That is the thing, and it has been suggested before, that we have an overall "account" name, for the FDev account, and then you have CMDR names,
So my Account name could be "MistyPlaysED", and then my CMDR would be "Misty Dark", and then we get to the problematic part, as to actually have good information, we would now need to show both the account name and CMDR name. Something like "MistyPlaysED@CMDR Misty Dark" or "CMDR Misty Dark (MistyPlaysED)", etc
And you start to notice how confusing this could be.
We could split it up on separate lines, and then the UI is starting to be really crowded, and then we the upcoming squadrons, that we want to show, and we are many that would love to affiliate our CMDR to a minor faction so that should go here as well,. and then of course your ship name.
And if we never show the Account Name, then the renaming of CMDR name does not make sense, as we will not be able to recognize the player.
If we only shows the Account Name, then the CMDR name does not matter at all.
So we need to show both for this to be useful.
I have witnessed this problem in several online games, and it was always a mess until you showed both names at all times, and that introduced UI bloat instead, it can be real confusing when someone you are chatting with changes their name, when the game switched from Character name to the their account name.
What you seems to be after are more save slots to have different CMDR names, that all share the same resources/ships, and for this work, then we need to have sorted out the above with account name and CMDR names....this is another often requested feature, but there is different opinions on the shared resources...
So my Account name could be "MistyPlaysED", and then my CMDR would be "Misty Dark", and then we get to the problematic part, as to actually have good information, we would now need to show both the account name and CMDR name. Something like "MistyPlaysED@CMDR Misty Dark" or "CMDR Misty Dark (MistyPlaysED)", etc
And you start to notice how confusing this could be.
We could split it up on separate lines, and then the UI is starting to be really crowded, and then we the upcoming squadrons, that we want to show, and we are many that would love to affiliate our CMDR to a minor faction so that should go here as well,. and then of course your ship name.
And if we never show the Account Name, then the renaming of CMDR name does not make sense, as we will not be able to recognize the player.
If we only shows the Account Name, then the CMDR name does not matter at all.
So we need to show both for this to be useful.
I have witnessed this problem in several online games, and it was always a mess until you showed both names at all times, and that introduced UI bloat instead, it can be real confusing when someone you are chatting with changes their name, when the game switched from Character name to the their account name.
What you seems to be after are more save slots to have different CMDR names, that all share the same resources/ships, and for this work, then we need to have sorted out the above with account name and CMDR names....this is another often requested feature, but there is different opinions on the shared resources...
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