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No free name change?

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited March 2010 in The Academy
At the tutorial I was under the impression for your captain and BOs, you get one free costume change and one free name (not the short name, but the longer one) change. But when I went to do so, the cost for changing name is 1500 Merits.

Is this a bug or is it intentional?
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    No it cost money to change their full name.

    You do get one free costume change and a nickname change though.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    You get the one free name change as a way to change the default name to something more your liking- and as a new character has a null value as default, you burn that free change during character creation. There is no way around it as you can't create a character with a null value for a name.

    New BOs and ships have a non-null random name as default, so they can and are created with that default, with the free change stored until you decide to use it. If it was up to me, I'd have phrased it "You have one opportunity to pick a name at no cost," as that's much clearer in regards to the initial character generation, as well as pointing out on the character creation screen that your long name, if not set now, will cost 1500 merits to change later.

    Having the Bibliography changes free was the only thing that kept me from filing a bug report over it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Oh I see... guess that's true there. That kind of bites, I hadn't thought up a full name until now but 1,500 Merit is a lot... and I imagine there are much more useful things to spend it on.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2010
    Yeah I know.

    If your like me you will probably do it anyway because the name of one of my BO's was annoying me to the point where i saved from 19-1500 merits quickly.
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