Cressan

Few thousand? I don't even have a thousand on mine and I have been away for several months before. I mean I was glad it was still around when I came back but I'm ?find-ing people that have been off for years and their names are still around. After four or five years I'm not sure it matters how much usage they had but I could maybe understand it in some cases. People that have thousands of hours of playtime may be ingratiated enough with long term players and the established community of the game to deserve that. I don't know if I agree with it, to me it seems like if their gone for that long and it doesn't look like their coming back there's no reason to save their name unless you're sentimental, but I could see the other argument. What about the squad names though? Is it true that when squad owners names are reset the squad name just sort of becomes untouchable and unrenewable? This is just what I've been told but I've come across a lot of squads owned by *UNKNOWN* and that player doesn't exist.

Not sure if anyone has brought this up but I think some work needs to be done on name resets. Names that have, as far as I know, been inactive for several years are still unavailable to players, and when they do reset any squads the player owned sometimes still exist and are simply unable to be created again. This is at least what I understand it means when ?squadowner comes up as *UNKNOWN*. On top of this some players have started hording names, even though they only use a few, and selling them. This particularly seems harmful to the game as a whole since it encourages people to search for and horde any popular name they can think of, especially when they can sell them for $20 a piece. This doesn't seem too harmful considering a person can use any combination of letters and numbers as a name, but part of Continuums fun can be building a reputation for yourself, in which case a particular name can be very important, hence why people are willing to drop cash on a decent one. In my opinion name hording, combined with the already poor resetting of names for both squads and players, has depleted a surprising number of handles. Perhaps people don't see this as much of a problem yet but I think it will be. New players will be discouraged if they can't find a name they're fond of, or if they have to pay for one they can find, and we always need new players. Frankly, I think that the fact people have started hording and selling names is evidence itself that some need to be reset. I don't know what to do about hording and selling, though that seems more damaging than the poor frequency of name resets since even when names are reset people can then horde the newly available ones. I'd suggest limiting the number of names per e-mail account but people will simply register more that one account. At least that's better than nothing though. At the very least I think something needs to be done about the resets.