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Who was explaining the naming policy? We were talking about how just because someone desires something doesn't mean that said desire will be fulfilled.

Who said that Apple's activity should cause Orange to change his desire to make an Apple character? Orange can "desire" anything he wants. That doesn't mean he's gonna get his desire satisfied unless Apple frees up the name and it's not taken first by another player desiring the same name.

I think there's a portion of the player base that picks god awful colors on purpose because they know it aggravates people and they can grief with it.

Thank god I can grief them back by cancelling the buffs.

I'll need clarification myself but I believe leadership falls to the most recently logged in character. I inherited the Red Star a couple of times on characters that weren't the next lowest rank, but merely the most recent character to log in.

Of course it's possible that was because the next lowest ranks from the Red Star were also over the Auto Demote timer.

This has never been a "free" game. Free accounts have always had restrictions. Before we were inundated with RMT spammers Free account could only play 7-14 days.

After the RMTers started abusing the free accounts more restrictions wre added

Could not email other players
Could not level past 14
Limited to 50,000 inf
Could not join global channels
Chatting restricted to /local, /hc (the Help channel), and /team
Could not invite players to team (but could join other players' teams)
Could not join SuperGroups
Could not create Mission Architect arcs
Could not interact with Architect Entertainment Stations (but could be invited onto a team that was running MA missions)

Players have always had to pay something for unlmited access.

Take your complaint about that to the RMT sites that were using free accounts to abuse those features to the extent it became necessary to implement those restrictions.

That's the best you've got? Sorry dude, until (May 31st 2012) - 2 weeks ago, Free accounts couldn't join Super Groups so there was no reason for them to be able to access the SG registrar until they spent $5 bucks on the game.

Now that that has changed maybe the devs will reconsider lifting the restriction on the SG registrar. You could always make a suggestion in the suggestion forums to let them know your opinion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Na9-jV_OJI

Agent Smith has a pretty good reason.

To be honest I didn't follow Marvel that much as a kid. Back then my preferences were Sgt. Rock and the various war comics with Marvel being prefered over DC super hero comics if the war comics weren't available.

Actually back then I'd rather read a book over a DC comic if it wasn't Sgt Rock/War themed.

Or I pass them the Star and let them invite their friend. cuz freems can't send tells.

Sorry dude but you get what you pay for. Oh and no one buys that "crippleware" argument. If a person isn't willing to upgrade his account to premium now, he has even less motivation to spend money if he's given even more stuff for free.

Like the saying goes, why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free.

Yeah but then you have those server fanatics that believe there is only One Server and they shalt not have any characters on any other servers.

Or to put it another way

One Server to rule them all, One Server to find them,
One Server to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

How so? I just click on the name in the chat box and send him an invite. How the name is spelled isn't relevant.

Oh I agree with you, I'm just suggesting a possible explanation as to where the confusion might be stemming from.

Which is exactly happened to the EU players when the server lists got merged. Their global names were changed against their wills regardless of the fact that many of those affected had those names for 7 years.

And the ironic thing about this discussion is that both sides are arguing that they don't want to change the name they've "chosen" for their characters.

Side A wants a specific name and doesn't want to change or modify it to something else because someone got it first.

Side B already has a specific name and doesn't want to change or modify it because someone else wants to use it as well.

It's the same argument. "Don't force me to change my characters names."

As far as the game is concerned both copyright and trademarks fall under the companies copyright policy and people that aren't familiar with the intricacies of the actual laws are probably lumping both together like the company policy does.

I really don't have an objection to a name purge, but I will question what I think is a weak argument to justify it because I want them to make the best case possible to convince the devs to change their minds.

Actually Stars had to be the most creative cuz there's so many of them, and they've been around longer than rocks. But even there you have gold farming stars with names like CD-52°914, or BD38° 3238 which spam RHT (Real Hydrogen Transfers) thruout the universe with offers to sell in game currency for Hydrogen.

I get that one too. See rocks were around longer than fish, so they got the name first, and fish had to wait until they died and turned into rocks but by the time that happened they had to settle for Fossils.

Completely forgot about forum names, and I might as well check my global name too.

Forum name
Front: Rabid Gods
Back: Evil Warriors

Global Name
Front: Insane Death
Back: Satan's Fury

I get it. Apples and oranges are both examples of fruit but you can't call an orange an apple because apples got the name first.