Ban Single Word Names On RP Realms at Character Creation

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It’s people like you he’s complaining about. Keep up the good work. :+1:

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I like putting a training dummy next to rp players and go through my rotation.

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As a roleplayer? Stop it. This is a nonsense request. Some people name themselves their IC nickname for goodness sakes. This is getting ridiculous and the reason why roleplayers aren’t ever taken seriously.

So thanks for that./s

Stop trying to control how other people play. You elitists are annoying.

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I agree with this, I RP from time to time on my other lower level’d toons because well this character isn’t on an RP server. I agree though that a lot of the supposed RP names are probably names certain races wouldn’t use so certain names could be a violation as well RP wise for races names.

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It’s typically not an issue because the people with obvious non-RP names aren’t hanging out in RP hubs or guilds.

But every once in awhile, rarely, I’ll see one that’s just a bit -too- “2007 Xbox Gamertag” or memey in general and report it.

That, and sometimes folks use stupid names under the impression it doesn’t matter because RPers use things like MRP / TRP anyway. The floating name thing takes like 2 additional addons/extensions and is TRP-specific, and also is kinda fugly so I don’t like it much and it’s not something you can assume everyone is using. EDIT: See, people like Gro down there. The Chat Log isn’t the only thing that matters. (Not that her name is an issue)

FWIW, OP’s suggestion isn’t realistic and some people get a little too report-happy for names that could be explained away as nicknames.

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That’s ridiculous. Some fictional characters have code names which are words in a dictionary.

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For those of you who don’t play on Roleplay servers, this post is completely irrelevant. A vast majority of roleplayers all play with a mod that changes the name of your character to whatever you please. It affects chat logs as well so it looks like your character said it. I can change my character name to “Grand Space Admiral Commander Gro the Yeeter” and people would have to read it everytime I interacted with them.

I don’t know what this guy is going on about.

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You could report them but Blizzard hasn’t enforced the RP Naming Guidelines for over a decade.

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I don’t think this is a good idea – it’d catch too many legit names.

My Rogue’s name, for example, appears to be a combination of two words - Regal Lion.

But it’s Regallion. It’s pronounced ‘ruh-gal-ee-on’, not ‘ree-guhl-lie-uhn’.

I’m all for RP realms having their own naming rules, but trying to get an algorithm to filter them just doesn’t allow for enough flexibility, IMO.

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I think the OP has gone off to another alt to troll on. Personally, I agree with you.

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According to him compound words are okay - so while Stupid and Jerk would not be acceptable as names - Stupidjerk would be, according to his ‘fixed’ system.

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I believe that the word “in” is in the dictionary, therefore your name is ruining the RP community

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Yeah, and whether it is or not, even worse, so is “inn.”

If that isn’t a shot across Moonguard’s bow, I don’t know what is.

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The stereotypes and rumors are too about moonguard. I was just questing with my LF Draenei in moonguard and got offered lots of gold to dance or do other acts. Last time I ever went to goldshire I either stick to Stormwind or questing some where else lol.

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NEVER visit Goldshire on Moon Guard. NEVER. EVER.

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How did that topic become relevant?

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I never will again trust me lol. My friend got sucked into that type of work I should say to be polite lol. At first she thought it was funny but she became obsessed with doing it to the point I could open my friends list and about 97% of the time she was in goldshire dancing or doing other stuff.

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Additionally, people will just use those alternate characters to get around it and who wants to type more of those.

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Is Regallion on the Merriam Webster?

Did I ever mention combinations of words?

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So I’d be flagged then if I were on a RP realm? I’d argue my name is very RP friendly.

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