[suggestion] Names policy

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tangar
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[suggestion] Names policy

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Tip for a new players: If you can't figure out name for your character, you could always use name gerenator (press "Esc" when giving you new character a name).
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TomeNET is roleplaying game and its very important to preserve there atmosphere of fantazy world. When I see people with names like CoolHaxxor - it makes me sick and magic atmosphere of the game become shattered.

I suggest to make rules for character names:

Forbidden:
1) To use names that don't fit in fantasy world (for example, Robot, Electrotech, Hacker)
2) General nouns, which isn't really names (ex: Knight, Istar, Hobbit)
3) Names of important Tolkien characters (ex: Morgoth, Gandalf, Sauron)
4) Real-world referencing names (ex: Obama, Putin, Mcdonalds)
5) Partial or complete sentence names (ex: Iloveyou, Dontkillme, Iddchar)
6) Pretending to be another well-known in-game character isn't allowed (ex: BlueC, Mikaelx)

This includes both clear and masked names (ex: Pendalf, Knightobama)

Don't add any of these to your name:
1) Special ascii-symbols, unusual capitalization, repeating characters
2) Numbers // a lot of TomeNet players using numbers. It doesn't looks good in fantazy world..
3) Characters from multiple languages
4) Titles of any kind (ex: DrHobbit, LordDark, MrKrood)
5) Offensive or suggestive words of any kind

Players could report to admins any name you find innapropriate/offensive. If a player is found to have such a name, he could be assigned a randomly generated name. Also its good idea to give old players a possibility to change their names (as they created characters before this policy).

p.s
I myself got two character with bad names - Bat and Yeek. Second one was deleted, first one is lvl 25 and I'll be glad to rename it.
Tangar's tileset, addon, guides & maps: English TomeNET page ||||||| Russian TomeNet page
http://youtube.com/GameGlaz — streams in English // http://youtube.com/StreamGuild — streams in Russian
My chars @ angband.oook.cz
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Re: [suggestion] Names policy

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Currently, I think the code that checks names is broken. I started a character named April's Fool one year ago... and that name has probably not been used since. When I wanted to reuse the name yesterday, I was told I couldn't because it's too close to a name that already exists. I bet it's checking the old character name... making it impossible to reuse it. Can't be a problem with "close" name... since I renamed that character as "April Fool" without the 's and there was no problem with that...
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Re: [suggestion] Names policy

Post by tangar »

Yep, naming has to be a bit enhanced. Recently I had char who had name Nimly; but after I died I wasn't be able to recreate it (cause another player's account had ~close name).

And the most important - it's possible to create really ridiculous names like 'Morgoth' or 'Sauron'... All names of unique monsters certanly should be not allowed!
Tangar's tileset, addon, guides & maps: English TomeNET page ||||||| Russian TomeNet page
http://youtube.com/GameGlaz — streams in English // http://youtube.com/StreamGuild — streams in Russian
My chars @ angband.oook.cz
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