A View From the Road: What to Avoid Naming Your Aion Character
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I used to catch flak for my character's name in WoW, and new guildies still often stumble over it. But Tzivya is a perfectly nice Hebrew name in the tradition of Tziporah and such, and I have a Jewish girlfriend. And people adjusted eventually, though it's always great to have the nickname 'Tizzy', as I'm one of the less likely people to throw one.
I wouldn't give up my name for anything, it's relatively unique without being made-up and stupid.
I wouldn't give up my name for anything, it's relatively unique without being made-up and stupid.
I usually go for stuff like "PlaceHolder", or "HexValue4E616D65".
It's original enough, and it usually means the name's free.
It's original enough, and it usually means the name's free.
As a related side story to this, back in day one of World of Warcraft release I was trying to come up with a unique character name for my rogue. I took the base word of Sly and started tacking on letters until I found something I liked. I never bothered to sound it out phonetically though. Fast forward a few months to when I started using Ventrillo, which has a feature that attempts to sound out user names when they enter the channel. Now most people would look at that name and come up with either 'slice-in' or 'sly-sin' as a pronunciation and would say it that way, however phonetically Ventrillo broke it down as 'slick-knee'(slyc ne). I've stuck with the name since then and don't mind either way it's said, but it's something else to keep in mind while making a name.
If the database wasn't designed for it from ground up... there's not just a single problem, there's a veritable flood of them.domicius said:
If the system was designed for it - no problem. Adding it later on is a recipe for trouble.
A dancing lemming is inviting you to join her fellowship.
You have joined the Bits Of Bugs fellowship, an open fellowship let by a dancing lemming.
A dancing lemming says: "Welcome to the gang. Ready to rock?"
Corpse of {very tall creature}, killed by Limited Headroom.
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Al-A-Ka-Poo made another character called A-Wa-Na-Ke-Bab.
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Then there was the chap called Immort al-Soul. It looks alright if you only speak Aluvian, but that's a Gharu'ndim name and in Gharu'ndim "al" isn't always pronounced "al":
al-baeb is pronounced "al-baeb";
al-jinniy is pronounced "al-genie";
al-mufattish is pronounced "Alma Fetish";
al-nuur is pronounced "an-noor";
al-sunduuq is pronounced "as-sundooq"
..... and therein lies the problem. He'd called himself "immort asshole" by mistake.
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One more rule, which may not apply to all games: make it something people can type. It's bad enough getting killed in a really awkward place and having to get rebuffed and get enough xp to get functional again and restart the quest without having to type out /permit add ash-shoqiyqatal-jamiyla bis-seyfil-kabiyratil-os'har to get your stuff back.
You have joined the Bits Of Bugs fellowship, an open fellowship let by a dancing lemming.
A dancing lemming says: "Welcome to the gang. Ready to rock?"
Corpse of {very tall creature}, killed by Limited Headroom.
...
Al-A-Ka-Poo made another character called A-Wa-Na-Ke-Bab.
...
Then there was the chap called Immort al-Soul. It looks alright if you only speak Aluvian, but that's a Gharu'ndim name and in Gharu'ndim "al" isn't always pronounced "al":
al-baeb is pronounced "al-baeb";
al-jinniy is pronounced "al-genie";
al-mufattish is pronounced "Alma Fetish";
al-nuur is pronounced "an-noor";
al-sunduuq is pronounced "as-sundooq"
..... and therein lies the problem. He'd called himself "immort asshole" by mistake.
...
One more rule, which may not apply to all games: make it something people can type. It's bad enough getting killed in a really awkward place and having to get rebuffed and get enough xp to get functional again and restart the quest without having to type out /permit add ash-shoqiyqatal-jamiyla bis-seyfil-kabiyratil-os'har to get your stuff back.
I just did my own first name...yeah...very unoriginal but, then again, there were like dozens of "Cpt. Winters" and "Shifty" running around on CoD...
I never got flak for my lack of creativity though...maybe it was just the people I gamed with.
Then there is the fact that the skill you will bring into a clan/guild is considered much more heavily then your name.
(It was always kinda funny...to see my plain real world name ranked higher at the end of the match then "Godsmack" or whatever badass identity people wanted to choose...)
I never got flak for my lack of creativity though...maybe it was just the people I gamed with.
Then there is the fact that the skill you will bring into a clan/guild is considered much more heavily then your name.
(It was always kinda funny...to see my plain real world name ranked higher at the end of the match then "Godsmack" or whatever badass identity people wanted to choose...)
I have been guilty of breaking these Commandments.
p.s. I name my characters off lesser known series too
p.s. I name my characters off lesser known series too