Originally Posted by Fizz

what's the point

the namechange system is fine as it is

Originally Posted by SrCheetah

Put yourself in the place of a noob who just started playing yesterday, now imagine someone tells you 'Oh, you need to pay 100k to get the name you want because it's taken and inactive since 2007' I personally find it's not really fair towards them.

Originally Posted by K0HTA

Don't listen to this guy, he's an idiot. (I will krill you)


I agree with this though, take my name for example. This is the name that I was using for all the games I was playing when I signed up for toribash, but I had to replace the "o" with a zero, because someone made an account with the name Kohta and has zero Qi/post on it. So now I have to pay 100k just to get my name to how it should have been in the first place.

I support the idea of requiring email submission and confirmation to register an account. I also support the idea suggested by players stating that each IP address would only be allowed to have a certain amount of accounts created on it. The amount of alts created and just left is absolutely appalling and its even worse that there hasn't been something done about it already.

Honestly I would even go as far to say that I support a server wide deletion of all accounts under brown belt that have been inactive for one year.

Originally Posted by uhm

wouldn't all the accounts just be taken by everyone trying to make new accounts to either try to sell or to just own it
or even just make the account just to leave them alone for another 8 years

Originally Posted by cats

i'm pretty sure deleting accounts messes things up and deleting 2726648482729 accounts (or pming them) would probably be a pain in the ass

it's a nice way to sink tc, if u care about names that much

Originally Posted by uhm

You're suggesting really old accounts to be deleted after years of being inactive, but even then you'd need to change your name for 100k STILL, and you won't be able to because lots of people would take that name. You would have to take a few years and hope no one uses that account.

Originally Posted by uhm

The name change system seems fair and fine to me, if you wan't to change your name you should have to pay 100k, regardless of if the name you want is taken or not.

Originally Posted by pouffywall

So I did a bit of math. I took a (very) high estimate of about 10,000 active players, and the (as of a few minutes ago) number of currently existing accounts (4,416,719) and found that ~0.23% of the accounts registered (a proportion of 0.00226412411) are even in use.

I feel like that number should speak for itself, but that's pretty ridiculous.



Decent point, but afraid it doesn't quite hold up in reality. When BuZe was added to BoS, a great number of accounts were perma'd, which included alts of both BuZe and Hypez. 96 accounts remain perma'd.

Say every active member made 100 (despite these two shitlords only having ~96 alts between the two of them, I'll go with the high number) new accounts after all the old accounts were purged. Using both the high estimates for how many alts people will make and how many active players there are, we're left with about 1,010,000 then-registered accounts. ~23% of how many accounts there were previous. And those are the super out there way high bound estimates... sooo?



I think you're the ultimate testament to the fact that people are naturally inclined to use their old accounts for namechanges & sink TC.

As for the deleting thing, yeah I remember hearing that was the case as well. Renaming all of them to [old name]_OLD would be fine, I'm guessing.

I'm here with a bit of faith they would somehow be able to automate the process, because yeah that'd be way too much to do manually.


Astute observation. This isn't about getting free name changes, it's about freeing up account names to new players, though? People will probably still want to keep their accounts with high QI, post counts, early join date, etc. in lieu of making new alts. They're more than likely prepared to throw in 100k for a namechange.



Well shit, I can't help but agree with you here! It's just too bad that nobody is actually criticizing how name changes are done, and that what you're saying really has nothing to do with the topic of discussion. Oh well, maybe another day.

Unless you somehow missed it, we're talking about purging accounts/freeing up old names of unused accounts, so that new players don't have to choose some stupid silly name like K0HTA with the intention of getting a namechange right fresh out of the gates.



I'm a bit embarrassed and disappointed how sarcastic and condescending this turned out, soz just blowing off steam from writing papers all day