(11-19-2015, 12:50 PM)Swashbuckler Wrote: Aye. Echo'ing the others in here, it's silly for people to get angry over names. I RP a character whose display name is not a name that they go by. It's their real birth name IC, though. Their preferred name is in their search info.
To add on to people getting angry over your alias not being what's on your nameplate, I've had people call said character by what's on their nameplate, completely ignoring the alias my character introduced themselves as.
So that irks me just a little bit.
I've had stuff like that happen. It's turned into a horrible habit of having to explicitly state that when Franz introduces himself, he does not provide a surname.
Ther'es also situations where someone makes a character with whatever name they feel like before they decide that character is ever going to be used for RP. For a small history, I started 2.0 as a Miqo'te. PVE-only. Then I wanted to get into RP, but I wanted to RP as an Elezen. So I used a fantasia. Namechanges weren't available, so I had a Keeper of the Moon-sounding name on an Elezen. Then I made a character who explicitly had no name. (Unnamed Mercenary). ...but then I wanted that character to be my main so I used another fantasia (1.0 players got a couple). ...but a Miqo'te name really would not fit a character using a Highlander model. So I did that annoying double server transfer thing and forced a namechange to Franz Renatus, which is a name based on an ongoing personal plot. It's still not the character's real name by any means, but he only ever introduces himself as Franz. But a surname was still needed, so I put something there as an OOC hint, but it's never really be a "name" for a person.
Honestly, if I didn't use the nameplates as something to target and track text, I'd probably disable them in the game when RPing. If Franz doesn't know someone's name, it usually means I don't either.
