Image Designer Archive
Thread: New Skill for hte ID?
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Kurrlee
Thu May 13, 2004 7:32 am
#1
N00bie here sorry if someone has suggested this before and it got shot down.
I am going to submit request for new feature and I thought it would tie in nicely with your skills.
Change lastname.
Or for those that did not set their lastname (like me) to set lastname.
I am going to submit request for new feature and I thought it would tie in nicely with your skills.
Change lastname.
Or for those that did not set their lastname (like me) to set lastname.
Kwee
Thu May 13, 2004 7:49 am
#2
That's been a popular request for ID'ers 
Apparently our first and last names are tied into all of our interactions with the game (or just first for those with no last names) which would make it really difficult to implement such a thing 
Apparently our first and last names are tied into all of our interactions with the game (or just first for those with no last names) which would make it really difficult to implement such a thing
dylan_1988
Thu May 13, 2004 7:51 am
#3
I don't think anyone has asked this yet but I personaly think we need a mayor of a city to do that. But I do like the idea of being able to change your name and everything.
Syzygy-Gorath
Thu May 13, 2004 8:01 am
#4
dylan_1988 wrote:
I don't think anyone has asked this yet but I personaly think we need a mayor of a city to do that. But I do like the idea of being able to change your name and everything.
As Kwee said, this was one of our new feature requests. Unfortunately, last names seem to be intimately tied to a toon's in-game identification as far as the code is concerned, so having the ability to change them (for anyone, not just IDs) is not a possibility.
Kurrlee
Thu May 13, 2004 11:49 am
#5
Pity.
That was very short sighted on the part of the SOE developers.
That was very short sighted on the part of the SOE developers.
Xnera
Fri May 14, 2004 12:22 am
#6
Not only short sited - but bad design, and I can't imagine this is the real reason.
There is no reason at all to store a player's name with any thing in game, only thier ID. Anyone with just a smidgen of database design knowledge knows that you always associate words with a #, because #'s take up less space - you shouldn't have relationsbased onwords. If some SWG developer told you this is why they can't allow this function, they either don't know what they are talking about or made something up.
For example, if you have a sig here on the forums, and you change it, it changes EVERYWHERE, not just on future posts, but old ones as well. This is because your post is identified to you by your forum ID (some number you don't see) and sigs are attached, not inserted into the message (this is good db design and saves space).
So changing someone's name would be the same. (they haveeasily changed player's name when in violation).
The only reason they wouldn't change someone's name is because that name is recognizable by everyone else in the game. People and players recognize words, not numbers. However this is only the first name - I can't see any reason why last name shouldn't be changable. People canhave duplicate last names in the game(if you make it this way at the start)so it is not any means of identification and we should be able to change or add a last name.
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