A bit ago I made my name Safety Moth, my profiles too. Discord, gaming email, everything, and played a fun character. I made Safety Moth, a past model for NT’s marketing team (whose real name is a closely guarded secret), sent to the station to improve safety and dispel this silly “Nukies” myth. I love the character, and others do too. The minor celebrity fame in RP is funny for me and a cool reference to others. It is not meta as it is fully in character, it fits realistic names, as it was not his hatch name. It does not assist me, nor make me a target. It mechanically does nothing, makes RP more fun for me and others, and with this view, breaks no rules.
I was told I had to change it, and I wished to make a case. I want to see where this char goes, and I know others like them as well. I am not hurting anyone, nor the integrity of the server or its rules. I play on Vulture, and not a HRP server. I try my best, I just ask to be allowed to keep the name.
I even plan on making Steam guides for SS14 using the name, and I have so many ideas. I may not have invented the name, but I am picking it up and running with it, and THAT is RP and improv, a building of ideas. It is what SS13 was built around, and now SS14 is built upon, and I hope you see such here in my words.
Hey, just here to inform you that you may have an easier time if you message the game admins directly as opposed to creating a forum post.
There’s no issues having posted this but things should go smoother if you use this, best of luck. https://forum.spacestation14.com/w/game-admin-message
This is fine to have posted publicly because I think it’d be a good point for the community to engage on our naming convention rules.
My personal opinion is that we probably should relax the naming rules as long as it’s not a completely obvious duplication of a real person, or some other obviously problematic name like innuendos or worse.
For the record, I’ve adminned on shifts with Safety Moth on shift, took note of it personally, and ignored it because I thought it was funny.
I agree meta names can be funny aslong as it is a reasonable name (no one is going to name their child agent, commander, operative) but I also find job names funny (Eg: Saftey Moff, Dr.X (they aren’t even a doctor))
I think if even moderators are going to be fine with certain names if they’re accepted for any reason, maybe it could be argued to relax the standard rules to prevent low-effort names but still keep the full rule and its conventions for the MRP ruleset due to the higher standards it expects.
Making someone with the name of someone famous but swapping the first letter of each of their names still wouldn’t fly with a majority of us, since we discussed it a bit internally.
My concern here would be that “safety moth” is a concept that belongs to the community (or perhaps the person(s) who first made the posters, back in spess 13), and it kinda seems unfair to allow a single player to claim/embody it. It would be one thing if you just made a character named Safety Moth, since anyone could do that, maybe a round would have multiple Safety Moths appear.
But making it your entire online presence seems exclusive
More than one person can have the same name, even in real life~
My personal thought on it are if the name doesn’t distract from the game then its proberably A-Ok everyone loves BUCK JUSTICE in MRP. as someone who has only been active in the game for 4 months safety moth meant nothing to me but another name and a safety obessed moth sounds fine roleplay.
My point was that anyone(s) could make Safety Moth character, and that seems fine. But someone taking that identity for their wider online presence seems more questionable. I was not implying there is an issue with multiple simultaneous safety moths (as unlikely as they would be), not sure where that idea came from
I mean. How many make a gag out of their online profile by naming themselves like a fictional character?
It is an insiginificant speck in the vastness of the internet. At least i have never seen anyone have any sort of issue with someone doing that.