Thanks all.

Sometimes venting and being corrected is necessary to acceptance even if you fight change kicking and screaming. lol its been fun and insightful though.

Okay that is too well put for me to deny the logic in. lol Damn it Styxx you could have said that in such a way over an hour ago and saved me the time and energy. lol

See? I knew you had some great things to contribute! This is very insightful, thanks. So how do we implement such a plan?

between the two other server getting merged into the one Scarlet, Gypsy, Kate, and Serendipity. all lv 50 so I have had a chance to become accustom to them. I am, like I said, able to keep many of the good names, like Wolf, Eva, Ted, etc. though. It is more the principal of the issue than it is a personal loss. I was trying to advocate for all players not just myself. I understand that others are losing way more than I am, but their saying nothing to the developers, they're just complaining to other players, like me. So, I was hoping to help by opening this up for discussion.

I agree. That's why I am not ignoring him. The things he has pointed out have helped me see new perspectives which is in itself a contribution of sorts.

Look I will be honest, this issue probably means less to me than most. I actually have most of the same, great names on the new server that I had from the old server, so in one form or another I will get to keep my names. I am/was trying to open this discussion to be seem by developers and creative contributors to see if there are more possibilities for individual customization, like the developers say they wanted. Suggestions = change = a game suited for its players. What I am seeing is people all too ready to hate an idea like having to change their name, but still complying with it and in some cases even hating it while advocating for it. lol What I am not seeing much of is people willing to devote time to brainstorming and making suggestions. If you guys are cool with being screwed and then being told deal with it (because not enough people complained) then I will save my energy. I was only trying to help.

true but it is also possible, under the circumstances, that I am losing a name to someone who just created a character last month on a 7 day trial and they may not chose to continue to play past their trial. At which point I lose my name and BW loses myself and other players for not addressing the issue or, for that matter, thinking of this sort of thing before a major change like the server merger.

since you seem so stuck on the legacy name being the only topic of discussion I will agree that the legacy name wouldn't work for new players/characters. So unless they set the creation of the legacy name to be created when the 1st character on an account is created then it wouldn't work. Which is why I made other suggestions such as multiple words/names at creation. What if any original ideas could you provide here? You must have something good you can share.

I agree I should have been doing this sooner. lol

okay, good point, Styxx. I was thinking of that earlier which is why I also mentioned the idea of allowing more than a single word/name during the naming process at character creation.

great thoughts... this is what I was hoping to see... ideas and solutions from the players for the developers to read. Thank you for contributing.

Styxx, you clearly have nothing positive to contribute here so unless you have suggestions for improvements I am just going to chose to ignore you now. You can post if you want, but if all you can do is nit pick other's ideas and you're unable to contribute some fresh perspective to at least accompany your criticism you will be wasting you time and energy there buddy. lol

nicely put, thank you for the contribution. My hope, and the claim of the developers is that if enough players demand a change they will listen to us and make the change. So lets work together to find solutions like either more transfer options or expanded identification option, then make them make those changes.

But, WHY do you want a second way of identification? you seriously can't say you have been reading my posts if you still need to ask at this point....