But do it in a similar way to switching governments.

If you're still in protection, you get to do it 'free' like switching from Mono to Dict, but if you're oop.. make a hefty penalty on the country.

You can't really change a real country's name without some kind of civil war or disorder.

I was actually thinking about this last night :p

that may play havoc with some hosting sites though
Boxcar would be fine with it, i think
we change country names all the time for people and boxcar never complains

also, it creates a slightly bigger headache for mods :-/

i like this idea

i'd say one chance while in protection, more is not needed

Being able to change during protection is kind of a useless addition IMO. How many times are there that you name your country and then you want to change it in the next 100 turns? If you do that you should have just actually thought about your country name.

I see this more fun for things like war or endset renaming. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to change your name to mock the alliance you are warring? haha

you can mess something up and want to fix your problem

and dont come crying to me once you're deleted because of your new country name ;)

I don't think the idea was for making a spelling mistake in creation, I thought it was to allow more creative naming hehe.

And if someone midset changes there name to something so stupid/vulgar that they need to be deleted....they probably deserve it :)

allow change in protection sounds fine to me

I suggested it because there have been a few times where I make my country, then after the fact, learn that there is a tag theme and would like to change it.. I'm sure the mods encounter this kind of stuff all the time. It would be nice to take some work off their shoulders by letting users do this in a controlled way.

It would be a welcome feature, even if countries could only change their name while under protection. Now that I think about it, changing country names oop (even if there is a hefty penalty) would/could be abused greatly.

Thanks for the positive feedback :)

makes sense to me within the first 72 hours of the set or the first 100 turns.

No problems with this for GHQ. Since country numbers are unique we only use that. The name can be changed any number of times.

same with lks