I imagine there will be prefix titles like "The incredible _" and suffix titles like "_, destroyer of mailboxes" and I think the option should be there for both. I don't want to have to send a message to "Gorlitrax the alien when I can just send it to But because a make-your-own title is optional, you could always have it be the former rather than the latter if you so choose.Įdit: I was going to correct my spelling there, but then I realized what a great example I just made for myself of the problems with misspelling longer names. Like you said, once you add the account suffix it would even get longer. Giving them the ability to create their own title gives them the option of making "the Alien Auctioneer" a title, and thus all the system knows him as is Gorlitrax. If someone wanted to be Gorlitrax the Alien Auctioneer. Yeah, I think you missed the point entirely. So while having the ability to make your own titles would be welcomed I'd still like to have the option of having a longer name.īeing able to have names like Negasonic Teenage Warhead or Klarion the Witch Boy without having to delegate any part of said name to a title, while having the option to delegate part of the name to a unique/customizable title, would, I think, be best. Though others it might not if they want a name like "A tribe called quest" where you have to say the whole thing.
And that certainly would work for my purposes, for this specific character.
because the longer the character limit, the larger the database to hold character data will have to be, simply due to packing efficiency. So the structure of the database ought to inform this decision. That's why we have things like 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems for our computers. So due to "packing efficiency" stuff tends to be conveniently stuffed into multiples of 8. This is one of those things where computers like to store information in Powers of 2 due to the way binary works, where a bit is a single 1 or 0, and a byte is a string of 8 bits.
Use that consideration to create a menu of options governing the length of names in a Look Before You Leap exercise that will guide decisions towards a reasonable compromise answer. For the purposes of database storage sanity, I would presume that the storage of in the database will have particular "storage efficiency" at particular breakpoints depending on how many characters are allowed before and after the symbol. So If you could use just "Tagatha" for all those purposes, but still display "the Graffiti Witch" wouldn't that really be best?Ĭonsidering that we'll need to include the account name for "direct" communication with other players then going with just should be enough and thus get around the long-name "problem".ĭon't think there is any best case/scenario here since some people will want to have such a thing as part of their name while others will want it as a title so it's better to just leave it up to the player. Because, remember, the names are how people will send messages to you, send mail to you, etc. So long as it wasn't an achievable title, it would be a good idea for customization without having 25 character names. Tagatha would be the name, the Graffiti Which is her title, so I wonder if we could have a "create-your-own" title. Though I do have "Tagatha the Graffiti Witch" as a character I want to create, and it'd be nice to have their whole name out to show.
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