Player names and ideas

[JohnR]

Chris,

Do you intend to allow players to set their nickname? And are they
intended to be unique on each server?

If they were unique, that could have some benefits (but it would also
require keeping track of the names and avoiding duplicates on the
server).

The benefits would be:

you could have new chat box commands like:

/find PlayerName
This would tell what level that player is on.

/join PlayerName
or
/meet PlayerName
This would take the player to the same location as PlayerName
(perhaps to the last portal that PlayerName went to, or maybe even
their last platform if possible?)

The chat history of a particular level would use all of the unique
player names.

A player could attempt to set their name with:
/nick NewNickname



Player nicknames could be used for a few things:
1) Pop up over the player when they join a level.
2) Show "Player 'Nickname' joined the level" and "Player 'Nickname'
left the level" in the level chat history/log once there is such a
thing
3) Show up somehow when a user mouses over another player to see who
they are.


What do you think?

Thanks,

-John

[Chris McCormick]

Hi John,

There are some great ideas in here, thanks for thinking about this. I really
like those additional commands like "/meet" and "/find".

At the moment my focus is 100% on fixing the network layer bugs. I will
probably add non-unique usernames before the proper beta release when I am
fixing the chat UI stuff, and then later on I will add unique usernames,
probably after I have the web registration bit working.

Cheers,

Chris.

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