Improve IGN system

[honest lily]

Its pretty unfair for us abc users to cope with the 12 letters limitation furthermore sometimes have to squeeze the naming in and distort the words somehow
As for Japan(kanji) x China x Taiwan x Korea servers, they all have stacking strokes languages so it's quite spacious for them to be creative and free

And also another problem is those bad words bypassing, the literal ones, you need to change the way your censoring process if that even matter at all

This is a suggestion for NA server, cuz idk about the state of INT one bit

*1st and very simple change: bring the limitation up to like 18~24, that's all

(this will also influence nickname change tick purchasing for u guys even more im pretty sure, cuz i would buy too)

Additional details and less important features those may cause certain difficulties or problems and can be ignored:
*Allow spacebar or - and _ in naming, other mmos got this, and mayb if its possible allow , . too
*Allow â á ô ơ ụ đ ễ ỉ ỳ ë æ ñ, other games have this also and might be fun for ppl who need those, but would be very very troublesome for other peeps to type those names down i guess
*Allow some more symbols, its existing but very limited right now, in some cases like the small o and small N which change the font of their names and the system messages etc, but i think its not completely legal to be able to use those for IGNs?
*Apply new changes toward naming our pets too, a small nice QoL
*Allow kanji hiragana katakana n some other alphabets etc... Very Unlikely accepted, but would be nice if at least, for one, greek alphabet be thru

Pls fill in anything i missed, thank you. And pardon me, my english isn't the best

[spark crow]

I kinda agree, but maybe 24 is too much, I wish to stay more close to 18, or the name will end up to cover half of the chat space... I'd prefer to don't add letters from other alphabet as well for the same reason mentioned by you... Imagine typing a name like âôáôô*ễỉ1ỳQë_æ@ñơ+ụ-đ after a player get disonnected during a raid... And multiply it for 5 players... It will make hard also to type the name if you need to send a ticket about a player, since you need to search these letters one by one... Unlsess you set a foreign language on your keyboard and you know well the position of these letters, or if you memorized the key combination for all of them... Adding kanji, hiragana and katakana only will make this problem worse. If KoG add a way to select these characters from the chat, instead serching for them, it will be less problematic. A part of the problem is also the fact that a lot of names are owned by unactive/banned players and some people sell names as well (some of them do it even for real money and not just for ED).

[honest lily]

Ooh thank you so much, i totally forgot the problems about those unusable nicknames of quitted and banned ppl. That would be a huge pain to solve indeed, even with the data in the system KOG has on ppl who dont log in the accounts for 3 months plus with auto password changing reminder...
And well originally i was about to put the limit as 15~20 for ign but add some more oops. About preserved ones, i would also apologize for keeping some for my own usages haha 💦 xD like ex. GunpIa for chung on alt account and just let it rot there for a while...
Also for countermeasure of the crashing issue at the present, most ppl screenshot the pt b4 hitting GoD buff n paste it on paint, which is a nice habit to have i think owo

[candid salmon]

I want a crew name (account name) too. It is more easy to know who is who when ppl has so much characters

[honest lily]

That's good too, hope they could make some space to fill that account name in, like a line between nickname and guild name. Mayb the alternative option is to pick a name (ur main as ex) to show in a <here> next to ur ign or same as above, mid of ign n G name. Also that brings out a problem we need to be solved - friendlist rework, to also show ur acc name + which ign u r online with, no need to add up like all those frequently used chars of a person

[spark crow]

I don't really like the idea of an account name because of stalkers.

[mossy raven]

yeah Closers did a thing last year where any accounts that weren’t logged for a long time got deleted, and it opened up so many IGNs

[vagrant tapir]

i have the same reservations about an account name like this too. i don't want my name specifically attached to all of my alts

not sure if other games have this and how they handle it tho

[mossy raven]

pretty sure they gave out a free name change ticket too

[spark crow]

Most of games don't allow this... And a lot of them have easier ways to change names for free... But different games handle the problem about stalkers in different ways. When you block someone the block should be applied to the whole account, not to just a character... And other players shouldn't be able to know all your characters because if they apply something like this, you will never be able to escape from stalkers even if you change your main.

[stark spire]

most games DO allow that tho

its kinda common

having the account name tied to the char name (but like as a background thing)

it lets players have the same name

since the account name will seperate them

[honest lily]

Well since you'r afraid of stalkers which is a very legit reason for ur own peace of mind, i guess if its possible, to serve both sides, for ppl with different issues and necessities then the system should have one enable\disable option for all peeps. Or mayb a semi censor like: fully enable <Aetherynox> vs hidden for ur sakes <A***>, this is how cens fon numbers work right :"D

Also ye if they ever plan to do this, give away at least one free nick change tick per account would be very kind of them

[spark crow]

That's not going to work with stalkers.

Right now you eventually are forced to quit a character because changing name doesn't "hide" you.

If the other players got messages from you or blocked you, he can keep track of your names.

If you add one name per account, he will be able to identify all your characters forever, even if you change the account name infinite times.

You can try it in game if you want.

Send a message to yourself or block a character, then change the name of that character and the name on the message/block list will change too.

[honest lily]

Ye that's how the system work rn. This acc name add up would worsen the case you mentioned. But im pretty concerned about how much you against this, like that is from your own experience or someone you're closed to , what the "cyber bullies" did, and even if the support tickets r sent wat KOG's action toward that situation etc... Forced to quit a main sound 💀

Guess some ppl would have to avoid certain games with account wise brand system alrdy implemented for specific reasons, that's just sad

[stark spire]

just have an incognito mode like ms1 .... and if you feel bullied just report the account

or block them and it blocks their entire account instead of just the one profile they are bullying you on

it works both ways if they can see your entire acc (not really but meh) then you can see and interact with all of theirs (aka full on blocking)

it makes the hypothetical stalker have more accountability for their actions

but honestly ngl id just be down for them increasing the letter limit lel

doesnt matter much about account wide stuff

it just feels like that problem sort of solves itself tho by existing

[honest lily]

I think those rockheads would also make tons of alt accounts just to mess with the victims and cause harm in every way possible, especially plus plus some other ultimate moves if they have good IT knowledges n tricks, its pretty depressed n scary 🫠But yeah that's kinda out of normal ppl prowess to deal with, and if users support team dont or cant protecc us from that type, with the proves to IP ban etc, and they possibly still insist with it via changing location\other wifi spots\net cafe n more... all the efforts just to ruin someone mental health then... 💀 But in other way, add up the acc name or not the problems like that still stand and happen eventually

[stark spire]

lol

think 16 letters would probably be a good start (from 12) ... altho thats still a bit low for 2023 standards

dont need that much more than 12 at least personally ... altho spaces in names would be something

[honest lily]

Yes i originally typed down 15-20 but considering spacebar and - _ so i added up more, i luv the way we can use spaces for naming in Blade n Soul server of my region would be nais, able to name "Revive My Brother" \ "Code Elegancia" \ "Where Is My Mother" for MPx < aka the WhereIsMyMom, i like this person ign haha, etc

[stark spire]

xD

yus

[candid salmon]

but we have a case of bad players hide yourselfs in other characters/other nick names...

Like ppl who kill everyone in Berthe just for fun...

[rocky rapids]

Im sure everyobe would like too know about im theguylivinginrenashouseasaplant

[quaint apex]

INT can't search players with thai ign or having font error to some thai's alphabet

[weary zephyr]

I think the best line of action would be increase letter limit for nicknames
15 characters would be a nice start
And that would be enough
No resetting old ones, because that will make players that even considered coming back someday to quit for real (having my nicknames reset in closers is what really made me really quit the game to never come back)
Now, about something extra... I wish we could use "accent markers" in the PT client. Makes no sense for us to be unable to use stuff that actually exists in the language (like ç ~ ^ ´ `)
I would actually go back to the PT client if it was allowed e.e

[vocal frigate]

I would rather the limitations on game names to be as follows:

• no !<>?/\\[]:tm:#@$%^&*()_-=+|{}. (yes also the backtick character `).
• change limit from 12 characters to 32 characters.
• Allow even in english client the following special characters in names:
  • chinese, japanese, korean characters (because some people wanna be cool on NA/INT and have chinese, japanese and korean names in game)

[rocky rapids]

There can only be one (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

[honest lily]

Another small thing, ppl alrdy recommended about artifact outlooks, just wanna add that if u can name ur artifacts that would be very cute too owo (i know lots of u guys use hidden toggle but i have my pokémon artifact pets on and follow around 24\7 ufuu)

[stark spire]

owo yus

[rocky rapids]

Hey should go with the custom damage numbers again

[steady pendant]

We need more space... But I'm not sure about special characters/letters and the other solutions suggested by other players.

[rocky rapids]

problem with speeol characters you can easyly make really offence signs n things.. so dont expect it anytime soon

[honest lily]

Yep, there are those 20+ years old mmo beat dance games allow special symbols for ign with really spacious nickname cap, ppl went real wild and i was one of them, rascally