(12-16-2016, 05:34 AM)Juan_Arquero Wrote: ... If DoctorBenDover is unacceptable, would renaming to Dr.BenjaminDover be acceptable?
Names like your beforementioned Mal Reynolds are alright when the char itself isn't copying blatantly from Firefly/Serenity. So a char named Mal Reynolds is no problem, playing -that- Mal Reynolds is a problem. Obviously there's more names out there close to following the same principles which aren't considered correct: John Cena being a prime example here.
As for the above quote... Dr. Ben Dover is definitely too obvious. Dr. Benjamin Dover might fly, but don't count on it. The meme is strong with this name.
Just so everyone is aware names like Ben Dover relate to porno stars so definitely meme names even Benjamin Dover.
(12-16-2016, 05:34 AM)Juan_Arquero Wrote: ... If DoctorBenDover is unacceptable, would renaming to Dr.BenjaminDover be acceptable?
Names like your beforementioned Mal Reynolds are alright when the char itself isn't copying blatantly from Firefly/Serenity. So a char named Mal Reynolds is no problem, playing -that- Mal Reynolds is a problem. Obviously there's more names out there close to following the same principles which aren't considered correct: John Cena being a prime example here.
As for the above quote... Dr. Ben Dover is definitely too obvious. Dr. Benjamin Dover might fly, but don't count on it. The meme is strong with this name.
Just so everyone is aware names like Ben Dover relate to porno stars so definitely meme names even Benjamin Dover.
Porn stars can be hardly put on same level like John Rambo, Bruce Willis or Chuck Norris. Anyone who thinks that should definitely consider bad influcence of movies he is watching.
I still don't get why people argue about certain borderlining names, like obvious porn actor names or names that are supposed to sound funny. Give your characters just normal names. Why even bothering with tryharding this? Could people just stop trolling?
Sombra Hookier Wrote:Could people just stop trolling?
Trolls gonna keep trolling.
Unless they are spotted and slapped hard, that is.
"It's not a compliment, it's a matter of fact. I never saw you whining about stuff when it didn't go your way, you never do ooRP-arranged stuff, you're active, you're good at playing your character ingame and you're neutral enough to not end up as a clown infront of the community."
You weren't meant with that. On the other hand, you know the rules and really should stop arguing about it and just go on with usual business, because I really doubt any argument will bring your stuff back. Especially not making 'demands' after breaking the rule. A Stork can be replaced within an hour. Could have been worse if you had lost the Night Hawk.
Don't take my sentences out of context. This was about porn names and other borderlining names. Your characters name was clearly not just borderlining.
Main concern here is this line :
"we will delete all ships that do not meet these guidelines in 7 days" ,
Better to be :
"we will delete clearly violated ships and Basille suspicious ships that do not meet these guidelines in 7 days" ,
immediate erase can be pretty harsh if administrator dont know purpose of some names since there is a lot of character that are clearly not in RP , but are meant for some purpose , like for example :
"Price catalog ship" - my ship , not in RP , but used as storage of goods and prices , always docked and i not even fly it at all ,
"storage ship" - lots of players have those to store CODENAMES or equipment ,
"test ship" - can be just restated and worthless and OK for erase , or can be named like that for specific reason and used for specific purpose ,
"BankNAME" - we all have them ,
etc .
To the Admins: Can we please have an extension on the approaching deadline? Nobody was able to log onto the server this past weekend, which was time that I could've used to rename my characters. Also, my main account (which has the money I need to rename characters on other accounts) just got auto-banned due to a glitch, so I can't rename any of my characters right now.
Also, please take into consideration that just because a character name looks like a meme doesn't mean it is. For example, one of my characters on my main account is Juan.Williams who you might logically think is named after an African-American celebrity -- that Juan Williams is a liberal political pundit whom I've seen many times on Fox News Channel and sometimes elsewhere, often MSNBC. I didn't name my character after that Juan Williams. My character is named after my great grandfather who must have been born John Williams in Liverpool, England in the early 1800s. By the 1850s, he was a high-ranking officer in the British military (not sure which branch), as he was named as the first commander of the British troops in the Falkland Islands which the British confiscated from Argentina who called them Las Islas Malvinas. Since then, every Argentine school student (including my father who grew up in Buenos Aires) had to learn the name of the last Argentine governor of Las Islas Malvinas. In 1982, the generals ruling Argentina were losing popularity due to the poor economy, so they decided to take back Las Islas Malvinas to regain their popularity. The British took back the islands with a little American help (use of one of our bases in the Atlantic Ocean and help refuelling their planes on the long flights). During the war, the Washington Post reported that there were about 11 sheep for every person in the Falkland Islands -- my great grandfather brought the ancestors of those sheep to the Falklands/Malvinas. After he retired from the British military, he became a sheep/land baron in Uruguay -- nobody could enter or leave my mother's hometown without his permission, as they had to cross his land. Juan is a common name in my mother's family because of him and that's why many of my characters are named Juan.