Friendly rebellion - A case for the Titans?

[Shenron]

You cannot ever change the name of your realm. Ever. Not even if you win the rebellion.

There probably should be a way. Somehow.

[Sacha]

There probably should be a way. Somehow.

There is 

[De-Legro]

There probably should be a way. Somehow.

Secede, name new realm, go to war, destroy old realm. So long as its not a OOC plan and everyone just gives into the new realm, you are golden.

[Chenier]

Secede, name new realm, go to war, destroy old realm. So long as its not a OOC plan and everyone just gives into the new realm, you are golden.

You forgot "Beg to Tom".

[Bedwyr]

Secede, name new realm, go to war, destroy old realm. So long as its not a OOC plan and everyone just gives into the new realm, you are golden.

That would be a very blatant evasion of game mechanics.  Tom does not want realm names changed as a rule.

[egamma]

That would be a very blatant evasion of game mechanics.  Tom does not want realm names changed as a rule.

See-France, Spain, Portugal. Realm names do not change.

[Sypher]

See-France, Spain, Portugal. Realm names do not change.

Except sometimes they do, for example Burma is now Myanmar.

[Chenier]

Except sometimes they do, for example Burma is now Myanmar.

Modern ones do, now and then.

[Bedwyr]

Except sometimes they do, for example Burma is now Myanmar.

According to Wikipedia, both names have actually been in use for centuries, with one as the literary name and the other as the spoken name.

[Shenron]

According to Wikipedia, both names have actually been in use for centuries, with one as the literary name and the other as the spoken name.

They still changed their official name. Same story in Thailand (used to be called Siam.)

Realms should be able to change their name with like a 90% vote from the realm or something like that imho. Obviously there should be other impediments to changing a name also.

My main beef is that sometimes there are very good rp reasons to change a name.

[Chenier]

A very long time ago, Tom said realms don't change name because that's a very modern thing to do.

[Shenron]

A very long time ago, Tom said realms don't change name because that's a very modern thing to do.

Meh. I suppose I don't really care. It would just be kind of cool if we could change our name under very special circumstances.

Yeah maybe it wouldn't be medieval but I can definitely see it fitting right in to the BM brand of medieval if you know what I mean.

[Shizzle]

Meh. I suppose I don't really care. It would just be kind of cool if we could change our name under very special circumstances.

Yeah maybe it wouldn't be medieval but I can definitely see it fitting right in to the BM brand of medieval if you know what I mean.

"Very special circumstances" is exactly what many people in BM are after.

[Indirik]

That's what you get in games like BattleMaster: Everyone wants to be special. Very few people are content to be the normal, run of the mill noble who just does exactly what's expected of him. Everyone wants to be the exception, or the special circumstance. So if you create something that can only happen rarely, and under special circumstances, then you're going to have 386 people all trying to be that exception, and have a perfectly reasonable (to them) explanation as to why they should be allowed to do it.

[egamma]

That's what you get in games like BattleMaster: Everyone wants to be special. Very few people are content to be the normal, run of the mill noble who just does exactly what's expected of him. Everyone wants to be the exception, or the special circumstance. So if you create something that can only happen rarely, and under special circumstances, then you're going to have 386 people all trying to be that exception, and have a perfectly reasonable (to them) explanation as to why they should be allowed to do it.

"But Llama meat is our realm's favorite dish, and we held a referendum and voted to change our name to Llama Meat!"