We Can Create Our Own Last Names!!!!

EXACTLY! I screwed up my name ever so slightly... but it's ME now. Change it? Kill ME off?
No way!

Well, now there will be a new market.

I think a good idea would be for LL to have double names. The system would still recognize their old one, but also use it as their new one. I'm sure many bugs would become of this, but it's just an idea.

Good point! Granted, some sim "downsizing" might have to occur (plots moved/reorganized, etc) but there's no reason LL couldn't them exactly how they are should Anshe get the ax.

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Heres how i think it will be. You wont be able to change an existing account name, but you will be able to create a new account with a custom last name. It will cost a fee and may be either a one time fee or stapled to your recurring payment. If your a basic account you will still have to pay it. Im sure when something costs money its not gona stop a griefer from using it. Some of them dont even use their own credit cards anyway. But they wont just change their name at a simline and come back ban free. Im sure that the land ban list keeps a record of their UUID key anyway.

Fine, assuming it does, BUT, it's still completely useless. It simply doesn't reach high enough, most of my property and builds are above the 'ban line' max height and thus not protected by it - hence my reliance on somewhat more robust measures.

Your odds are better than with Pascal's Wager.

Complaining won't get you anywhere.

Making constructive suggestions might not get you anywhere, but they're still worth making.

In 2000 a bunch of Palm users got asked by Microsoft to come and have a look at what was going to be the Pocket PC. We made some suggestions about what needed to be fixed in the next version. And, amazingly enough, some were actually followed.

Palm responded to that by asking a bunch of us (including all the people at Microsoft's shindig) to join the "Palm Influencers" mailing list. So far as I can tell absolutely zero suggestions we made even got through to the developers.

Is Linden Labs going to be Microsoft or Palm? I don't know... but I don't think they're as bad at listening to input as Palm was, so there's still hope. I think it's worth trying, and if yuo don't... you'll have more fun just quitting the forums.

(no, seriously, that's not a dig... it's the voice of experience)

You can already do that, and you already still have to pay a fee for another Basic account. Changing the name so you can fix a mistake you made as a newbie is a different matter. There you want to keep your inventory.

Regarding another person's comment: it's not killing yourself off. Do people die when they change their name by marriage or deed-poll?

That would be a pretty obvious step for the authors of the security tools to take, though, in response to LL allowing name changes. I would be surprised if this does not happen.

LL mentioned allowing people to see a history of name changes, to prevent fraud/griefing. It seems to me that feature should also allow easy retrieval of the avatar's key, which would allow you to ban them based on that info instead of their name.


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hm the last i checked you have to pick a last name from a list. i dont see the ability for a custom name yet. unless your anshechung imployed. if indeed this is already possible i might as well pick the name i want now!

Well maybe at the start, but you know griefters they always find a way around.

No, but you can wait for a name you like to come up. What you can't do is transfer inventory to the new name.

If I change my name in RL, it's expensive and annoying, but it doesn't force me to burn my house down and rebuild it.

So anyone who's joining SL for the first time ought to wait for an unknown length of time for their ideal surname to come up, not knowing if it ever will? :?

Double-barreled names? Oh, wonderful! I bagsy getting to be a particle designer with the surname Sparkle-Widget.

Hasn't anyone realised what happened here?

It's easy to create a slew of new accounts with a new surname...

Just buy an entire block of sims at auction as part of a special LL Promotion, get 25 free accounts with the sim purchase, and LL will make a special name, just for you. Only costs you several thousand US dollars.



Seriously, didn't anyone else see this? The block of sims that Anshe purchased most lilkely came with a block of 25 'free' premium accounts. Like the batch that was being sold on eBay a while back.

Sheesh...

Haha I bit to late I'm afraid.
Least in the case of my family.

Actually I know of one example of a legitimate reason to want to change a name (IMHO).

One of our family has a name that is exactly 1 letter different from another player. About a year and half ago this other player had some difficulty with providing customer service. How do we know? Our family member was recieving hundreds of very nasty irate IMs from this other persons customers. Most of these people refused to believe she was not the person they were TOd at. As a result our family member to this day cannot sell a darn thing in SL and has virtually stopped creating anything. She still recieves horrible IMs from this other persons customers to this day.

LL refused her a name change when she asked a year and half ago. SL has been almost unbearable for her since.

Well. Cheap sex animations.

How 'bout that.

They're cheap, folks.

What does this have to do with a need for a name change? That is my business not hers. Kindly leave her out of the potshots.She built houses and made textures.

Yes I make sex animations. Yes I sell them at low cost. Your post seems to be a rather snide attack and I have no idea what I ever did to you to deserve this comment.

Hell no. They also shouldn't be expected to pick the right name right out of the starting gate, either. And they shouldn't be expected to avoid typoing their first name. And they shouldn't be expected to know that this isn't like their Yahoo Mail account and they can't just change it when hotmamma23 gets embarassing.

ALL of these are reasons why you should be able to change your name without abandoning hundreds of dollars worth of content that is no-transfer.