its been """sorted""" on the discord, but i really want to put proper visibility on the whole debacle involving renaming indie nomads, and particularly en masse in the middle of a siege defense.
im not sure how to describe the admin response to it as other than disgraceful, but talking to one about it, it's supposedly been talked about at length in private.
bringing the hammer down on some super obscure russian word for "handle" or "grip" as a "troll name" is crazy. der'jak looks alien to me and 95% of the rest of the playerbase and its not even a nasty pun or vulgar slang, according to the source an admin provided. what sort of enforcement is this? will any sound or word that approaches some sort of obscure terminology get you beamed out of whatever interaction youre in for a rename?
i will say, in that the staff saying there is a naming theme (there isnt) among aliens that are generally nameless, and assuming vagrants/khara are the arbiters of how indies name themselves is a WILD reach. in reality, nomads are just 'unknown' or a generically callsigned ship. their methods of communication simply do not communicate with human ships. so if they have a name, a human gave it to them. or it was generically assigned (alien 1, alien 2, unknown 1, unknown 2, what have you) as whatever the IFF system in your ship wants it to be. but assuming khara are the naming theme now, do i need to rename all of my nomads that are not mesopatamian? ive got names from other mythologies. ive got super generic nomads too. some overlap with the order Egyptian naming themes. am i in danger?
where was I going with this
oh yeah
this crackdown on even the tiniest bit of whimsy or names that 'might maybe possibly have a 1% chance of being a troll' has been one of the most toxic things to happen to the community as of late. this push for a severely serious RP environment enforced by the pain of the lash of the rules will just see more people bowing out/making throwaway characters for PVP. please reconsider.
