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Thread: Droid Naming

Dewbacca_BHG_
Sat May 01, 2004 9:37 pm
#1


I haven't been able to name my droids for some time, am I missing something new, do I have to be in a certain spot now? Not sure I am doing anything different than how I always named them. What is the name restrictions on them.


Thanks in advance.



Dew Bacca (Gorath)
Elder Bounty Hunter and loot junkie
Verrak (Gorath)
Master Trader (Engineering)

My life style determines my death style.
Xantores
Sun May 02, 2004 9:23 am
#2

I'm guessing you have a 3PO, LE Repair or surgical droid. Any droids that 'talk' cannot be renamed anymore as far as I know. All the other droids are named the same as pets.
JaasonKel
Sun May 02, 2004 10:44 am
#3

Why is it that the R-type droids can be renamed but the talking ones cannot? I have an LE Repair droid with combat model and want to give him a witty name!



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Naboo (Bria).
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...and making SWG a better place to be.
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Dewbacca_BHG_
Sun May 02, 2004 1:54 pm
#4

I have having the problem with a 3PO, Repair and a probot.



Dew Bacca (Gorath)
Elder Bounty Hunter and loot junkie
Verrak (Gorath)
Master Trader (Engineering)

My life style determines my death style.
Blu_Haze
Sun May 02, 2004 3:43 pm
#5






JaasonKel wrote:
Why is it that the R-type droids can be renamed but the talking ones cannot? I have an LE Repair droid with combat model and want to give him a witty name!






Because the commands are given to them differently. If you notice you are programming your astromech type droids, but you have to actually talk to the other droids. My best guess on why this happens like this is that you used to be able to rename them, but people were also renaming faction petsas well (which you converse with almost identically) so the devs brought the hammer down and nerfed it all to hell. Not being able to name the talking droids as well was probably just a side effect of this.


Just a guess though.



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psikobunny
Sun May 23, 2004 1:01 pm
#6

some of this is out of date, but the instructions for naming still apply


http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=droid_engineer&message.id=64526





Gilack Mehoipou [Bloodfin]


Quintuple Master- Marksman/Squad Leader/Rifleman/Vortex Pilot/Politician


Made it before all hell broke loose.



BallzacMST
Mon May 24, 2004 12:55 am
#7

Can I rename a droid once its in my datapad? Three "an r3 droid" in my datapad can be confusing


Thanks



ikoron (ahazi) = Master Pistoleer / Bounty Hunter 0/0/4/0 / Master Swordsman (retired) ---- akaron (lowca) = Fencer 3/4/4/4 / Master Doctor / Master Combat Medic (retired) / Master Dancer (retired) / Master Musician (retired) / Master Image Designer (retired) / Master Entertainer (retired)
Koolbacca
Tue Jun 22, 2004 11:07 pm
#8

i named my droid once, by programming at least 4 things a few times, but i want to change its name and i cant. i've been reprogramming things with the new name i want, but its not changing. can anyone help me?



Sunrunner - Koolbacca - Master Rifleman / Master BH
Bria - Kung-Foo Fighting - Master Fencer / TKM / Master Swordsman
ranger_one
Tue Jun 22, 2004 11:14 pm
#9

According to J'vees Owner's Manual...

http://www.jveedroids.com/manual.html

"Remember. the names can not contain any numbers, is case sensitive, and can not have any punctuation except dashes and apostrophies."

Maybe that might help??



Xentarus
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Koolbacca
Wed Jun 23, 2004 7:34 pm
#10

Yeah, it did help. Thanx.



Sunrunner - Koolbacca - Master Rifleman / Master BH
Bria - Kung-Foo Fighting - Master Fencer / TKM / Master Swordsman
ElfDruid
Wed Jun 23, 2004 9:23 pm
#11

Yeah, while it's probably a good idea to have droid and pet names follow player naming rules, why can't we have numbers for our droids? I mean, I'm tired of seeing probots named "Spunky." I wanna see droids with letters and numbers alas EVE-9D9 or 4-LOM or C-3PO etc.




Reul Eidolon

The Crescent Order

Captain - Iron Butterfly and Spectre 16
Shugard
Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:52 pm
#12

I had a customer come in today and buy on of my Det droids. It was an R3 but he was going to use it as an R2 Helper Unit. I made it the appropiate colors for him and transfered it back. He then tryed to name it RZ_Helper_Unit. It would not stick to that name. I have seen other droids around with names like "come_to_my_shop_on_tat" and stuff like that. Why would this name not stick?Was really cool he even had the newb clothes made and he was wearing them. Was gonna go up to the jedi acting like a total newb.


If someone can explain why the name wouldn't stick and some ideas of what to name it that would be great


Also can you rename a droid once it is named?


Thanks


Anigma of Brai

Master Droid Engineer

Master Merchant

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Anigma of Bria
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Master Merchant

Anigma's Harvesters WP 5292 6067, Kaadara Naboo


- I support a rollback and keeping & balancing the old combat system.
...and making SWG a better place to be.
Your voice counts!
Talmor1
Tue Jan 18, 2005 3:11 pm
#13

I think it has something to do with Naming Protocols. Like, why you can not name your character Han Solo or Luke Skywalker. I think SOE has protect Names and that could be one of them. However, I do not have any supporting information to back that. Perhaps something that is in the coding with naming it that.



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Sunrunner Galaxy
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