melonburn22
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Hi All,
I am new here and have never opened my mouth before, but the following tactic did work for me, so I figured I would put it in here if you care to try it.. this is by no means some beautiful hack or strat, mostly common sense..but if it saves any of you $75 it was worth posting it;
When you want to change the name of your character, of course, the EQ people want to charge you a lot of money to do it. Unless you are fortunate enough to have a name that ends with an "x", you would normally have to pay a fee for the name change service. (Names that end with an "x" are assumed by GMs and guides to be names that were auto-changed due to duplicate name conflicts caused by transfers and server merges...they will change a name that ends with an "x" upon request, without checking anything and without charge.)
If, however, your name is something else like "Shergamwen" then try the following;
Either from another account of yours, or from a friend's account send a /petition complaining about the name of the character whose name you want changed. In your petition, say that the character's name (the one you wish changed) is copyright infringing and that the name originated from some novel or old TV show,movie, etc.. (even from Japanese anime' ) quote some obscure book or show or make one up... believe me they don't check this stuff out, as long as it sounds even half-possible, they simply find the petitioned character in game and give him two minutes to pick out a different name, then they change it on the spot.
They don't hold the petitioned character responsible for having known that his name happened to be in some book nobody ever heard of either, they just change the name to avoid any copyright issues...and they do it at no charge.
Sometimes it takes a bit for them to catch up to you and you should lay off the MQ, etc... until they do get with you and change the name. You wouldn't want them dropping by while you were /warping etc..
Side note: They don't wait forever for you to decide on a new name when they catch up with you in game... so have the name you want ready...otherwise, they'll just pick one from the generator and it may be worse than what you had.
Cheers,
Melonburn22
I am new here and have never opened my mouth before, but the following tactic did work for me, so I figured I would put it in here if you care to try it.. this is by no means some beautiful hack or strat, mostly common sense..but if it saves any of you $75 it was worth posting it;
When you want to change the name of your character, of course, the EQ people want to charge you a lot of money to do it. Unless you are fortunate enough to have a name that ends with an "x", you would normally have to pay a fee for the name change service. (Names that end with an "x" are assumed by GMs and guides to be names that were auto-changed due to duplicate name conflicts caused by transfers and server merges...they will change a name that ends with an "x" upon request, without checking anything and without charge.)
If, however, your name is something else like "Shergamwen" then try the following;
Either from another account of yours, or from a friend's account send a /petition complaining about the name of the character whose name you want changed. In your petition, say that the character's name (the one you wish changed) is copyright infringing and that the name originated from some novel or old TV show,movie, etc.. (even from Japanese anime' ) quote some obscure book or show or make one up... believe me they don't check this stuff out, as long as it sounds even half-possible, they simply find the petitioned character in game and give him two minutes to pick out a different name, then they change it on the spot.
They don't hold the petitioned character responsible for having known that his name happened to be in some book nobody ever heard of either, they just change the name to avoid any copyright issues...and they do it at no charge.
Sometimes it takes a bit for them to catch up to you and you should lay off the MQ, etc... until they do get with you and change the name. You wouldn't want them dropping by while you were /warping etc..
Side note: They don't wait forever for you to decide on a new name when they catch up with you in game... so have the name you want ready...otherwise, they'll just pick one from the generator and it may be worse than what you had.
Cheers,
Melonburn22
