Legacy surnames do not make sense

Looking at your characters name why do I have no problem understanding why you don't get this?!? :P
And that line has been over used, did you copy paste it?
It doesn't really apply here.
Nor anywhere really, unless you are playing game more abstract than Psychonaughts you want a good dose of realism along with your fantasy. You know, arms connected to shoulders, walking by putting one foot in front of the other, etc.

yah the "Legacy" system is as stupid as stupid get's.

and you left out the part where your kid/sibling/wife/husband/etc miraculously do the EXACT same thing you do! create another Jedi Knight to make a setinel instead of a guardian? well "jr." still trains under the same master...still follows the same story..still does the same side-quests.

it was a real downer for me whenI learned all my characters HAD to share this stupid name.

I want unique first/last names for all my chars..if I want to reuse one of those surnames on another character to make them my wife/husband/son/daughter/whatever then so be it.

But why is my Pure Blood Sith Warrior using the same surname as my Human Jedi Knight?

stupid..absolutely stupid.

give us real lastnames and make the "Legacy Name" totally seperate...so it's fine to "share" the Legacy over all chars while still letting us have unique characters.

it also severely limits role-players.

yet another bad decision on their part.

because Ben Skywalker grew up on Tattooine with a twin sister named Leia on another planet that he didn't know of. His uncle and aunt were killed by his (unkown to him) evil father. Ben Skywalker destroyed the Death Star after rescuing and fawning over the woman he didn't know was his sister...then went on to Dagoba to train under Yoda...then saved Han Skywalker from Jabba the Skywalker after Boba Skywalker froze him in carbonite.

because Jaina, Jacen, and Anakin Skywalker....do I need to go on?

the Legacy system is idiotic "Why is this so hard for people to understand?"

I would love it if the Legacy name became simply a title, like it can be now. Then, have "Surname" as a separate field that can be added to a character at the end of the prologue.

That way, as an example, I could have the following, all with a "The Revan Legacy" as a title:
Revan
Bastila Shan
Mission Vao
Canderous Ordo
Carth Onasi
Malak

... and so on.

The characters would still be saved by their first names. To send a whisper to Mission, it would be "/tell Mission Nice surname there."

I know it's more information to save with a character, but it's a simple text field, and it would go a long way to helping us roleplayers with our characters. We like having last names on our characters. It would be a hell of a bone to throw us. And we've been saying this since the Legacy information was made public before release.

Actually, Ben Skywalker grew up in a number of places. He was Luke's son.

But, yes, you are correct. The entire Solo family could be considered part of the Skywalker Legacy. I made this point back before release. Han and Leia even named a son after Anakin, the progenitor of the Skywalker Legacy. But, even before that, Leia was a part of the Legacy, but her family name was Organa, due to her adoption. Han was a part of the Legacy, as well, as were Chewbacca and the droids.

But you could also have a Solo Legacy, with Han as the patriarch, Leia as the matriarch, Luke as an ally, and so on. And this might be a Sith Legacy, due to Jacen's eventual fall to the Dark Side and becoming Darth Caedus. It's a viewpoint thing.

Either way, there are a lot of people in these Legacies that don't share family names. I would like to be able to do the same in game.

With the option to have it either not show at all, be an actual last name, or be in brackets as part of that legacy, I don't see how this is a problem for RPCs that are not actually related. Just don't show it then use your family tree to indicate those unrelated characters are rivals or allies or something.

umm that's how last names started in the first place.. whatever that person was good in life became the second name he/she would go by. Ie. John Shoemaker.. or Jennifer Barber or Kimberly Bowman.. or.. yadda yadda you get the point. The smith one you pointed out was take a huge guess... A Blacksmith!

But ya, my last name is starunner, mainly because I thought it sounded cool, but if I chose to I could give you a viable RP reason why my characters have that last name. I hate to sound like a jerk, but this post is frivolous.

Historically, this hasn't always been true. And it might change in the future. Just look at how many historical figures have a first name, followed by "the". William the Conqueror is one example. My own last name implies that I create and maintain horseshoes. Its logical that someone, at some point, in the past did so.

There are some cultures where family names exist only to identify which clan/family/dynasty/village you belong to. Most no longer exist, but there ya go.

There might be a very good mechanical reason for that. It might be because of the actual Legacy levels and rewards. The fact is you don't know if there is a reason for sure, or not. Don't assume you do.

The family-tree helps explain that. Kind of. That said, game mechanics and customization>lore of all kinds.

You almost had it figured out. It is your fault for doing something stupid. If you think that having the oppurtunity to do something stupid makes a system a bad system, you're delusional. By that logic almost EVERY SYSTEM IN THE GAME is a bad system, because they allow you to do stupid things. Like losing all of your credits to repair bills because you have terrible depth perception on Soa.

Its not BioWare's fault if you can't pay your repair bills. It's not BioWare's fault that you made your name Xx****ybunnyxx.

If you ignored the warnings saying that this was permanent, then it's your fault. No one else's.

It's only partially illogical, it won't create problems for a lot of people, and RP should be, at best, a tertiary concern for design.

I suggest the following changes should be made:

I'm not opposed to option B. But I don't think it should be free.

Again, there might actually be a reason why you can't.

Kinda destroys the idea of a Legacy, doesn't it?

There are limits to everything. That includes the story. BioWare is trying to incentive re-rolling, by adding some flavor to alts. At least they're offering some kind of explanation, instead of a Sith Warrior just mailing a Jedi Knight a lightsaber.

Pretty sure there's an option to turn the display off.

I'm convinced it has to do with actually tracking your rewards across your account. I might be wrong.

The Purebloods are a mix of the original Sith species, and the largely human Dark Jedi exiles. Take it from there. If you can't come up with something, oh well.

See above.

I don't even roleplay, and even I can see how it works. That you have no imagination is your own problem.

Disagree.

you don't "earn" a surname, you choose a legacy name which can then be displayed as a surname if you want.