Why are the devs allowing players to copy other players names. Please implement a feature to stop this. There should not be 2 or 3 players with the same name. If a player has a problem with abc12345 then changes name to abc12345 and goes to global and starts crap and screenshots the messge then changes name back and files complaint for whatever reason then you will be banning a innocent person. Please get with the program thxs.
This does seem like the kind of thing that should be prevented by name-change code.
And it sounds like you are in possession of more information than you put in this post. Send a PM to @Kafka, @Cyrup, or @Saltypatra with screenshots (if you have them) and a longer explanation. Theyāll be able to tell you more (more than I can, for sure).
Is there no way to add the invite code on peopleās profiles?
Name change is so easy nowadays and trouble makers (guild hoppers, trolls etc) constantly change their names to avoid detection it would be a convenient way to figure them out.
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I requested this before the option to change names became available. I never got an official response as to why they wonāt do it.
It sounds like 4.3 will allow people to receive bad player scoresā¦ almost like a dishonor. So essentially that wil be more important to me than a name in regards to potential new members. I just hope it shows how many individual people voted on that player. If itās just one person trolling hard on a player and down voting them. Iād like to be able to tell the difference between that and a known troll.
In other wordsā¦ Thereās a big difference between someone with 1 ex who hates them, compared to 50 exās who hate them.
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4.3 will fix this slightly, but not completely.
I believe they donāt do the unique name thing due to eventual cross platform. Even if they implemented the unique name thing, pretty sure there is a profile called something like āNickā on every single unique platform, which would cause problems if they did the unique name thing then tried expanding cross platform.
Not sure if invite codes are unique across platforms, but displaying that easily and visibly would fix some of the issue.
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If any scumbag actually did this the falsely accused would claim innocence and the devs would hopefully (one would think) be able to see what actually happened and ban for life the false accuser.
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I especially love how at least one player tries to get into our (and other) guilds every Monday, each time under a different name, just to grab the Monday loot and disappear again. There should be a way to know ahead you are just about to waste yet another half an hour on recruiting and guild introduction, seeing a familiar invite code within the profile would help a lot.
Shhh. This is how I hide my alt where I know a 10x PvP points exploit and make the PvP leaderboard every week. You only think itās a different player each time.
All Im saying is technically every gem player can have the same name. Im seeing it more and more. What if players changed their name to a devs name ? Then what ? Is that OK?.
Hereās my speculation:
GoW doesnāt write it, but a big chunk of the rules and punishments follow the only two rules any community needs:
Donāt be a jerk. Donāt make me define ājerkā.
Iād be willing to guarantee if you try to change your name to āKafkaā, then be rude to people, youāre going to get a really hard ban. Impersonating devs is no joke, and even if doing it āfor funā youāre just letting dumber people know it can be used to ill effect.
Iād be willing to be doing something like impersonating a well-respected community member and attempting to use that to make them look bad would also be met with a pretty hard ban, though itād take a lot more time to unravel.
Itās not OK. But itās not happening at a scale that gives us examples of how itās handled. Thatās probably because not a lot of people have figured out you can name yourself whatever you want, or in some cases nothing at all.
Thereās actually a rule against impersonating a dev. 
I remember the āNot Sirrianā fiasco (on pc / mobile) 
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So they ban if a player would change to devs name but dont give a shā¦ 2 cents if you become me. Lol. I dont wanna be copied. My name is mine .Find your own
Guild managers can refuse to invite without player invite codes. (I do most of the time)
They donāt ban. They just change their name for them.
Hey,
I understand your concern but bans arenāt given based on the display name. Devs can read the chat logs and see your invite code (invite codes are unique).
For you as players and GMs, 4.3 will make it harder to impersonate someone because we have more customisations in chat (portraits, portrait borders, titles) which need to be unlocked through game play, also each account will have an honor rank - you canāt fake your honor rank, and lastly there is a report player button which flags the account for the devs (ie. the invite code, not the display name).
Hopefully these improvements will help.
Iāll also pass your feedback on about wanting display names to be unique as well.
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I hope the game wonāt become āChatsOfWarā.
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Most higher level guilds do. In some cases it still wastes a lot of time, especially if the player wanting to get invited knows that the invitation wouldnāt be coming if that players identity were known.