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Navaron · 2003-02-05, 08:21 AM

I don't know that it's a problem, but yeah, that seems to be the case. It would appear that the server remembers what clan you are in and puts the name there. I wonder how that works, anyone got a clue?

Lillemanden · 2003-02-05, 09:08 AM

I guess it would be like DAoC, and that was fine to me, can't really see the problem.

FireFrenzy · 2003-02-05, 09:12 AM

Originally posted by MrVicchio
Personally, I wouldn't get too bunched up over it - especially since you can just shoot the people with dumb names.

Getting the go ahead to shoot anyone - meaning teammates too - if they have a dumb name, by the devs, beautiful

mistled · 2003-02-05, 03:17 PM

Originally posted by FireFrenzy
Getting the go ahead to shoot anyone - meaning teammates too - if they have a dumb name, by the devs, beautiful

You can always shoot teammates since there's no grief within an outfit, but you can't shoot the guy with a stupd name if he's in your empire, but not your group.

Lillemanden · 2003-02-05, 03:22 PM

Originally posted by {BOHICA}mistled
You can always shoot teammates since there's no grief within an outfit, but you can't shoot the guy with a stupd name if he's in your empire, but not your group.

I'm pretty sure there's grief within an outfit. Maybe you're just mixing outfit and squad...
Anyway you can still shoot, you'll just get griefpoints

Tobias · 2003-02-06, 10:22 AM

Also with leet speak the problem that many people who use it, such as myself, have bad grammer and worse spelling, making it even harder to read.

TerraxNovae · 2003-02-06, 11:01 AM

Hmm... Hope they haven't already gone with the "full name" outfit convention.

It WILL make a certian outfit easier to find, but having an outfit name longer than your name seems kinda strange to me...

----TerraxNovae
Tenth Armored Cavalry

(hypens are for spacing)

Whereas
TerraxNovae
---(TAC)

Seems much better.

Possibly a "Use Tag?" Checkbox with options related to that in the outfit creation dialog. You could specify Bracket type eg " ", [], {}, (), <>; And actual tag content. This would allow those outfits who want to use tags to use them, while those that want to use the full name can still do so.

LesserShade · 2003-02-06, 11:10 AM

Originally posted by afex

glad to hear they didn't go the way of the gay (everquest)

i heard that they will print the full outfit name below your characters name tho, and that sucks.

tags would work much better.

^negative =( i like the idea of the full outfit name

Lexington_Steele · 2003-02-06, 11:11 AM

Originally posted by LesserShade
I like the idea of the full outfit name

I like the idea of people being able to choose.

Lexington_Steele · 2003-02-06, 11:19 AM

Originally posted by afex

tags would work much better.

Here is the problem with tags, what happens if 5-10 different outfits have the same tags?

CDL could be
Canadian Defense League
Conglomerate Defense Legion
Champion Defenders of of Light
Complete Death Leaders

Who gets the rights to the CDL tags? Is it first come, first serve? What are the other squads going to do for tags? Just use different brackets you say? What happens if you run out of bracket characters?

Lillemanden · 2003-02-06, 12:25 PM

Complete Death Leaders

hehe great name, I would follow them into combat....

TerraxNovae · 2003-02-06, 12:30 PM

Lex, first come first serve, just like names.

With a minimum size for outfits (I heard 7 minimum) chances are that an outfit that takes a "cool" tag, will be around a while.

People that can't get the tag they want, just need to be creative.

afex · 2003-02-06, 02:14 PM

tags on the line below defeat the whole purpose of tags. its a "tag" b/c it tags itself ONTO your name.

it's all supposed to be inline.

afex · 2003-02-06, 02:16 PM

Originally posted by Lexington_Steele
Here is the problem with tags, what happens if 5-10 different outfits have the same tags?

CDL could be
Canadian Defense League
Conglomerate Defense Legion
Champion Defenders of of Light
Complete Death Leaders

Who gets the rights to the CDL tags? Is it first come, first serve? What are the other squads going to do for tags? Just use different brackets you say? What happens if you run out of bracket characters?

it is not your right to use whatever tag you choose, just as it isnt' your right to use whatever name you choose. why would outfits and tags be treated any differently than names?

Lexington_Steele · 2003-02-06, 02:31 PM

It is pretty damn weak if I can't use the letters of my outfits name in its tags. Why even have a tag that has nothing to do with your outfits name?

Then you might as well start limiting the outfit names by their Initials.