then searched for words in another language that closely resembled or match those meanings. So Aranel Aini is Serra Angel, but in Elvish.

Lack of creativity makes the world a very dull place to live.

HawkofStorms · May 05, 2006, 04:24 PM // 16:24

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Originally Posted by Kakumei

Haha what

HAHAHAHAHA WHAT

Okay let's combine every HORRIBLE ROLEPLAYING CLICHE into ONE CHARACTER.

Okay, I take it back. This guy's an aweful role-player. First rule is to always limit your character. He has to have weaknesses and can't be like 20 different things at once. My main RPG character, TK-7764, has a bit of a blending of several classes, but at least mine is more original and has weaknesses.

Arduin · May 05, 2006, 04:28 PM // 16:28

Of all the complaints I've read from us GW-players, I've never seen such a pitiful topic like this tread. Dude, I know it sucks you need to make a two-word-name for your character, but could you just drop all the elitism and the 'me-number-one, you-all-inferior' attitude? I honestly don't think you will get any support from the community in this way, making your complaint nothing more than the wining of a 10-year old.

By the way, you realised Sidraket, when pronounced in Dutch means the same as a rocket to sit on. (a zit-raket, a sit-on rocket) Sure, quite the name I would be comfortable with.

KvanCetre · May 05, 2006, 04:33 PM // 16:33

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Originally Posted by Sidrakket

Sidraket (i dropped the extra k to try and get people to pronounce it right.. it didint work >< the name has two sylables. THe first is sid, like cid, the second is raket, like what you hit a tennis ball with. Sid-rakket)

I just wanted to point out that Sid-rakket is three syllables... Sid-rak-ket.

Really just because everyone else has pointed out everything funny

Imaginos · May 05, 2006, 04:46 PM // 16:46

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Originally Posted by Mordakai

Huh? How would a one-word name allowance actually encourage good names? It wouldn't.

It has nothing to do with creativity, it has everything to do with allowing you to make a name and having less chance it's already taken.

It would neither encourage or discourage good names. It would allow the option of someone having a single word good name which it doesn't do right now.

More options for players not less

Kattox1 · May 05, 2006, 04:46 PM // 16:46

It took me half a day to come up with my cool tag in games: Kattox and I just use that combined with some other last name based upon my proffesions like Kattox Nightblade for a W/N or Kattox Windblade for my A/E... They aren't the greatest names in the world but sure aren't the worst and I'm dam sure I'm not gonna change them.

Theres nothing wrong with 2 word names. It makes your character seem like a real person instead of a tag.

Draygo Korvan · May 05, 2006, 04:47 PM // 16:47

Character name generation takes time for me, I dont use any automated programs or anything. I come up with a unique name, very rarely are my names ever taken. The only time I deviate from this is when makeing a PvP character to which I do not have any attachment with.

Mordakai · May 05, 2006, 04:59 PM // 16:59

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Originally Posted by Imaginos

It would neither encourage or discourage good names. It would allow the option of someone having a single word good name which it doesn't do right now.

More options for players not less

A name you would probably never get to use, unless it was Aeipfjfj.

Seriously, how many millions of people are playing this game? How many would use Imaginos as a character name (just as a example, not saying that would be your name). Quite a few. Do you want to spend all your time entering names just to find one no one has used, or do you want to play the game?

That's why the two word minimum.

beanerman_99 · May 05, 2006, 05:03 PM // 17:03

wow. This has got to be the weirdest thread going, and its borderline pointless IMHO. You want a one word name? Go play Diablo or Diablo 2. Yeah....real original names going over there. No spaces allowed in a name is just plain retarded. But hey, if the OP wants to use 1 word to name this "epic" character let him. I think a longer name, oh...say one thats TWO words has a more "epic" feel.

floppinghog · May 05, 2006, 05:07 PM // 17:07

your all so freaking retarded lol

using the term lightly. dont even bother replying

Sidrakket · May 05, 2006, 10:41 PM // 22:41

Hmm, reading through these replies i can conclude that;

1. Half of you dont read a thread before you reply to it.
2. About 80% of you have no sense of humor. (for god's sake the space vampire pirate wizard is SUPOSED TO BE A JOKE! You dont go around being all serious on a character like that, let me tell you=P Why are people even comenting on that? I dont get it=p Besides its perfectly viable in eve anyway, i kill people to take their stuff in low security space.. pirate, i use a primarily energy draining drone ship.. vampire.. im in space! ANd to top it all of, im also a wizard because the phraze "and also a wizard" tagged to the end of ANY SENTANCE is mindblowingly funny.)

I was going to write a long reply, but ovserve instead that i am directing everyone back to my previous posts to avoid redundancy.

I will say that i do not understand why people are assuming that 'no two word minimum' means a 'one word max'... and also a wizard.

If anyone else, anyone at all realy, who has posted in this thread since my last post, has not found a part of this message specificly directed to them, then just read back from the start and you will see my reply already before you even spoke~ (because im a wizard and can bend time with my mental forces)

Also you guys seem to like to argue here=p Lol internet. Its okay though ^-^ years of internet has made me impossible to offend or upset =)

Teklord · May 05, 2006, 10:48 PM // 22:48

You do have quite the imagination. Since imagination is spawned from creativity then this is definitely a good thing.

I'm merely going to state that the game is designed where you need to use two words to create a character name. Perhaps they could have made one the minimum, but they didn't. I will also state that the game designers and developers have far more important concerns to well... concern themselves with than the minimum number of words used to create a character.