Name Change in AWS

[Serenity "SerenityFireFly" FireFly]

When AWS came people were given an option to change their names, the new name change does not register with the friends list e.g person changes name,  then to their friends or people who have them on friends list,  friends list still shows old name not new one.

[Gebeleizis "Hultaan" Kapnobatai]

i prefer to have the old name , anyhow untill i start to figured out who is who, and beside that the name representation have an option to be renamed, i meet some friends whit name changed and i found out from local chat, or forum

[Jarod "Brickwit" McBrickerton]

I'm guessing that the player's name in the WRU doesn't change because it can be manually altered to whatever we like, including notes and stuff. At the same time it would be nice to be notified when a person on our WRU changes their name so that we can update our WRU accordingly and, more importantly, know who is sending us a PM in-game.

[Event "Janе" Horizon]

Unless there is some plan that I have not seen yet - the renaming of your avatar is a once-in-a-lifetime sort of thing which occurs only for those that had a Alpha account.

[Jarod "Brickwit" McBrickerton]

It seems like we won't have the chance to do it again within the game but there's always the option to change your avatar by a support request. Plus there's the issue of the so-far unenforced avatar naming restrictions that will require some players to change their in-game name.

So there's a potential issue with people changing their in-game name in several different ways, including far in the future. Therefore it's worth coming up with a good solution to the problem.

[AW "Dr.Butler" SSB Officer]

Unless there is some plan that I have not seen yet - the renaming of your avatar is a once-in-a-lifetime sort of thing which occurs only for those that had a Alpha account.

This supposition is the closest to the rules and plans we have for Survival at this moment.

By the way, it is now possible to use national characters for the avatar's name. We have already seen some players who used Cyrillic and some EU languages for the avatar names.

[Jarod "Brickwit" McBrickerton]

Hmm, I thought the PA of old said that only English characters were allowed but maybe this had more to do with software limitations than anything else.

Thanks for enlightening us on the plans, but it still means that many, many people on our WRUs might start AWS with entirely different names than what we know. Are there any plans to address the issue?

[AW "Dr.Butler" SSB Officer]

Hmm, I thought the PA of old said that only English characters were allowed but maybe this had more to do with software limitations than anything else.

Thanks for enlightening us on the plans, but it still means that many, many people on our WRUs might start AWS with entirely different names than what we know. Are there any plans to address the issue?

About 40% of players have used "rename" button and given own handles to others in their WRU contact list, so it is not easy to find out on how to "update" names.
We will need to restore the old DB, grab old avatar names, compare with what it is now, and for those which are used old ones, update to new ones? Complex script, but doable. Logged and will look into this somewhere after New Year.

[Event "Janе" Horizon]

Unless there is some plan that I have not seen yet - the renaming of your avatar is a once-in-a-lifetime sort of thing which occurs only for those that had a Alpha account.

This supposition is the closest to the rules and plans we have for Survival at this moment.

By the way, it is now possible to use national characters for the avatar's name. We have already seen some players who used Cyrillic and some EU languages for the avatar names.

He he - now that is going to be fun ... is there a way to cut & paste names that you see in game as I am sure that trying to type царем России will cause a lot of heartache.

[AW "Dr.Butler" SSB Officer]

By the way, it is now possible to use national characters for the avatar's name. We have already seen some players who used Cyrillic and some EU languages for the avatar names.

He he - now that is going to be fun ... is there a way to cut & paste names that you see in game as I am sure that trying to type царем России will cause a lot of heartache.

Already working on it.
As of now, you can select the name or any text in chat and right-click with your mouse on it to copy it to the clipboard. That, you can just paste it into chat box.

[Jarod "Brickwit" McBrickerton]

Actually I was thinking that some kind of notification system (maybe the Personal Informer window?) could let us know when someone on our WRU has changed their name from A "B" C to X "Y" Z so that we can make whatever changes we need. As you mention, a large percentage of us have customized how we see our friends' names to suit our own needs, some of us with many, many names. So automatically changing them to the new player name would probably cause more problems for those of us that customize than a simple notification would.

Imagine having the following WRU list for two years:

• Buys Picks - Cuey
• Buys Ores - SFF
• Makes Guns - Brick
• Makes HKs - Axle
• Buys Herbs - Irie
• ... and so on

Now imagine logging in for the first time in a few months to see:

• New Player Name 1
• New Player Name 2
• Makes HKs - Axle
• New Player Name 3
• New Player Name 4
• ... and so on

If it were me I'd want to PM each of them to figure out who is who but since everyone plays at different times it'd be a nightmare that would take along time to sort out. If I go through my whole list and change each player's description I'm sure I'll be set no matter what, and considering the much larger text box that would be preferable, but with tons of names to do it would take a lot of effort and several names could be changed without me knowing it before I was done.

[AW "Dr.Butler" SSB Officer]

You can click on "Status Icon" on a person from your contact list and it will display a "Passport" window - details about the person, where the *new* name will be shown too.
Yes, it could take some time to go through all but you can check who have changed the name.

[Jarod "Brickwit" McBrickerton]

I'd forgotten that clicking the status icon showed the avatar info that you see when clicking a person's name in the chat window, but the only way I see that being helpful for someone who changes their name (not to mention gender) is if I know what the player's citizen ID number was beforehand.


Edit: Okay, I see it now. With the old name showing whenever a player in the WRU logs in or out or changes their status it's easy to know who it is, but if you click the status icon you see the new name. I have someone on my WRU that changed their last name but I did not see this until I clicked the status icon. I think I prefer that it stay this way over the automatic change option based on the thoughts in my previous posts.

[Serenity "SerenityFireFly" FireFly]

Personally i would hate to have to go through all friends list and change each name manually, there should be an autocorrection code were a friend changes name and it changes it in friendslist too with a notification of the change in global chat, i was logged in earlier and kept gettin messages in global chat of what friends were doing (the ones with the picks next to you name that change status, i really dont think much of status change, id personally like to see things like notications of name change as global or direct to a friend.