Reserve Character and Outfit names

Mirror · 2012-06-08, 05:11 PM

With beta only weeks away (not my words

) I was wondering if anything has been mentioned by Higby or the team about reserving character and outfit names.

Bags · 2012-06-08, 05:13 PM

I really hope so. That's the only vet reward I want.

p0intman · 2012-06-08, 05:14 PM

we had better be able to.

**Malorn** · 2012-06-08, 05:15 PM

I hope they simply go by names and outfits associated with the PS1 account. Choose one name, and if outfit leader, outfit name also gets reserved.

JPalmer · 2012-06-08, 05:16 PM

That is if beta names will even carry over to launch. Usually it is a clean slate when launch arrives.

Mastachief · 2012-06-08, 05:17 PM

I hope so as we have websites and such like registered

Zenben · 2012-06-08, 05:20 PM

Hopefully they allow name reservations for both beta and then again for live. I know many outfits plan to form up in beta, and this would be very useful on their end for testing teamwork aspects of the game.

Mirror · 2012-06-08, 07:17 PM

Originally Posted by Zenben

Hopefully they allow name reservations for both beta and then again for live. I know many outfits plan to form up in beta, and this would be very useful on their end for testing teamwork aspects of the game.

I guess that’s another question.

Will the game simply transcend from beta to live (see Tribes) or will there be a reset at the end of beta?

PredatorFour · 2012-06-21, 09:37 AM

Since Goku closed my thread and there hasnt been any clarification on this subject i`ll echo the words written by the guys above me in saying that the only vet award i want is my name carrying over into the sequel. To me this is important and i want my outfit to have its name also.

Would be great if we could actually get some words from some higher power about this.

AzK · 2012-06-21, 09:38 AM

I hope they do something about it, and do it properly because we already had some issues with people stealing names on the official ps2 forum as soon as registration became available, my name and somebody else's were taken by some notorious trolls.

Customer service sorted it out but it's going to be annoying if it happens ingame as well.

They should make something like what bw did with the swtor's prelaunch guid thingy, so at least if your guild or character names get stolen by people trying to be annoying, the staff has a lot of time to check who the "rightful" owners of the names are.

Rexdezi · 2012-06-21, 09:55 AM

my name was stolen for signing up for the beta... thats why Im called Rexdezi... I had to think up something on the spot

Mastachief · 2012-06-21, 09:58 AM

Originally Posted by Bags

I really hope so. That's the only vet reward I want.

Indeed.

It would suck if we cant reserve outfit names as we have communities built on those names.

MacTruckuLes · 2012-06-21, 10:01 AM

seems like this is something they will do closer to the end of beta.

Mirror · 2012-06-21, 10:14 AM

Originally Posted by MacTruckuLes

seems like this is something they will do closer to the end of beta.

I think people with certain names and outfit names feel that this feature should be in from day 1 and I mean beta day 1.

I'm sure any established outfit (I won't use a player example here) will be extremely annoyed at the fact that there outfit name has been taken by another group should they not get invited to beta until later on. This other group could also potential damage the reputation of said outfit by doing immature and stupid things.

I think I speak for a lot of Outfit leaders here when I say I would very much like a facility to reserve my outfit name from the day that beta begins or be the one able to use the outfit name that was used in Planetside 1.

NewSith · 2012-06-21, 10:21 AM

I think you need not to exaggerate this problem so much. I'm not saying there's no way for nicksteal to happen, but we have PS1 and names are still there. If it wasn't me dreaming - Higby already mentioned that they are going to take care of the problem. It's right in this sub-forum, just go search for it.