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Valence · **11-20-2015, 03:55 PM**

Using nameplates ICly sounds silly to me, to begin with. It's a clear cut case of OOC/IC bleedover.

Nameplates are only useful as an OOC memo, and should be kept as such.

No...?

Faye · **11-20-2015, 04:57 PM**

(11-20-2015, 03:55 PM)Valence Wrote: Using nameplates ICly sounds silly to me, to begin with. It's a clear cut case of OOC/IC bleedover.

Nameplates are only useful as an OOC memo, and should be kept as such.

No...?

Usually, it's accidental. I don't think anyone otherwise actually uses them IC, but there are people who will see that the name your character gave doesn't match the nameplate and their character will immediate become suspicious where they would not have been otherwise, which is indeed a case of bleedover.

***Teadrinker*** · **11-20-2015, 05:00 PM**

(11-19-2015, 12:18 PM)Zetchryn Wrote: However, someone took offense to the fact that her display name was not her actual name, and instead felt that me doing that was taking the 'cheap and lazy' way out of things. So the question becomes... How likely would it be for characters (especially Ishgardians traveling) to use an alias, and does it make sense for the display name to be what she is commonly known as?

Ignore this person.

It's honestly not even worth dealing with.

Coatleque · **11-20-2015, 05:13 PM**

You could really mess some people up by having a display name of "Common Err". But that would force conversation, and the need for someone to RP and get to know your character.

I'm one of those players who's name does not match what is shown. In fact, Crofte has gone by 3 alias now in the line of duty - only one is her true name and all of three of four people know it.

Caspar · **11-20-2015, 05:25 PM**

That upsets people...? I thought it was petty to hold it against players for not sheling out for a name change when they go from pve to rp, but that's an entirely new level.

I should name my next chracter Rude Hero or Mysterious Stranger, something like that.

Zhavi · **11-20-2015, 09:30 PM**

I'm so confused about what she meant by 'cheap and lazy.' How...?

Zetchryn · **11-21-2015, 12:14 AM**

(I feel it should be noted that her faceplate is, in fact, her alias. It is not her real name. Her real name is only given out through RP. Thus the fact that it's her faceplate is there to remind you of the name she gives out)

Paradox · **11-21-2015, 02:44 PM**

Quote:Mysterious Stranger

My KOTOR 1 feels. All of them. I always picked that alias when I fought in the duel arenas.

On topic though, a nameplate is basically a way for people to friend you and invite you to parties. While it can be your legitimate character name, it doesn't have to be and if someone wants to bitch when it isn't, it's their right to bitch, sure, but it's not their right to metagame their reactions with OOC knowledge by acting one way then acting another or the like because your alias doesn't match your name or vice versa. My final diagnosis and remedy on the one who caused a stir over another person's alias/nameplate choice: Severe case of butthurt with a mild case of metagaming. I'm perscribing a bottle of 30 days of fuck 'em.

/illegible doctor's signature.

FallenFedora · **11-21-2015, 03:21 PM**

As someone whom RP's through use of an alias - never once in any case to date ICly using my display name (Stroud's name by birth) I can identify with cases of confusion through long term RP, wherein I have to sometimes correct people by stating that he has not given his actual name... Though I haven't run into any issues of this resulting in negative altercations, I wouldn't be surprised to see it.

I don't see an Ishgardian with an alias as being any more or less common than anyone else working with one - some mercs would prefer a 'handle' to their given name anyway, I'm sure, so maybe a little more common than less. *shrug*

Mia Moui · **11-23-2015, 02:13 PM**

I thought about having Mia Moui use an alias as before the Calamity, her family were known outlaws. Â But having a chunk of Dalamud crash onto her family's home was punishment enough, in her estimation. Â Only locals in her home village would know her anyway and she's not been back after discovering the loss of her family and their land.

I usually presume that the name floating over someone's head is either their name or a moniker of some sort. Â Momodi mentions the tendency for adventurer's to come up with crazy names when they sign for adventuring in the level 1 Close to Home MSQ. Â But I don't use any name IC until they tell me what it is.

Yesterday, while I was killing time in Gridania, someone came up to me surprised to see another Moui. Â This was all OOC but we intend to RP in the near future. Â I'll have to conspire a scene that involve her overhearing Mia's name or vise versa.

For a canon name, I've only seen one Moui besides the NPC in New Gridania.

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