[MrVulcan]

1st off, the_mann, if you are posting in a mmo fourm and talking about the nameing system of a game that is not out yet, you are just as big of a nerd are the rest of them *and wow, you dug up a very old thread!, didnt even see that

I see no problems with l33t names. If people want them, fine, if not fine. You dont have to have one, but why should you be allowed to tell someone that they can not have the name C001N355, or 7H31337n355, or even 1stStriker needs numbers, etc. They are not hard to read (sure when you get into hardcore leet, they can be but w/o the special chars, you cant do that) and if you take 3 secs to learn how to read it, its not that bad, some of the stuff can be fun. About the diffucality in typing someone's name, if you can not type numbers as well as letters, that is just sad, im sorry, but its not that hard to hit 0 insted of o. Sure some people will have 31 chars in their name, if that botheres you soo much, fine, just dont deal with them, its not like you will have to deal with those people that do that, there are 1000s that wont, go find them. But some people will want to have long names, let them, it does not take anything away from your game, and your not forced to have 31 char names.
People will never be happy with the nameing system, some will want 100 chars with all things on the keybord, others will want 2 chars with only letters.
Stop worring about this pointless stuff, and be happy that the majority of the people will be able to enjoy their game the way it is set up right now.

P.S.
I have no intention to using leet names, but I dont see why you have got to step in on someone elses fun