Name change: But not as you know it.

Ruled out. I know. But please, read on.

My suggestion is probably going to make me get slammed from people saying stop requesting this, fair enough. I wanted to put a twist on the already popular idea.

Now personally, I am happy with my IGN. But I do grow sick of these threads, so the hope of this is to highly minimise the amount of the threads created. How could this be done?

A special event.

My proposal is that SuperCell advertise a special event name change, a one time deal. The weeks leading up there will be a banner on the news section of the game, a sticky on the forum and any other advertising SuperCell may feel as though is worth while.
The basic advertisement would be saying on such and such weekend 3 weeks from now, there will be the name change event. A brief maintenance break will take place, and when you log in, -go to settings - name change. This allows the option to change your name at the cost of 500 gems.

I reckon pretty much anyone who wants a name change would be happy to drop $5 to have the username of their choice. And I think it would heavily reduce the amount of these annoying threads.

That's all, please give me all the hate you feel obliged to. I'm expecting it anyway.

I have people i know from old clans and of we both changed our name we would never know who we are! It's a good idea but it would cause so much confusion it's not worth it!

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Originally Posted by KingofClash9923

I have people i know from old clans and of we both changed our name we would never know who we are! It's a good idea but it would cause so much confusion it's not worth it!

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Imagine this real quick. You have two elders or cos that dislike each other. One stays up late, changes his name to the other co's, kicks a bunch of people, then changes back. This is hypothetical; the chance of this happening in a good clan is ridiculously low but there'll be clans where things like this happen and that'd suck.

But just in general, changing names will bring about a lot of issues, so it wouldn't make sense to allow it. And if they do it once, new players will expect it to happen again, and players who couldn't play during the event would also ask for it again leaving us with the same issues we had in the beginning.

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Originally Posted by tomatosarenice

Imagine this real quick. You have two elders or cos that dislike each other. One stays up late, changes his name to the other co's, kicks a bunch of people, then changes back. This is hypothetical; the chance of this happening in a good clan is ridiculously low but there'll be clans where things like this happen and that'd suck.

But just in general, changing names will bring about a lot of issues, so it wouldn't make sense to allow it. And if they do it once, new players will expect it to happen again, and players who couldn't play during the event would also ask for it again leaving us with the same issues we had in the beginning.

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I agree, the confusion would be crazy. I'm not suggesting someone could change to someone's name and change back, it's a pure one time change. Not to mention, 500 gems is a lot to just troll a clan.
But like you both said, the confusion would cause issues.

I believe that this could work with some tweaks and with what Lach said.

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Originally Posted by OfficerBarbary

So you say you read the stick and we should still read only to write a stupid, ♥♥♥♥♥♥ed ruled out idea....Hmmmm. Smart...

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Yes. The Great and Wise Lach must never be questioned. Never.

Same idea put in different words, i owuld lime to change my name too. But it is wat it is 😊

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Originally Posted by OfficerBarbary

So you say you read the stick and we should still read only to write a stupid, ♥♥♥♥♥♥ed ruled out idea....Hmmmm. Smart...

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Yes, Essentially. lol.
I know its never going to happen, but it made me feel better writing something that could actually work.
The usual name change thread is just,
"i dont like my name, supercel plzzzzz change it."

I would rather people gave honest feedback on the idea, but I wrote that because i know what people are like. Any chance to quote the sticky, and they take it.

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Originally Posted by Mann23

Same idea put in different words, i owuld lime to change my name too. But it is wat it is 😊

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The same basis of an idea, yes. But to be introduced like this, I have never stumbled upon.

And like I said, im quite happy with my name, I wouldnt change it..

Hi,

I think the big defect in this game is a Market to transact gold, elixir, and dark.

And I'd like to change my name from araz to ARAZ..[/QUOTE]

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Originally Posted by OfficerBarbary

So you say you read the stick and we should still read only to write a stupid, ♥♥♥♥♥♥ed ruled out idea....Hmmmm. Smart...

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I believe the sticky also speaks against trolling and asks that we be respectful of other peoples idea's. So maybe a little less name calling and a little more on the constructive input would be a good thing for you to practice?

Constructive input....
I can see where this is desirable when some kid in a bad moment named himself something like buttlikker21 (I see stuff like that out there) and then finds he is into the game but doesn't want his coc life going forward under a name like that. Makes sense.

But if they allowed name changes guys could abuse by messing up in a clan, then changing their name to come back and do it again. Their are many destructive personalities out there that will make it a career doing this getting their jollies messing things up for others.

A one time would curtail that, but really it cant be one time. The call for another chance would start coming right away and always be there. So then they would have to have them at regular intervals which opens the door for the bad guys I spoke of.

If you read the stickies then you would realize that this is already ruled out. The fact that you acknowledged it was ruled out is weirder. If you want satisfaction from posting a ruled out idea at least dont bump better ideas to the second page. Do this somewhere not here please.

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Originally Posted by Cooper123

If you read the stickies then you would realize that this is already ruled out. The fact that you acknowledged it was ruled out is weirder. If you want satisfaction from posting a ruled out idea at least dont bump better ideas to the second page. Do this somewhere not here please.

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He felt his was slightly different from what is described in the sticky and there is some validity to that argument. That's why instead just of writing him a rant I explained why it was still not a good idea for how it would be exploited and the can of worms that it would open.

From what I am reading in the forums, it looks like a version of Lach's idea is coming to the game (though not likely to be time limited)

Nice one Lach.

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Originally Posted by Cooper123

If you read the stickies then you would realize that this is already ruled out. The fact that you acknowledged it was ruled out is weirder. If you want satisfaction from posting a ruled out idea at least dont bump better ideas to the second page. Do this somewhere not here please.

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As this idea 'name change' is now being implemented it can hardly be said to be a ruled out item - but that is a mute point now.

The more pressing point is that there is nowhere 'safe' to consider or work on ruled out ideas, as this thread touches upon:

http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...=ruled+reforms

Some of the ruled out ideas may still have worth in the game with the right idea of how it can better work should have an area for discussion - after all we are supposed to be promoting ideas on better features.

And as proved by supercell introducing adding features which have previously been ruled out is possible and feasible in their eyes, not all the time but sometimes.

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Originally Posted by aavp

From what I am reading in the forums, it looks like a version of Lach's idea is coming to the game (though not likely to be time limited)

Nice one Lach.

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Was it really necessary to revive this thread, which never really gained traction?

And his "version" isn't being implemented, we don't really know how the name change is going to work and he's not the first nor the last person to recommend a version of name changing abilities....

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Originally Posted by ironagedave

As this idea 'name change' is now being implemented it can hardly be said to be a ruled out item - but that is a mute point now.

The more pressing point is that there is nowhere 'safe' to consider or work on ruled out ideas, as this thread touches upon:

http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...=ruled+reforms

Some of the ruled out ideas may still have worth in the game with the right idea of how it can better work should have an area for discussion - after all we are supposed to be promoting ideas on better features.

And as proved by supercell introducing adding features which have previously been ruled out is possible and feasible in their eyes, not all the time but sometimes.

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You are arguing the merit of a ruled out idea with someone from December 2014, long before Supercell updated their help page to indicate that Name Changes were coming....

This isn't the first ruled out idea to make it into Clash. One I recall particularly is Spell Completion Notification. They never even announced that it was updated, one day, you just started receiving spell completion notifications people were like "huh? Sweet!"

So yes, Ruled out doesn't mean ruled out forever, but most ruled out ideas are there for a reason. Personally, I think it's a terrible idea to allow name changing, but we'll see how much liberties they give people in that regard when the update comes.

I have a feeling there's going to be more reports for inappropriate names and more players with the name "Clasher" permanently affixed with name changing option removed. Or 1000 different Daddys and Chief Pats

and about 100,000 "You" usernames....

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Originally Posted by AxionXD

Was it really necessary to revive this thread, which never really gained traction?

And his "version" isn't being implemented, we don't really know how the name change is going to work and he's not the first nor the last person to recommend a version of name changing abilities....



You are arguing the merit of a ruled out idea with someone from December 2014, long before Supercell updated their help page to indicate that Name Changes were coming....

This isn't the first ruled out idea to make it into Clash. One I recall particularly is Spell Completion Notification. They never even announced that it was updated, one day, you just started receiving spell completion notifications people were like "huh? Sweet!"

So yes, Ruled out doesn't mean ruled out forever, but most ruled out ideas are there for a reason. Personally, I think it's a terrible idea to allow name changing, but we'll see how much liberties they give people in that regard when the update comes.

I have a feeling there's going to be more reports for inappropriate names and more players with the name "Clasher" permanently affixed with name changing option removed. Or 1000 different Daddys and Chief Pats

and about 100,000 "You" usernames....

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Yes that's my point sometimes ruled out items get changed so there is on occaision some worth in debating them. I only saw the post till now, I feel it is topical because it is currently in the process of being introduced therefore my responses are those because i think it is valid to enforce/support people for contributing new ideas in new ways.

FWIW this idea is perhaps better than the name change feature being introduced, because it is a limited one off feature - i think if you have to commit a significant ammount of gems also to changing your name I think it will reduce the number of non-serious name changes.