TOPIC ONE: Player account identity
Recently, Patrick Willis, brought up a topic of debate in the editor's forum of Mecha Galaxy Everyone Is Welcome that initiated a very intense, very informative, and, from an intellectual level, very profitable debate. The topic of conversation was the morality and from a game rules and site principles stand point, the legality, of someone taking over another person's account and continuing play as that person. Now, I want to tell you that the results of this conversation were intensely interesting, and I personally feel that we have barely even scratched the surface of it, so I would like to continue that thread; however, I would like to invite the entire game community to participate as well. That being said, I now open this topic here.
With all of that being said, I will begin the conversation with a simple, yet direct question.
QUESTION: If a player is given another player's account to use when they quit the game, should that account continue to be considered the original character, or should there be a mechanic available in game to rename that character? If so, should the player change the character's name -aka- personality and identity, to reflect the change, and should this change be voluntary or mandatory?
Submitted by Sgt Ron Frye # 879655, Junior Editor, GGEW