On 18/08/2010 6:50 PM, Lance Corrimal wrote:
On Wednesday 18 August 2010 10:20:03 Henri Beauchamp wrote:
Why restricting new user names to "Resident" ?
It's not a restriction.
the whole thing, as far as i can see, boils down to this:
there's the login, and the display name.
the login is _one_ word, chosen at account creation, and will stay the same
forever. For example, it could be something like andromeda02 or whatever.
the display name can be anything, and can be changed once a week.
So if you would create a new account for whatever reasons, you could choose
feedledumthebard as your login, and set your display name to "Henri Beauchamp
the 2nd."
What will happen to old accounts is that their login will be constructed by
using their avatar name, lowercase, and connecting the two pieces with a dot,
and by default their Display name will be the original avatar name.
That's where we connect with the viewer. Input and presentation. I can't
say as I'm thrilled by the account name being shown as 'tateru.nino' in
every place that the account name is displayed (or expected) by the
viewer. I've got capital letters and a space in my original name, after
all - and my expectation would be for the account-name to preserve that
(or if it is transforming it because the schema can't handle an 0x20, to
conceal that transformation from the viewer presentation layers insofar
as is possible to do so).
Heck, make my account/login '93ede1c5e1363385eb577efc312ae11d' and I'm
still just as happy - so long as what is /displayed /and /typed /as my
account name is still "Tateru Nino"
Having my account name visibly changed as a part of the process
(regardless of what is or is not done with display names) seems
unnecessary and lazy.
So, in my case, my login will be lance.corrimal and my dosplay name will be
Lance Corrimal.
and in an old viewer with no display name support it will stay that way.
Now what about the fictive new account that you created?
the login name is feedledumthebard.
the display name is "Henri Beauchamp the 2nd"
and in an old viewer with no support for display names it'll show as:
"feedledumthebard Resident".
It will only make the choice for the first name more dificult, since
"John" will be taken by the first new resident registering it, and then
others will have no other choice than to use numbers or weird characters
to register and we will end up with IRC-like names like John12345 and
John54321, which will make it only more difficult to distinguish all the
Johns from each others in-world (for identification purpose, such as
objects ownership, anti-griefing and stuff).
only for their LOGIN, which will not be the Display Name.
Display names do NOT have to be unique.
Think of display names as "group titles that don't need a group to be in", and
it becomes more clear.
The fact that display names don't have to be unique opens the biggest can of
worms though.
What keeps me from, lets say, creating a throwaway alt, setting its Display
Name to "Stiletto Moody", and hanging out at that famous shoe shop telling
people that the place will close down and that all rights to the designs have
been sold to (whatever the place is that will sell copybotted versions).
Other than the fear of having that throwaway alt getting permanently banned in
maybe a year or two when the g-team gets around to doing it.
What keeps me from setting the display name to the name of a well-known land
baron, hanging out at their hub, telling prospective tenants that there's no
free land but "so and so that we're cooperating with still has a few free
homesteads"...?
The fact that the login name can be seen in the profile does NOT mean that
people will understand the difference, or pay attention to it.
Keep in mind that there are LONG TIME RESIDENTS who still don't know how to
read a notecard. That paints a pretty black prospect of the mental capacities
of the generic noobie...
IF those display names arenot shot down before rollout (hopefully they are)
there needs a BIG section on discovery island covering them, and how to avoid
being scammed.
bye,
LC
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