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That last suggestion reminds me of the policy on the MUD I used to be on (and which I bang on about a lot). Essentially, you had a name, but could acquire what was called a "suffix". Hence the player Fleet chose the suffix funky (and had acheived the rank of necromancer), so it would say, whenever they were in the room, Fleet the funky necromancer is here, with a huge afro.
Now the thing is, creating suffixes can only be done by wizards/admins. And in general, you only chose one, and only when you'd been around for a certain length of time. The point was that you basically acquired something to keep you in character - more in character, if anything - and had to live up to the suffix, because you weren't going to get a new one every week.
I'm not using this to suggest we only have one suffix, but perhaps username+suffix (as, for instance, I have here) would be a good idea. Then you're forced to ALWAYS have a consistent part of your suit, and can have something after it to indicate status or whatever.
Suffixing seems to be the most popular form of alteration (see, for instance, Flux=suffix, or Anna de L.). The only users this might inconvenience are people like Lada who like to alter the whole suitname subtely.
Actually, just reaslied - we don't want login names displayed. So the formula should be something like fixed name chosen at registration or when new-style is set up + suffix. And a cap on suffix length... |
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