Creating Second Life Last Names

I call Dibs On Drizzt Du Furdon!

One time setup fee sounds fine to me. =^.^=

I want to have a unique last name and own the rights to it...and am willing to pay for that, as well.

Oh I'd like them both! It gives us non-westerns a chance to get ourselves appropriate asian styled lastnames that is not limited to really bad joke chinese or japanese names (Dimsum? are you guys trying to be funny or insulting?) Honestly, not everyone here in second life enjoys the choices of last names. Right now the past choices for asian lastnames since December have been really bad.

At least if LL can't provide better last names, at least give us an option to make our own. Just make sure you guys have your profanity filter on and none of those weird ascii characters appearing on the surnames and it should be fine.

people in RL (real life) have the same first and last names as other people, its a certainty that someone, somewhere has the same name as you. so why not in second life? I would definitely shell out a couple thou to create a unique name.

Hi guys!

It took some time until I managed to do it but I always wanted sort of sum up the name change meeting from last week. I did so now in my Blog. I hope I covered all the stuff which was being said.

I can also post it here again, if people want!

Hello, I may missed the whole thing about last name. If so, please forgive me.

And also forgive me for my horrible bad broken english.

imho, it's kinda bad idea because...

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I often wonder about this...

What if George who wants to change his last name to say.. "Michael" and other guy name is Michael, bought his last name "George"

Now you see two people who have same twisted names.

You say: "Hello Michael George, Oh! *waves* hiya George Michael. Which one did I talk to you about shoes last week? You or him?" Maybe one is black sheep that you want to avoid and other one sweet person you like to be friend with.

Or maybe a person may be greedy who wants to change last name and be a stranger for bad business ideas, like shop owner, too tired of being good girl, change last name and be a stranger then move their shop to a different place... etc... etc...

How do you keep in track if a person who used to created trouble and changed last name to be different, pretend it's not her/him.. to avoid. Like "I heard (lied, used to be Sarah Black change to say Sarah Moonlight) that my friend "Sarah" said you are too mean to her? like more troublemaker or something.

There are many ways to change last name... seem like not safe, imho. You can correct me if I'm wrong. And it's okay to tell me that there are already in between of forum pages.

Take care,
Xia

OK cal me blondie if you like.......But can you now change or create your own last name? without buying bulk?!

What is scary now is people knowing "FOUL" words in other languges and using them as names........Well this break TOS WITH LLABS?!

Personally, I don't see why users weren't allowed to make their own first and last names for free from the beginning... unless it was because the Linden Gang had this little "names for sale" scheme planned from the beginning.

I've only been in SL for a month and I've already dropped about $50 on it. I guess I was just lucky that there was a decent last name in the freebie list. Some of my friends don't seem to have been as lucky.

Quit passing the collection plate, Linden!! We're already shelling it out hand over fist!!

I agree with the most recent posters, we should have and should be given the ability to create first and last names at character generation like other MMORPG games out there. And, if you meet others and wish to create a familial last name (either by marrage or by two or more people wishing to form familial bonds through a shared surname ) then they should be allowed to share the same last name. This maybe a small small fee, though I dont feel that this should be so. I could accept a fee for those wishing to change last names once the character has been created and they wish to "marry" or adopt family members into one last name.

Secondly, there are a vast population that had inadvertanly chosen bad names at their intital character creation because of the bad selection of last names to choose from. They should be given the option for a name change without cost. Additionally, they might have use a lower case letter in their first name, like tim instead of Tim. They should be allowed to change their names for no cost as well.

Lastly, veterans (3 months or more members) should be given the option to change their names with no cost, once the new naming policy is in force.


edit: And another thing: There are various ways to spell the same last name: Llywellyn for instance, a Welsh name. It could be spelled Llywellyn, Llewellyn, Llywelyn, Llewelyn, Flewellyn, Clewellyn, ect. So limiting the name selection and not allowing expansion is not the answer. Rather, to increase name diversity, people should have the ability to create theor own last names from the get go!

Someone has already bought a last name. A group in SL is running around with "PMS" as an actual character last name, and they have control over who gets to use it. I found this out from "Devo PMS" recently.

My username is based on a long time fictional / muck character whos last name is NOT "einarmige" and I want to correct that. I don't care who else has the same last name, I have no control over what anyone elses name is in real life, why should I have it here?

"Devo PMS" "Furry Fluffy" and "Bouncy Squeegee" are not names of anyone I would find outside of a strip club. Yet they exist.

And if I want to put my actual real name on my avatar in Sl, why not? What am I supposed to be afraid of?

Clowns.

Personaly i would like also to have a unique last name , HOWEVER after thinking about it i bilieve that making a feature like that whould ruin the name policy ruined . A lot of people will abuse the system by making spoof / elite last names .

I also disagree with the ability of people to be able to Change there last names , it will cause confusion and people will be able to abuse the system to be totaly anonymized ....

I'm strongly opposed to both of these. Part of the charm in SL is in the last names we've ended up using, or that's my point of view. It's part of what makes SL unique.

With respect, there is not charm with the current batch of last names. With all the names in the world and all the cultures to draw from, coupled with an individual's imagination, I feel not allowing greater diversity by opening up player generated last and first names is rather short sighted to say the least.

I mean, really. I have studied names and can place a bunch here from various cultures that would supply Second Life for years. Mayhap I should?

Specifically, I have studied Welsh, Breton, Gaelic, Swahili last names. There are endless varity and varients.

So, I like the idea of allowing a last name I choose to be available to the general public, then maybe have it cut off once 50 are reached.

Then, if I meet someone whom I wish to form a "familial bond" (wedded or role play relitives) the a reasonable fee for the name change.

And if the policy is enacted, then I belive vets should be offered a once-time last name change free, otherwise they have to get married for that last name.

Honestly, in the medium we communicate in, text based, the choice of names is often the keystone to ones identy!

Lets be democratic about this please!

In Second Life, I'd always try to recreate my character from an old veteran simulated online game, as we all know as TSO. However, the only issue I have with it is my name; I've always wanted to change that. The name originated from an old comic I used to draw based in the future – a long story made short, I wished to basically become his behavior. However, I am stuck sort of as the departed and outcast of my online name, Denatsu. (Since Voltage was taken for stuff, "Denatsu" means Voltage in Japanese) and so I can't be called something I wanted to follow. I sort of wish there was still some way to change your name, just because I really wanted to be called something along those lines. I'm sure others do as well, and others don't really mind. Though, after awhile, last names and first names sometimes begin to sound cliché and a bit boring.

I know someone who might join SL but one condition is that they would have to be able to use their real first and last name. Their last name is highly improbable to ever be selected as a last name by the Linden staff.

Could the naming policy currently accomodate this person's name preference?

Truthfully,

There should be a wide varity of names in a data base for selection. We could cross reference the last names into cultural databases, then mayhap fantastical databases that are furry friendly and the like.

The cultural data-bases could be Welsh, Gaelic, English, French, Japanease, ect. It could go on and on and on, each list with maybe 50 last names to choose from. THIS would offer more varity, think on all the last name selections! And then their varients!

The new residents could choose any first name they wish, then any on these databases. If the name is not on the database, they could add it, and others would be able to choose it themselves. If maybe 50 people choose it it could be retired for a year or so, but with all the varients out there for last names I think it would be exhaustive. I dont think this should be a charge for generating a name and offering it for others to choose from.

Then, once the character is created and in game, if you meet others and wish to share a familial bond such as siblings or marrage, you chould choose to adobt one or the others last name, this mayhap with a modest charge (for all those who insist on charging for such things).

I hope these ideas are reasonably considered, as I myself and many other role players find it hard to invest in something when we can not have even the modest ability to craft our own last names.

I guess my thing is, the cost would have to be resonable and would i have to notify everyone I know about the change so they can contact me? It is a loverly thought though! It might even eliminate the need for an alt.

I am rather amused that a lot of the last names are food names: Tirasmisu, Sachertorte, Tempura, etc.

I'd very much like to be able to create my own SL last name, so I'd go with the second option mentioned by Mr. Linden.

Also, I have a character name I use in Online RPG's, which I mashed together to make my SL first name, so if I had the chance to change things, I'd want to change my first name as well. It'd be nice if I could do this without having to start an entirely new profile and thus lose everything I've built up upto this point; landmarks, inventory, friends list, groups, etc.

I think for a modest fee, we should be able to change our names in SL, since these spendy skins and hair dont transfer, if youd want to start out fresh without creating an alt, would be so nice just to be able to change your name, to whatever you want, perhaps with a review to be sure that the names not obscene, and or already in use.

hmm just think, married ppls could chose the same last name, perhaps you just want to change the spelling or the way its cased, or chose a new first name, cause the one you picked when you were a noob sucked...theres all kinds of reasons...

Just a thought to make it a better place

This idea has obviously been kicked around for a while now, and it's also obvious that people want to be able to change their names AND to be able to select arbitrary names.

So why hasn't it been done?

It seems like SL is supposed to be the "3D Internet", so why are we stuck with this stupid system of having to choose our names from a LIST?

Ok how long have we been talking about this. and nothing has been done? Did they forget about this topic? Or is everyone fixed on the new Flexy Prims? (which are really cool btw lol).. Dayum, was expecting to see this new NAME CHANGING Feature in 1.10... guess that woulda been too good to be true huh?

Some of this has already been said, but here's my vote.

First, I can understand charging a fee for a name change to reduce the frequency of it and abate confusion. But don't go so far as to allow ownership of names. It might be nice for a few people who own them, but it would detract from the experience of everyone else in the game. We should keep a common list of free last names to choose from because it's good for community spirit, but someone could pay to get a custom last name.

Frequent name changes can be averted by allowing only two per year. For an example, a week after I start trying out the game I realize I actually like it and want to change my name to something I've been considering. I change it to Elwod Blues. Five minutes later I can change it again to Elwood Blues, but past that I'm stuck as a blues brother for the next 51 weeks.

I like rotating names because it leaves some people marked as members of that timeslice. I'm not sure how it works right now, but maybe when a name fills up to a quota it gets retired and a new last name replaces it on the list of available names. The only way that a person could obtain the old name is if they married someone who had it.