Origin of IGN's

[JaytB]

Hi,

With the servers being down at the moment, I thought of making this thread to fight boredom a little.

So, how did you choose your IGN?

I'll start

When I started PL, I created a bear named 'JaytB'. Having never played an MMO before, I thought my initials would do. Once I was like lvl 30 or something, and seeing a lot of funny and smart IGN's, I saw how much my IGN lacked in originality and how dull it really was. Then I discovered the magic mirror and found there were Panda faces... IKungFuPanda was born

My mage was originally called 'fulgurite' (It was a name I used in the early days of CB communication... Waaay before the Intertubes). After I while I got the idea of finding a more consistent naming for my characters... Hence IkungFuMage and IKungFuBird.


So what's the story behind your IGN's?

[Suntv]

O this IS fun!

SunTV is a combination of an older IGN and an item. I used to play Homeworld on the Pc using the IGN SunStorm[Co]. Co stands for the armada "Cloaking Order" which was mine and had approx 55 members at its peak. That was way back in 2001. Anyway in those days I was tweaking video compression formats, which were new at the time. DiVX was just new and I was playing around with a TV capture card from Pinnacle. Now and then I needed to ask questions to tweakers on forums so I added both to a new name:

SunStorm + TV capture cards = SunTV

I know lots of you are now losing money on the origin of my mystical name, thinking I'm Indian and spam Bollywood. It appears there is an Indian TV channel called SunTV. They still owe me Registered TradeMark Copyrights

[1337arded]

Well let me think back...my names are Slashurbum flashmybum and shooturbum....I originally used something that rhymed better with slash and flash but I got banned for 24 hours and names were changed... Man that was a long 24 hours lmao no worries tho the change was cool wit me

[Duke]

My Mains: Taia and Faldred are names I've used for years in PnP RPGs and CRPGs. Both were just somewhat fanciful, random names I came up with and liked well enough to use over and over again.

Questius, the often-restarted character designed to play through the "story" of the game via the quest system to test how well it works, is obviously just a play on the word Quest.

[AbsolutePally]

Alwaysdtf... Lol hopefully everyone knows what that means. This is actually my first mage and character that made it out of the forest campaigns. Initially it was just a dumb in the moment idea, I never knew I would get so into the game. Well it was a huge hit in game. People lol and friend me because of the name all the time. Getting many compliments is great!

[Arterra]

Arterra was thought of BEFORE I saw what the realm was named.

I was thinking: fantasy mmo? Terra. Oops, taken.
Ok then, let's add a prefix. Ar- makes a good sound, Arterra it is. Tada a legend is born.

[CanonicalKoi]

Well let me think back...my names are Slashurbum flashmybum and shooturbum....I originally used something that rhymed better with slash and flash but I got banned for 24 hours and names were changed... Man that was a long 24 hours lmao no worries tho the change was cool wit me

Every time I see Slash and Shoot around town, it makes me laugh. There's two of my favorite IGNs right there.

Yosinabe, first char, no clue--maybe I was hungry, lol. Gyoza, second char, carrying on the theme. Rauen broke the naming convention and it's a long story. Diffie was named for Whitfield Diffie, Whitfield already being taken. GrievousAngel for a drug in a William Gibson sci-fi novel. Partedmagic for a Linux distro.

[Weagledan]

I'm a huge Washington Capitals fan, and their mascot is an eagle. A washington eagle = weagle. The original 'weagle' name was taken (I know you're out there somewhere Weagle!), so I just added 'dan' on to the end of it (and no, my name's not Dan)

[neko]

SunTV is a combination of an older IGN and an item. I used to play Homeworld on the Pc using the IGN SunStorm[Co]. Co stands for the armada "Cloaking Order" which was mine and had approx 55 members at its peak. That was way back in 2001.

I loved Homeworld and its sequel.

Anichelith was my first character and as a noob, I didn't know better with the auto-generated name. Being the uber SRINGY that I am, I'm too much of a cheapie to rename her. Besides, it's kinda stuck ever since. I wanted to call my next character Ursus, latin for bear, but since it was already taken, Urrsus was born. The same happened for my next character, but since Corvus, latin for crow, was already taken, Corrvus was born.

[JaytB]

Alwaysdtf... Lol hopefully everyone knows what that means. This is actually my first mage and character that made it out of the forest campaigns. Initially it was just a dumb in the moment idea, I never knew I would get so into the game. Well it was a huge hit in game. People lol and friend me because of the name all the time. Getting many compliments is great!

Being from Belgium I had no idea what it meant really. Until now o.O

[RedRyder]

First name was surfingalien (a bird) named after Joe satriani's iconic song "surfing with the alien." I noticed mages killed faster in the beginning (used to be really fast in when I discovered the game a year ago) so I made "RedRyder" after my xbox live ign (redryder1482). Around ao2 I renamed all my chars. To follow the RedRyder tradition- RedRyder, scarletryder, crimsonryder, roseryder, vermlionryder, maroonryder, rubyryder, etc. My brothers and family members follow the tradition as well but with they're own colors (black and green so far, all others are imposters.)

[neko]

Being from Belgium I had no idea what it meant really. Until now o.O

Alwaysdtf?

*blank look*

I don't get it...

[Ellyidol]

Have always been Ellyidol in games (different actual spelling, but Elly looks better ).

It was an inside joke with friends, not suited for this forum

[RedRyder]

Alwaysdtf?

*blank look*

I don't get it...

Google it lol, it's inappropriate

[JaytB]

Alwaysdtf?

*blank look*

I don't get it...

I googled it. Not really appropriate to explain what it means here

Edit: red beat me to it

Have always been Ellyidol in games (different actual spelling, but Elly looks better ).

It was an inside joke with friends, not suited for this forum

Aren't we all friends? And, noooo not curious at all... But you can tell me

[superss]

superss a name i thought of that combines the word super with my initials Rss supeRSS

[Ellyidol]

Aren't we all friends? And, noooo not curious at all... But you can tell me

Of course we are! I meant bestfriends, all throughout elementary to highschool

Lets just say my ex looked like her

[Kindread]

I used to play a hardcore RP text-MUD called Achaea. It's actuall th highest rated MUD out there. Basically like Dungeons and Dragons on a computer and you're playing with the rest of the world. I ruled PvP with my deathknight Slayer Caine de Soulis and my apostate Kindread. I actually feel like a Dev whenever I pop back into that game. Everyone comes flying to my area and they're like whoa, are you really Caine? The Caine? Kinda the same treatment Lone gets here in PL.

[Riccits]

My real name is Richard, but all call me Ricci
XCarver=> www.extremecarving.com iam just loving it!

[NeoQueen]

I admit, with maybe a little embarrassment, that I am a Sailor Moon junkie. So much so that I downloaded all the original Saior Moon episodes in Japanese with English subtitles and the manga. There comes the IGN NeoQueen. Then people were calling me Neo in game, so I created NeoGoddess and NeoAngel. Now they are known as the NeoSupremes...lol


Just have to come up with a common theme for Blackstar now...