(09-02-2014, 10:50 AM)SayonaraRevival Wrote: thanks for the welcome guys! TWEWY is literally the best game.
(in other news, send help I just paid for the transfer to balmung last night and got in, but did not realize it wouldn't prompt me to namechange without another character of the same name somewhere, so now I'm stuck with my usual and currently lore-breaking name. I'm so mad right now omg. is there ANYTHING I can do or am I going to have to either pay way more than I have in my bank account and/or delete and re-make a character I reeeeeally didn't want to delete????)
(lol, newb concerns.)
Just introduce your character with another name for RP! Realistically, if people are judging your character by the name they see, that could be seen as metagaming, and I'd say a lot of people here would avoid that like catching on fire.
Or, as I've seen in other threads, find a way to roll with it! ...There was a small period of time I had an Elezen with a more "Miqo'te-style" name, which I attributed to him have /extremely/ eccentric parents. Official documents would get the full name, but if left to just verbally introduce himself, he'd shorten it.
Now, the character I play has a bit more of a complicated name ordeal. To start, he's Garlean. FFXIV shows what Garlean names look like, but they aren't available to players. (No good middle name/title option). Second, he really didn't have a name in the beginning. He was just the "Unnamed Mercenary". While a name had been decided on for backstory, it wouldn't have fit the character. So while the character name is useful for logs, there are different names I would use during RP.
You may have also seen quite a few Miqot'e male Seekers with Tia or Nunh in their names. But if you walked up to a random Seeker guy, would your character (or other people's characters) really ask about that particular Seeker's breeding rights within the tribe he's in? Probably not.
tldr: The character model's name shouldn't matter for RP.
side note: To answer the question, the only way you'd be able to namechange would be to transfer your character out again, make a temp character on balmung with the same name, pay more money and wait three days, and transfer back, forcing a name conflict and change on your character. It's a sloppy procedure, and annoying, but SE's stance on allowing namechanges seems to be that they're afraid if it's a marketable service, it'll be abused by trolls/griefers.
