I searched and didn't see the question asked. In the lore there are a lot of hyphenated names. Will we be allowed hyphens and apostrophes As characters in names? I know I hope so, as names are very important to me In regards to the creation process. I have remade a character halfway through the game because I thought of a better name.
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I can't say for sure Rubezahl but I would probably lean more towards not being able to use special characters in our names. Personally, I think hyphens and apostrophes would be okay if used in moderation, but wouldn't care to see any special characters beyond those two. Good question!
Yeah, I asked for a couple reasons.
1. There are significant usage of them in lore, which would make it fundamentally work.
2. A hyphen or apostrophe would broaden the ability to create names while still keeping them unique.
I do agree with your opinion that it should not be open to all special characters... Having crazy names usually just means people aren't going to bother typing it to invite you to group if there are other options. (imo)
Rubezahl said:... Having crazy names usually just means people aren't going to bother typing it to invite you to group if there are other options. (imo)
I know a few EverQuest monks that tried this to avoid getting consented to pull corpses all the time. Names like kiiiiliilliinth or jijijijijijoe so if you didn't know the sequence you couldnt easily consent them...They figured it'd make raiding easier on themselves. They got left behind pretty quickly (even after /consent raid was added...If you want to play the class then accept all the rolls if the class....)
Because of this I'd like to see no sequencing like that being allowed by the filters.
I agree with certain characters being allowed to be used in names, such as a hyphen, apostrophy or a period.
My family name has a period in it, I've always been annoyed when filling out any online forms only to have it tell me I used characters that aren't allowed :S Most official/government documents either replace the period with a hyphen, a space or just drop it all together because their computer systems can't seem to handle a "." in a name.
Trouble is ..it might cause problems (special characters) unless you can just right click the person's name to send them a tell or invite to group, raid..etc. Anyways I haven't seen this discussed or mentioned by the Devs yet. Guess we'll have to wait and see. Remembering that in certain languages and keyboards there are accented letters that don't appear on the English language keyboards. French for example
I kind of suspect the game's parsing routines will ultimately determine what can or cannot be used as viable name characters! Short of all typed commands using quotation marks to encluse all character names (a bit like windows did for extended file names under the old 8.3 system) I can see many potential parsing issues if names can have non-alpha (or even simple spaces) characters!
As Kilsin says, testing will tell!
Evoras, is looking forwards to the testing session where we have to create funny names!
