Replacing Inactive Player Names (IGN)

I was just thinking, what if a player wanted a particular IGN (like "Aaon" for example), but it was already taken by someone else... who rarely plays anymore.

I'm suggesting an option where if a new player is able to replace another player's IGN if they have been inactive for more than 12 months. There could be a system as to where players could check and see how long it has been since that particular IGN has logged into the game. If the time is more than 12 months, then the new player is able to post a request to that IGN in a forum thread, or something...

I haven't thought the process all the way through, but hopefully most of you understand where I'm coming from? Feel free to place your two cents in or stop this idea altogether. Just try to convince me of this being a good or bad idea. (Despite the lack of ideas that I have for the "IGN Request" system)

 

I'd say only if the character is under lvl 30.

 

And what if the inactive person decides to come back?

 

I don't see any issues with it if the account hasn't been used is like 1 year+ and the character is under level 10. Or something like that.

 

I say let us have permanently banned players igns, i know it has been suggested before. I think that is a more reasonable way to get some new igns available.

 

I wouldn't necessarily say to wipe out all of the inactive / banned players at once. I was thinking more of a request thread where players would follow a specific requesting format:

PROS:
- The players are only able to request IGNs one at a time (have cooldowns). Instead of players gaining the knowledge of when all inactive players will wipe out, making them able to create many alternate accounts just to hog all of the IGNs to then sell for later, I would say make the players personally request for these IGNs one at a time to prevent spamming, etc.

- The staff members can personally delete an inactive character, instead of all at once. So, I'm not suggesting that ALL inactive characters will be wiped out, just only the ones that the players decide to request. And to just throw some more ideas out there, if deleting an inactive character may be an issue, maybe their name could be changed with some random numbers filling until the end ("Aaon" to "Aaon41745253") ???

CONS:
- Players are still able to race to get an IGN that they don't actually need, with only the intention of selling to others. This is just putting off the inevitable, players will still be able to try to sell IGNs to others and all, but with the cooldown in the requesting, maybe that will restrict their chances all the more. Also, it would be a waste to hog IGNs if you could only request one at a time... I would actually try to go for an IGN that I wanted.

Also, we could have requirements as to how the player could be considered "inactive" and / or able to lose their IGN from requests:

- Inactive for 12 months
- Inactive for 6 months and below Level 10
- Permanently banned

 

I think taking the IGN of someone who had used it for any of their characters is like impersonating that person.

Even if the person had quitted Royals forever, I think they'll be remembered by their IGNs, that's a part of them in the history of this server and taking it due to the inactivity
of the person will be like disrespecting them and trying to remove their past on the game.

I'm myself a person who thinks the ign is the 50% of the character, it's how people will know you during your time in the game.

It's obvious most of the 'good' igns got taken during the first days of this server, just like in any other server will be.

However I could find some 'decent' igns when I joined 8 months ago, and that wasn't an easy task due to the server being alive for 2 years and 5 months already.
Just to give you a little example, I found igns like 'Phrase, Slap and Siap, Lend, Greet, Censure, etc..'

I believe it's about to put effort in searching for igns if you really want to find decent ones. I wouldn't support removing someones ign just for being inactive or perma banned but
I'd support an idea like removing igns that had been saved in mules lvl 1 ~ 20 and haven't logged for 1 year or more.

I hope we will not end like GMS did. They basically removed the last memories of players that were 'legends' when GMS was old school and no pay2win server.
I'm sure we all remember some of them:

Spoiler

They were the last 'memories' of the good maple, now their igns are literally numbers (such as '00125597') changed by Nexon. The history of GMS died when they did that, imo.

 

^ Never thought of it that way, when you say it like that I'm against this idea completely. Now then, who the fuck took the ign Grill?

 

Wow they took names away from people who hadnt played in 2 whole years. Seems like an awfully short span of time. They could have gone with releasing all names that were banned for hacking between 2007 and 2009, and you'd have a couple million good names freed up.

 

Absolutely, good idea if the character is low level, otherwise not so much im afraid.

 

I feel like doing this would confuse a lot of the GMs (or at least myself) whenever we check our list of banned players and see some of those names from the list running around ingame without a ban applied to them.
I know it has happened before that players who were supposed to be banned somehow managed to evade said ban but were caught ingame and we rebanned them, I feel like allowing players to use the names of permanently banned players could lead to a lot of accidental rebans because of this. Another thing I can imagine is that it would require multiple criteria for the name to become available other than just having a perma ban applied to the account, else an accidental autoban for high damage could cause a player to lose his or her ign.

 

Yes of course releasing everyones ign who gets permbanned as soon as they get banned is a horrible idea, everyone should have the chance of appealing their ban and so on. Maybe we could have all the old banned peoples ign at this current moment (people who have applied and have no chance of ever getting unbanned). I didn't know about a list of banned players, but the igns that would be removed from banned accounts would have to be removed from that list as well obviously. Since every gm would be aware of the fact that banned igns would be available again they would have to be a bit extra carefull with banning people like that. Maybe it would be viable to just remove banned players character that is not on the list, assuming that the list don't consist of every banned player since post-wipe and every mule ign they had on their accounts.

I was just throwing the idea out there because I recall it being mentioned before and it seemed to me like it could work. Personally I don't really care that much about new igns because I don't plan on making more new characters. I personally care more about people who would lose their igns for being inactive for x amount of time, that doesnt sound like a good idea to me hence I tried to suggest something different.

 

do i get a split of the dough if Donger gets sold?

 

For inactive users under level 20, I think this should be done. As for the concern that people might confuse them for an old friend, if they are low level, chances are that they didn't make much of a name for themselves.

 

Just because someone is inactive and low level, replacing their IGN just isn't right. Not only because it will confuse othe players, you are taking away their rightful IGN. So what if that player isn't that good and active in the game? Why should this give you the right to take something away from someone; something that would only improve some visual appearance of your character. Also, like what was mentioned above, it would be removing and disrespecting one's past even if they are permanently banned.

Perhaps, it would be feasible to replace permanently banned players but you would still have to consider the chances of ban appeals and the different reasons mentioned as supra. Besides, if you were able to create a character and enjoy the game when you were younger, why would you make it an issue now, since we are all adults here?

 

Whoa... RIP my IGN.