One day it would be nice if we all used our real names but unfortunately we live in a world where it can be misused. Would kinda like my name to be on the first system I discover.
Proposal Discussion Cheating the system with commander names.
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Not to be mean or disrespectful to the people with a foreign language festooned with diacritics but just because it's a pain in the hoop!
Dealing with domain names and worse on a daily basis (eugh, let me tell you that diacritics are a very small problem, "there's Hiragana somewhere in my Katakana and that's a cat face" is a common complaint in the field), I can agree to the latter part; however, restricting things to a 7bit-clean namespace is retro to the point of being ignorant. There are schemes to avoid gross misrepresentation (which mostly deal with mixing scripts), and there are also viable checks to rule out the most glaring attempts at "fun".
Frontier-installed moderation is also really good at censorship, so I don't think allowing a character set this side of the 1990s would be much of an issue.
If I recall my bookshelf accurately, Da5id is a character in Snowcrash (Neal Stephenson). So the numeric is not representing anything else, its simply part of the name. I always liked the use of the 5 for that name.
Not sure where the Weartherwax comes from.
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Back in june, it took 1-2 days for mine to be accepted - don't remember exactly, but it definitely wasn't instantaneous - might have taken longer than a more generic name for rather obvious reasons, but I interpreted that as an indication of it being checked manually.
You will now sit down and read every single Discworld book.
I think this is the reality of trying to register anything unique on the internet these days, there's just a lot of people...
It's hard to police, it's probably too late to do so, and I think the time in doing so or preventing this can be better spent elsewhere. That would be my take anyway.
It's hard to police, it's probably too late to do so, and I think the time in doing so or preventing this can be better spent elsewhere. That would be my take anyway.
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on 1 hand I hate... and in this case I do not think that hate is too strong a word..... names like CMDR C00l Dud3 etc etc etc
I think it is tacky/chavvy and ideally would love it if it had not been allowed.
but I guess it is too late to fix now
also, further more, as repartition is not allowed, if the game really takes off, it may end up a royal PITA trying to find unique names without numbers
but on the flip side I would not want every other name to be some celeb or holywood sci fi character either, which may happen if repartition was allowed.
so, in short... I have no idea of a solution
I think it is tacky/chavvy and ideally would love it if it had not been allowed.
but I guess it is too late to fix now
also, further more, as repartition is not allowed, if the game really takes off, it may end up a royal PITA trying to find unique names without numbers
but on the flip side I would not want every other name to be some celeb or holywood sci fi character either, which may happen if repartition was allowed.
so, in short... I have no idea of a solution
In the other environment from which I drew the identity, yes, but AFAIK not here. I didn't care in either case, it's actually a deliberate homage to both "Snow Crash" and to the Diskworld books... Felt kinda appropriate since I am a pagan geek
Heya,
I'd like to chime in here.
Personally speaking, I was hoping they'd be a little more strict with their naming policy, because I like to immerse myself in games I play.
Coming across commanders named "Donald Duck" (I kid you not) or commanders with 'leet' names (eg. Commander Willpwnurss), breaks immersion for me.
That is just my opinion.
Cheers.
I'd like to chime in here.
Personally speaking, I was hoping they'd be a little more strict with their naming policy, because I like to immerse myself in games I play.
Coming across commanders named "Donald Duck" (I kid you not) or commanders with 'leet' names (eg. Commander Willpwnurss), breaks immersion for me.
That is just my opinion.
Cheers.
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rootsrat
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I would like to see a censorship when it comes to Commanders' names. Nothing annoys me more in online games than silly names... It's a showstopper immersion breaker for me.
P.S. I've seen Commander Br@ben or Br4ben (can't recall now. Note this is not name and shame comment, just an observation) in game some time ago. I know that name should not be allowed and yet FDEV clearly allowed this one through... Very strange.
P.S. I've seen Commander Br@ben or Br4ben (can't recall now. Note this is not name and shame comment, just an observation) in game some time ago. I know that name should not be allowed and yet FDEV clearly allowed this one through... Very strange.
From a game mechanic stand point, the name is the database token used when other players are communicating with you, so that name has to be unique.
From a realism stand point, there could be any number of people with the same name.
It therefore would make more sense for your "name" to comprise a First name, and/or Last name, and a required "call sign". The call sign is then the unique identifier, with the first/last name being more for imerssion than actual game mechanic. There's then no reason why there can't be a few Cmdr Jameson's.
From a realism stand point, there could be any number of people with the same name.
It therefore would make more sense for your "name" to comprise a First name, and/or Last name, and a required "call sign". The call sign is then the unique identifier, with the first/last name being more for imerssion than actual game mechanic. There's then no reason why there can't be a few Cmdr Jameson's.
I'm not a fan of L337 names. And especially names like Warezyurfaddah or Whoseyurmum or Ipwnu (examples only, not a real name that I am aware of!).
But i can't stop someone from choosing that sort of name. I can only attempt to distance myself from them or remove their presence from my area. They may be fine people but it should be a name or handle not a message or question or derogatory or offending statement. Of course, I question the decision making ability of that individual and place them high on my 'possible target' list when I come across them.
But i can't stop someone from choosing that sort of name. I can only attempt to distance myself from them or remove their presence from my area. They may be fine people but it should be a name or handle not a message or question or derogatory or offending statement. Of course, I question the decision making ability of that individual and place them high on my 'possible target' list when I come across them.
Donald Duck is a 'leet' name? How so?
Mr. Duck and a few more might want to have a word with you.
For various reasons, I feel rather uncomfortable around people trying to curtail the freedoms of others for nothing but their personal opinion on what someone else should do.
With all due respect, but as long as it's not offensive, advertising or otherwise explicitely prohibited, another commanders name is absolutely none of your business.
I think the block feature should be adjusted so people will definitely not end up in the same instance with blocked people.
That would be the most tolerant approach and should be acceptable for both sides.
Of course that's just my opinion either.
Fixing it would be a doddle, it's in a database. Just change the offending names that are already in use to something random but approved, and change all new names to an approved format.
I'd like to change my forum name to something else, when I joined the forum I hadn't decided on a commander name so I just used one I use on another forum.
I'd like to change my forum name to something else, when I joined the forum I hadn't decided on a commander name so I just used one I use on another forum.
I understand about breaking immersion if leet names are used based on this era, but we should also consider that 1200 years in the future things could be different.
Even now there are some awesome names...http://theproudparents.com/10-illegal-baby-names
Even now there are some awesome names...http://theproudparents.com/10-illegal-baby-names
Reading the subject of this thread I though this was about a commander name like
As in http://xkcd.com/327/
cheers,
Commander Benderson
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Jameson'); DROP TABLE Commanders;--As in http://xkcd.com/327/
cheers,
Commander Benderson