Preparing for SWTOR - Naming your characters

Chris

Propecius

Preparing for SWTOR - Naming your characters

December 09 2011
To calm my anxiety over the wait for SWTOR to go live, I have been planning what characters I will create. During beta, I wasn't too concerned about toon names because I knew they would all be going away. But in the real game I want to come up with good names on day one.

So I started playing with Star Wars-sounding names, and things just got sillier from there. I present you with (in table form, I didn't have the time or server to code it into a web program with a random number generator) my

SWTOR Name Generator Table

Just pick one entry in each column, and you've got your name! I'm particularly fond of Manly Kumplopper myself, but your mileage may vary.
Josh

ryyven

Re: Preparing for SWTOR - Naming your characters

December 09 2011
I think I ended up with Saggy Jokstrapper >.>
Whittier Strong

SiranNataan

Re: Preparing for SWTOR - Naming your characters

December 10 2011
I like Drool Laddiestripper, myself.
X Centric

Xcentric

Re: Preparing for SWTOR - Naming your characters

December 10 2011
Anel Kumblaster!! lol
Chris

Propecius

Re: Preparing for SWTOR - Naming your characters

December 10 2011
Dang, those are way dirtier than any I came up with, and I wrote the list! Nice job, guys. I'm seriously laughing out loud. :laugh:
Patrick

Van

Re: Preparing for SWTOR - Naming your characters

December 10 2011
Quote by Xcentric
Anel Kumblaster!! lol


Holy cow I just spit coffee out my noise! LOL Love it.
X Centric

Xcentric

Re: Preparing for SWTOR - Naming your characters

December 12 2011
hee hee

Also, here's some more food for thought thanks to Aldente...

Quote by Aldente
You choose one name at character creation. You can choose whether to make that sound like a first name or a last name or something ambiguous. There are a large number of titles and some folks argue that some of them sound better if your chosen name is a first name and others sound better if your chosen name is a last name. For instance, if you named your trooper Brad, one of your early titles would make you appear as Sergeant Brad which some might say sounds like a stripper. If you opted to call your trooper Patton, you'd be Sergeant Patton.

The other consideration is that once one of your characters completes Chapter One of your class story, you earn legacy status and can choose a legacy name. The legacy name is used for all your characters. For each character, you can choose to display the legacy name as a last name, as a title following your name, or not display it at all. To continue with the example, you could name your character Brad and choose Patton as your legacy name which would mean that you could run around as:
  • Brad Patton
  • Sergeant Brad Patton
  • Sergeant Brad, the Patton Legacy


If your character was a Bounty Hunter, you could even be Brad Patton, Hired Gun.

Does that help?
Chris

Propecius

Re: Preparing for SWTOR - Naming your characters

December 14 2011
Thanks for that. (And I really want to see pictures of this Sergeant Brad stripper you mentioned.) I found out about Legacy names after I posted this. Hopefully it's still helpful to people for choosing a first or last name, and or a legacy name.

I like some of the names with funny sounds in them, like Starplopper, or Cloudpiddler. It starts out serious, then gets completely silly in the middle. Maybe I'm just easily amused.
Angel

Angelsilhouette

Re: Preparing for SWTOR - Naming your characters

December 15 2011
I think what we need is something much simpler, like Darth Fabulous.
Chris

Propecius

Re: Preparing for SWTOR - Naming your characters

December 15 2011
Quote by Angelsilhouette
I think what we need is something much simpler, like Darth Fabulous.


You're allowed 15-letters for a name, but no spaces. So it would have to be Darth'Fabulous, or maybe Dab'Fab for short.
Angel

Angelsilhouette

Re: Preparing for SWTOR - Naming your characters

December 15 2011
Quote by Propecius
Quote by Angelsilhouette
I think what we need is something much simpler, like Darth Fabulous.


You're allowed 15-letters for a name, but no spaces. So it would have to be Darth'Fabulous, or maybe Dab'Fab for short.


Or just Fabulous with the Darth title. ;)