Rules For Name Changes

[Aldarine]

This is a suggestion in regards to updating/changing the way name changes work in the server. Presently, when changing your name, your record gets wiped because all of your crimes are associated with the previous name held. To me, this is an incredibly flawed system. Some issues and considerations are: 

1. As it presently stands, one can change their name by one or two letters to be basically the exact same name and have a sparkling record, free from all previous crimes. They maintain all contacts - criminals included. So in essence, a known criminal by the public can now obtain a firearms license and join a legal faction. This does not seem appropriate in any way, shape, or form.

2. To obtain a name change, the person has to present themselves at LSPD, fill out the documentation, and pay a bit of money. In the lovely real world we live in, you have to present proof of your present identity and your two names are then linked to one another. Before anybody states, "this is a game, not real life" while I do completely understand and respect that as well as everybody's desire for fun, I believe this is too simple of a process that blatantly doesn't make sense.

3. The first name change has an in game associated cost with it and then all subsequent changes cost credits. While not technically pay-to-win, this does toe the line of an having an advantage. If you consider the first point in conjunction with this, those who have the ability to spend money have a massive advantage and can continuously maintain a clean record on their favorite character as opposed to being forced to CK and start fresh or purchase another character slot which again, would force a fresh start.

Taking everything mentioned above into consideration, my suggestion is simple - name changes at LSPD should not remove your criminal record. The only way your record should be removed is following a legitimate CK and you have to start fresh. Every name change should tie back to the original name and record. The name change should be more geared towards life events that coincide with it like marriage, divorce, family disassociation, etc.

To everybody that reads this, thank you so much for your time as well as any input if given.

[iAchieve]

I 100% agree. I’m kind of tired of seeing name changes for the one and only purpose of clearing a criminal record. 

[Wizzidy]

On 7/4/2019 at 8:25 AM, Aldarine said:

This is a suggestion in regards to updating/changing the way name changes work in the server. Presently, when changing your name, your record gets wiped because all of your crimes are associated with the previous name held. To me, this is an incredibly flawed system. Some issues and considerations are: 

1. As it presently stands, one can change their name by one or two letters to be basically the exact same name and have a sparkling record, free from all previous crimes. They maintain all contacts - criminals included. So in essence, a known criminal by the public can now obtain a firearms license and join a legal faction. This does not seem appropriate in any way, shape, or form.

2. To obtain a name change, the person has to present themselves at LSPD, fill out the documentation, and pay a bit of money. In the lovely real world we live in, you have to present proof of your present identity and your two names are then linked to one another. Before anybody states, "this is a game, not real life" while I do completely understand and respect that as well as everybody's desire for fun, I believe this is too simple of a process that blatantly doesn't make sense.

 3. The first name change has an in game associated cost with it and then all subsequent changes cost credits. While not technically pay-to-win, this does toe the line of an having an advantage. If you consider the first point in conjunction with this, those who have the ability to spend money have a massive advantage and can continuously maintain a clean record on their favorite character as opposed to being forced to CK and start fresh or purchase another character slot which again, would force a fresh start.

Taking everything mentioned above into consideration, my suggestion is simple - name changes at LSPD should not remove your criminal record. The only way your record should be removed is following a legitimate CK and you have to start fresh. Every name change should tie back to the original name and record. The name change should be more geared towards life events that coincide with it like marriage, divorce, family disassociation, etc.

To everybody that reads this, thank you so much for your time as well as any input if given.

-1 I would agree with this, EXCEPT that there are no systems for government expunging of records, no ability to fake id's or hide identity's... there are lots of ways IRL to get a new ID for an amount of money, but since we don't have criminal jobs like "hacker/id forager" and the government is literally a skeleton I am going to have to -1. Maybe someday, but at current system there are just too many instances of a person getting pushed into criminal charges that ruin the entirety of a character they've built over months....  CK is not a viable solution to everything... it shouldnt be taken so lightly...

Edited July 6, 2019 by Wizzidy

[Brandon Powers]

-1 People should be able to change their names freely, I believe any objection to this is not appropriate for the server as we can link the name changes eventually in the name of the law to uphold order.

Perhaps the first time fee should be higher to deter criminals doing a quick swap.

[Aldarine]

27 minutes ago, Brandon Powers said:

-1 People should be able to change their names freely, I believe any objection to this is not appropriate for the server as we can link the name changes eventually in the name of the law to uphold order.

Perhaps the first time fee should be higher to deter criminals doing a quick swap.

People can change their name however they would like, I just don't believe it should wipe their entire criminal record and allow them to now hold a firearm license, get a job with md/pd/doc, while still maintaining all of their criminal contacts.

Edited July 6, 2019 by Aldarine

[Kris]

Implemented.

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[Criminal Records] Character criminal record is linked to the character, rather than it's name (to prevent criminal record wipe by name change).