Premonitions

I said that the ability to use callsigns or similar things hinges upon how important the name is to you, and depending on the degree of signifigance, it can be more or less to even impossible to do.
The annoying bit here is that one group is saying that there's a problem, and the opposing side is saying that there is no problem, just the people discussing it.
See, the thing there, is taken by themselves, "Superman" And "Man of Steel" are two very different names. One can conjure up images of Captain America, while the other brings up Colossus. The only reason those are considered alternate names for Superman is because people in the comic decided to call him that. Only the first one has the full connotations, while Man of Steel only describes one of his powers. and that's just his abilities, not his personality in any way )

This is, once again, a result of how important you consider the name floating above your head. If the fact that it's floating above your head means your character's name is well known, and thus the name floating above your head is funtionally important, then you want the name seen by others to be the name you go by, not one of your many other names.

If, like me, it varies for each character, putting punctuation in or some such can be a proper solution for the proper character.

If you consider it a part of your character's aesthetic, then you want the name to be constructed a certain way. If it's just a game mechanic forced on you, then you can go with whatever works.

Furthermore, if the name is "Baked in" making any changes to it might recquire you to change your character around, if that's the case, this MIGHT lead to some good results, but it could also be completely horrible.

One of the problems here is that the character creator enforces a certain creative process. :

Basic Concept>Powers>Look>Name>Backstory.

The changes made to the creator have fixed this a bit, but it's still there, and that does'nt exactly mesh with how many, or even most people create characters.

To continue the baking metaphor:
For people who make characters the way the game does, names are the "Icing" on the cake, the last thing you do to it.

For others, names are the eggs, powers are the flour (cause it rhymes ) Origin is the milk, Archetype is the sugar, and backstories are the other seasonings and spices. Changing any one of those leads to changing the entire cake, for better or worse.

Functionally, in this case, you ARE saying change the name because in this case the name is just as integral to the character as every other aspect, and changing anything would recquire either changing the character to fit it, or having the name clash with the character, like having salt in your chocolate cake instead of sugar.

[quote]And, of course, there is the off chance that yours doesn't, but it goes back to the original point - if you absolutely positively must use one specific name and no variants can EVAR suffice not one iota... Then check it, find it's taken and throw your hands up, because you can't make that character.

Yeah, no, That's exactly what I'm talking about, I don't want the "Global+Character Name" thing either, it's annoying, but I want there to be SOMETHING, and was making the argument against people who don't want it at ALL and make all kinds of accusations about the people that do.

If this was a reference to yourself, there's hope for you yet, if not... Did you spontaneously conmbust upon typing that?

Care to explain why, or do you just not like it?
Edit;
Tornadoes don't suck! they blow! did I just miss the joke?

So I should just give up because someone else got the name first? Screw that, I'll just throw some X's around it. It's the best option to gettnig the same name floating over my head, and I can just ignore the dashes as they're less signifigant than a wording change. More on this after the jump.

This is why a system that allows two people to have the same name works.

Your right to pick a name currently hinders mine because if you get it first, I can't have it. Whereas if we both have the same right, noone is disadvantaged. Excluding of course the people who want to be special snowflakes, and be the only one who has SUPERAWESOMENAME.They don't realize that's like forcing everyone in town to cut their hair short because you're the ONLY one who can have it long.

This once again ties into the whole "How important is the name floating above your character's head to you" thing. If it does'nt matter at all, then sure, you might as well just throw up any old thing, you're not gonna actually use it in conversation, and don't acknowledge it's existence anyway. If it does, Like, say, it's a well known title you hold, that's a part of the jargon of the group you belong to, and the sub-group of that group you identify with, and that you(your character) picked for yourself, based upon your own personal likes and dislikes, that people are gonna call out to you, you're gonna want the one you picked and that is essential to the core of your character. If it's less important you can change it.

Anyone who says that extra punctuation in the names and pertinent personal information floating above people's heads that they should not be seeing because that's not how the world works,"ruins their immersion" Has a whole 'nother problem they should be worrrying about.

I was always under the impressio that the Science in Science origin is more about Scientific Processes(as opposed to Magic Processes) occuring post birth as opposed to pre-birth, which would be Mutation.
So, regardless of intent or not, Something sciency happened to you, instead of something magical.

Oh Yeah? Well ya don't see any "Earth for Humans AND Mutants" Signs do ya? do ya? DO YA?

Did'nt think so.
Hmph

Or, you know, we could just chain you to a desk and make you churn out videos like a marketing slave.

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What?

Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and I used to do that to people.

"TOnight....... I'm comin for that booty"

I can't even feed the troll Doom on toast? cause he looks so cute (not mondo, of course, but I do, what with me being sexy and all)
Trolls need to eat too you know, all that Super Dyne can make a man hungry!