Are symbols still being allowed for character names?

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  • ercasam
    ercasam Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2008
    I used to hate having to use alt symbols to pm and report people, you don't need them and it makes it soo much easier to communicate without them

    lol ^_^
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  • ark
    ark Posts: 1,635 Arc User
    edited July 2008
    Yeah. I'd prefer the symbols to be left for just guild names.
    As a Guild,

    Live as One, fight as One, win as One.
    Strength in Unity,
    Order through Chaos,
    Victory united.
  • orinj
    orinj Posts: 460 admin
    edited July 2008
    still deciding which way to go with this one.

    all your input is appreciated though.

    - orinj
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  • veco
    veco Posts: 29 Arc User
    edited July 2008
    personally I like all the extra symbols you can use, it can really make your character unique, unlike other games that don't allow anything outside of the regular alphabet. I already have my name picked out so hopefully they will won't take away special characters <3

    That being said, you will probably run into fifty different spellings of orinj, Orinj, oRinJ, ORinJ, orINj, oRiNj (lol this is kinda fun), oRINJ, oRINj, etc... saying stuff like, I'm a GM and need to verify your account infos (insert scam here)... >.>
  • ark
    ark Posts: 1,635 Arc User
    edited July 2008
    veco wrote: »
    personally I like all the extra symbols you can use, it can really make your character unique, unlike other games that don't allow anything outside of the regular alphabet. I already have my name picked out so hopefully they will won't take away special characters <3

    That being said, you will probably run into fifty different spellings of orinj, Orinj, oRinJ, ORinJ, orINj, oRiNj (lol this is kinda fun), oRINJ, oRINj, etc... saying stuff like, I'm a GM and need to verify your account infos (insert scam here)... >.>

    But then again, if you said that to some random newb, they'd know you were bsing them because they don't know the GMs.
    As a Guild,

    Live as One, fight as One, win as One.
    Strength in Unity,
    Order through Chaos,
    Victory united.
  • veco
    veco Posts: 29 Arc User
    edited July 2008
    ark wrote: »
    But then again, if you said that to some random newb, they'd know you were bsing them because they don't know the GMs.

    you would be surprised lol
  • ark
    ark Posts: 1,635 Arc User
    edited July 2008
    veco wrote: »
    you would be surprised lol

    O.o You mean you've tried this?

    REPORTED FOR GM IMPERSONATION :mad::eek::mad:

    j/k j/k...
    As a Guild,

    Live as One, fight as One, win as One.
    Strength in Unity,
    Order through Chaos,
    Victory united.
  • makiwoni
    makiwoni Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2008
    well I would like the symbols. Even though this is "international" and usually more for the western community, it's still "international" and originally a chinese game so I'd like to be able to type in chinese....just to **** you people off hahaah

    no seriously though, it's kinda like...anti spam if people can't type your name
  • ark
    ark Posts: 1,635 Arc User
    edited July 2008
    makiwoni wrote: »
    well I would like the symbols. Even though this is "international" and usually more for the western community, it's still "international" and originally a chinese game so I'd like to be able to type in chinese....just to **** you people off hahaah

    no seriously though, it's kinda like...anti spam if people can't type your name

    No. Typing Chinese is ignorant because this game is international. The international language is English - not Chinese. And if you don't like people PMing you, you can blacklist them. Sweet feature. :cool:
    As a Guild,

    Live as One, fight as One, win as One.
    Strength in Unity,
    Order through Chaos,
    Victory united.
  • veco
    veco Posts: 29 Arc User
    edited July 2008
    nono i havent tried, but i have been one of those noobs that have fallen for scams before. blast you hunky arab prince who sends me a check in the mail then has me send some of it back! >.< lol jkjk, but i did fall for dropping an item way back when in Diablo2. Since that day my world has changed from bright flowers and sunshine to overcast dark gray and the only way to protect myself is with constant sarcasm... please dont let this happen to all the unsuspecting newbies out there, let them keep their raindrops on roses and wiskers on kittens~
  • makiwoni
    makiwoni Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2008
    well consider me ignorant then :)

    seriously though, you gotta be more oepn minded, I wouldn't mind if people came in the game and they typed in whatever language they;re from as their name. Times are changing bud.
  • ark
    ark Posts: 1,635 Arc User
    edited July 2008
    veco wrote: »
    nono i havent tried, but i have been one of those noobs that have fallen for scams before. blast you hunky arab prince who sends me a check in the mail then has me send some of it back! >.< lol jkjk, but i did fall for dropping an item way back when in Diablo2. Since that day my world has changed from bright flowers and sunshine to overcast dark gray and the only way to protect myself is with constant sarcasm... please dont let this happen to all the unsuspecting newbies out there, let them keep their raindrops on roses and wiskers on kittens~

    I'll try my best.
    veco wrote: »
    Oh btw, i desperately want to be a watermelon...

    That's nice.
    As a Guild,

    Live as One, fight as One, win as One.
    Strength in Unity,
    Order through Chaos,
    Victory united.
  • ark
    ark Posts: 1,635 Arc User
    edited July 2008
    makiwoni wrote: »
    well consider me ignorant then :)

    seriously though, you gotta be more oepn minded, I wouldn't mind if people came in the game and they typed in whatever language they;re from as their name. Times are changing bud.

    As times change, the world becomes more English. Anyways... I'm pretty open-minded. However, for several reasons, English in this game is one of my strong opinions. Sorry bout that.
    As a Guild,

    Live as One, fight as One, win as One.
    Strength in Unity,
    Order through Chaos,
    Victory united.
  • veco
    veco Posts: 29 Arc User
    edited July 2008
    makiwoni wrote: »
    I wouldn't mind if people came in the game and they typed in whatever language they;re from as their name. Times are changing bud.

    Ooooo, can I use wingdings? cause that would be fun lol, I want my character name to be (symbol for bomb)... but then I might have a change of heart and be known as, the symbol formally known as bomb... oh dont worry, i will just end up going back to (symbol for bomb) anyway >.< lol

    I kinda took what you were saying out of context, and it was alot of fun doing it ^^
  • sphinx
    sphinx Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2008
    I dont mind the caps or the underscore at all that much because they names are still readable.

    But with symbols it takes me sometimes a good while to figure out what the name is. Oh and it can be a major pain to spell out the name if its in symbols, not to mension time consuming.
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  • seveneyes
    seveneyes Posts: 23 Arc User
    edited July 2008
    I personally would not want Chinese characters in the game. They are very specific to one language. Where as the English characters are used widely across many languages!!

    Even more so the majority of people cannot type or even view these characters properly. And even though we can't understand it, quite a few can't even distinguish between different characters (not easily memorable for people who have no understanding of the language.)

    It is known that some players in MY-EN use it their advantage!

    I also feel enabling the characters creates a big divide across the players...

    Finally this game is based in the USA, whereas there are other Perfect Worlds based in China/Malaysia etc. Meaning it is not like they cannot find another server/game that uses their language.
  • ninjer
    ninjer Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2008
    But, I wanted to be called xXxxXxۣIlilillil D:
    Not really, of course. Symbols are annoying. Plus, hackers can spam them in their name and make it near impossible to report them. Random capitals are ok though imo. :cool:
  • ark
    ark Posts: 1,635 Arc User
    edited July 2008
    ninjer wrote: »
    But, I wanted to be called xXxxXxۣIlilillil D:
    Not really, of course. Symbols are annoying. Plus, hackers can spam them in their name and make it near impossible to report them.

    Actually, you just click, right click, then report. No typing needed.
    As a Guild,

    Live as One, fight as One, win as One.
    Strength in Unity,
    Order through Chaos,
    Victory united.
  • ninjer
    ninjer Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2008
    ark wrote: »
    Actually, you just click, right click, then report. No typing needed.

    Ah, that's pretty cool. :o Thanks for the info.
    <<<Didn't get a chance to play the my-en one.
  • soukyuu
    soukyuu Posts: 809 Arc User
    edited July 2008
    ark wrote: »
    No. Typing Chinese is ignorant because this game is international. The international language is English - not Chinese.
    International = multilingual, not english. ;)

    I'd say let names have only a-z, A-Z (and maybe spaces) but allow unicode chat so everyone can speak the language s/he wants.
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  • karmelia
    karmelia Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2008
    I would like to only see latin alphabets used in names (and not even accentuated letters) The duplicate name function is too clumnpsy to be used efficiently. And you cannot use it if the name is not shown in the chat window. Capitals lettter are a must I think. I don't weant to see names all starting with small letters anyway.

    And only english should be used. Otherwise, how can you know if a name or something said in global chat is right or not?

    If I was to say something bad in swahili, would the GMs recognize it as such?

    Yes this is an international community, but as such we must all use the same language, otherwise it will become a mess.
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    (We are still waiting to see any improvements or changes beign implemented. More empty promises from PWI?)
  • soukyuu
    soukyuu Posts: 809 Arc User
    edited July 2008
    karmelia wrote: »
    I would like to only see latin alphabets used in names (and not even accentuated letters like
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  • karmelia
    karmelia Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2008
    soukyuu wrote: »
    ^ pwned by the forum software xD

    *Forum software pwned by the edit function* :cool:
    Frankieraye said : "we can promise that we will work to improve all facets of community, engineering, and customer service to ensure that something like this doesn't happen again."


    (We are still waiting to see any improvements or changes beign implemented. More empty promises from PWI?)
  • soukyuu
    soukyuu Posts: 809 Arc User
    edited July 2008
    karmelia wrote: »
    Yes this is an international community, but as such we must all use the same language, otherwise it will become a mess.
    You do realize it won't happen? no matter what you do to block them from speaking their language, they will find their way around it - similar to bypassing a chat filter.

    For example if someone wanted to speak japanese or russian on this server (i can speak both, well jp only a little, and am living in germany :P ) they could just use english letters to do this.
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  • king
    king Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2008
    soukyuu wrote: »
    You do realize it won't happen? no matter what you do to block them from speaking their language, they will find their way around it - similar to bypassing a chat filter.

    For example if someone wanted to speak japanese or russian on this server (i can speak both, well jp only a little, and am living in germany :P ) they could just use english letters to do this.

    Regardless, I think they should encourage the use of the standard a-z letters and not allow the use of the symbols. Although it looks cool to have the symbols I don't think it goes with their new design. If they have taken the time to rename the classes..why have the foreign symbols?
  • soukyuu
    soukyuu Posts: 809 Arc User
    edited July 2008
    i got a bit off-topic with my post, i was speaking about the ingame chat, not character names.
    as i said above, names should only have a-z, A-Z and maybe spaces allowed
    the chat system should stay unicode though.
    PW has been endless frustration for me #2
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  • orinj
    orinj Posts: 460 admin
    edited July 2008
    veco wrote: »
    ...That being said, you will probably run into fifty different spellings of orinj, Orinj, oRinJ, ORinJ, orINj, oRiNj (lol this is kinda fun), oRINJ, oRINj, etc... saying stuff like, I'm a GM and need to verify your account infos (insert scam here)... >.>

    actually, the scenario you describe above will no longer be possible. we're taking measures against that one.

    thx

    - big o
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  • t0yo
    t0yo Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2008
    soukyuu wrote: »
    International = multilingual, not english. ;)

    I'd say let names have only a-z, A-Z (and maybe spaces) but allow unicode chat so everyone can speak the language s/he wants.

    Since the international language IS English I disagree with you. PW-MY said that it was the malaysian english version hence why chinese characters could be used in names and guilds. Now we're in the proper international version, so English is going to be the main language.

    No one can be forced to speak english in game of course but heck I know you agree with me for the name and guild character thing because thats the part were it realllllllly gets annoying
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  • koz
    koz Posts: 465 Arc User
    edited July 2008
    I'll be happy if they just disable chinese characters and the star symbol :p
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  • mikoto
    mikoto Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2008
    koz wrote: »
    I'll be happy if they just disable chinese characters and the star symbol :p


    Agreed.

    Star symbol is way way over used.
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