Originally posted by alkrmr

Originally posted by Truelevel

Originally posted by alkrmr

i think if there was progression to the naming policy for WvWvW i would never leave

Red Invader

Red Sergeant

Red Captain

Red General

and then as you progressed and became known through the community it would appear

"Player Name"

in that way those with names will be feared, and those who don't normally play would just be recruits

Taken directly from DaoC... Nice

never played DaoC, just thought it up earlier when i saw this thread it would be a cool idea

That would be cool indeed.

So far, though, you will see enemy's guild tags. So there will be some of that happening (probably a bit more than many people think). It will be tied more towards guilds, rather than individual players, but the observant player will be able to spot the same people if they look.

It would be awesome to have a system like this, though. Maybe tied to player rank? Would create additional insentives to PvP, without making you more powerful.

Well there isnt any real diffrence between "red invader" and "server name" since the servers in WvWvW are pretty much fixed like the old battlegroups from WoW, and a quick look at the score screen will tell you which servers you are figthing on.

If any thing they should change the current place holder to "char_name of server_name" so people with major ego issues could get their statifsfaction, but honestly if GW will sell any where close to what ever any AAA mmo today sells initially the chances of you meeting the same people over and over are rather slim, especially if they will shuffle people. I do feel its a bit odd that they will have cross realm rankings but wont show names in WvWvW but also it might be a performance issue, rendering text does takes its toll and if they just transform text to textures with transparency maps that can improve some performance.

BTW am i the only one that's playing MMO's with name tags off? i hate them they are annoying as frak and just mess up the screen...

Well see how easy it will be to deferntiate between a friend and a foe in WvWvW but i really hope i can turn off the name tags, in rift, WoW, and ToR thats no problem since the races and classes are sufficiently diffrent graphicaly to serve as an IFF...

I'd be fine with options on how the invaders are designated, as long as they stick with no character names or other unique identifiers for invaders.

as i recall in daoc, when you killed a player from  the other realm, while you couldnt see their names..it did make a zone wide message that "Rungard has been killed by  (insert invisible cowardly hibernian ranger scumbag name here)"

That was always enough to gain notariety...one way or the other..

its a nice touch.

maybe the progression could be measured by time spent in WvWvW, players killed, supply gathered, structures built/repaired/destroyed, etc.

If it doesn't show names, at least we won't have lots of angry /whisper messages from the other side. I played lots of random arena in GW1, lots of douches messaging kind of got annoying. On the other hand, it's nice to know you got x player back or you can tell who's the guy who was easy to kill and keep targeting him first. I'd prefer having character names.

Considering the set-up, it makes perfect sense. So I don't mind it.