A "MUST" for the game!!!

[Attila the Hun]

You must implement it that way that player names could accept up to 15 character or more.

I want Attila the Hun...

I hate it when I end up having a name like AttilaTheHun (which usually ends up formatted to Attilathehun) or Attila_dahun or something like that :) !spaces included as well!

:p hihi

Attila_dahun ... arrrh I mean Attilathehun.... ohhhh Attila the Hun !

[triangle]

spaces are possible. but the comunication system needs to be designed with spaces in mind.. it makes coding for comunication a little more difficult but not a real problem.... the hardest part will be speed... spaces in a name require a different compare function which is slower.. which means fewer people will be able to play at the same time... but... with the speed of computers today.. i dont think that will be a real concern tommorrow

[Attila the Hun]

Originally posted by triangle
spaces are possible. but the comunication system needs to be designed with spaces in mind.. it makes coding for comunication a little more difficult but not a real problem.... the hardest part will be speed... spaces in a name require a different compare function which is slower.. which means fewer people will be able to play at the same time... but... with the speed of computers today.. i dont think that will be a real concern tommorrow

What are you talkin' about...???

[triangle]

i am talking about the work that must be done to allow people to have spaces in their name. sorry if i got a little techinical

[UBIK]

Its actually not that difficult. One could make adding spaces with just a single line of code.

[Attila the Hun]

aha...
please lighten me up triangle... what is actually that "big" amount of work ...?

[triangle]

ok.... here goes.

the chat fucntion of the game are used a LOT. the current compare functions that come with all compilers are optimized to work the fastest with strings that have no spaces. these functions compare each word in 2 strings seprately so having a name with 3 names will have a background compare function called 3 times to verify that the entire string matches the original.

this is not a big deal with massive servers with TON of CPU power and Gigs of memory.

but with a little more work from the programers they can make their own compare functions just for long names and reduce the demands on the server.

the chat functions are used for each time you comunicate with a NPC or PC or with Guild chat, race chat, etc...

im not complaining.. i want long names in the game. :)

[Billz]

Im sorry to say but long names ruin the game no real person or thing on a planet wherever will have 3 words for a name. If you want a cool name you should have to earn it by doing somthing like being a king in a city or a master at somthing makes people try harder to become somthing to have a name that stands out to make them look good.

[UBIK]

hmm.... Just about every english person i know has 3 names, first middle and last.... oh, what about spanish speaking areas, i have a few friends from argentina who have really looooong names.

I dont see how long names "ruin the game".

Please explain why you say that.

there are plenty of "things" that have 3 or more words for a name.

[Billz]

I didnt mean it ruins the game what i meant was it leaves no room for names that people earn for doing something great. If there isnt going to be a system like that then its fine but i think it would be a good idea to be able to earn cool names to be noticed by everyone in the world.

[UBIK]

there is a way around this.

What could happen is when creating a name, if it contains any words that is a special title it wont let them create it.

i.e:
"King thag the smasher" ->cannot create
"Thag the smasher" -> can create

We could take it even farther by not letting "the ____" in also

i.e:
"Thag the smasher" ->cannot create
"Thag the barbarian" -> cannot create
"Thag" -> can create

as for "Attila the hun" and "Thag the caveman" the game could add "the ___" to your name if you do something like live in a cave and have bad eating habbits, or if you were a famous hun.

"Ubik the god of darkness" could only happen if i was the god of darkness.

When creating a name, i think we should have to put a first and a last name, and a requested title like "the hun" and if your lucky enough you will recieve that title. Then while playing you could choose how you want your name seen. "Attila" "Attila *lastname*" or "Attila the hun" or "*last name* the hun"

[Slitherrr]

Obviously, there has to be a distinction made between names and titles, but there is nothing wrong with three-, four-, or five-word names associated with a person... And it happens all the time.

[UBIK]

yea, just like Kymeri's full name...

and btw! welcome back Slith!