This was already mentioned. Read and think twice, before you post.
/failpost
Two things:
- There are other online-games where you can change your names, and bans, stats or anything like this are not affected (i.e. America's Army).
- We cannot know if it's a lot of work to implent this. That's not a valid argument until a dev turns up and tells us that it's an awful lot of work.
Although I don't really bother, I'd say:
signed
And now some tips for the future to those who get quickly bored of their names:
Register with a random cluster of characters and numbers.
Signed. ... Read my lfsw and you should understand. Once I asked the devs if it would be possible to change it and retain my current statistics in a case that I'm not banned on any server. The answer was something like "it's not possible" and that was all, I don't even know why it isn't possible, but the reason is probably that many people would want to change it too, so I understand ... My idea is something like - you can change your lfsw, if you are not banned on any server, if you have a very good reason for it and the new name must be confirmed by someone of the devs, or by a person chosen by devs, that the new name is alright, not rasist, not super stupid or so... and you can change it only once in a half year and it will cost like $5 or $10, so people won't do it whenever they want. Only people who are really unhappy with it and who really cares about their lfsw name will do it + devs could get some more cash.
A plugin that allows users to change their own username, and working on vB 3.8.3(this is 3.8.2?) is already available, with options such:
Like someone said, "a change once / year" is achievable, or once every 5 years for that matter. But:
It`s pretty much useless here, a place you`re warned from start to think before you commit.
It should be easy to implement, in a normal forum, that doesn`t have S2 accounts linked to usernames.
Or maybe the S2 usernames are stored in the same database as forum usernames (if you want to change forum's password you change the lfs.net's webpassword - this span me in this direction, wild guess, may not be true).
I think there are only a handful of people here who can respond to this issue knowing what happens back-stage, and i`m sure making this kind of change isn`t really easy, or implementing something like i quoted earlier could pose a potential security threat without thorough thinking. Everything could take 2 minutes, 10 clicks of a mouse, or several days/more of thinking and hundred lines of coding.
Perhaps when you create a new account, if you input your old credentials, a script may automatically transfer the stats from one license to the new one, marking the old one obsolete/disabling it, but what do you do if you`re [insert insult] enough to let your account taken away ? (keyloggers etc, yes, your fault). Again, hassle, unnecessary complications.
Seems the way to go is buy a new license, start clean.
Easier is to have a policy in place: "Username is permanent", and rightfully so. Reinforcing it from time to time with "permanent username is permanent" when seeing this type of threads may help. :P
At least this is how i understand it, as a regular joe.
Same here, but I did it on purpose, so I could have something stupid as my racername; Scary/Leary/Fairy. As for logitekg25, if you come up with one of the dullest usernames ever (although it seems to be an American trait to use controller/wheel names on here), then you should have to live with it!
Its not a good habit to pick up, wanting to start over again every time something goes tits up, it may start with small things, but what if it gets to the point where you want to start your life all over again? Well you probrably can't and its not a good idea to try.
I can see why some people want to change their names. Depends on how the databases are designed, but I think it should be possible to change usernames. It would make sense to make a piece of code that does all the stuff automatically, since if you are going to change one username, other people will want to have their names changed too. Letting people change their name by themselves would be a bit risky though, so a some kind of request system would be usefull. All this would probably take some time from the devs (in the short run and in the long run).
I am kind of on the fence on this issue. I don't mind the current situation, but I would probably change my username if it was possible.
i was not aware that vbulliten would not allow a name change when i made this, and it will be a bit of work, but if there are strict limitations about it it should not be too much of a problem
Well, it's beeing said that the username you choose will be permanent, so it's basicly a problem of some people
a) not being able to read
b) not being able to choose a name that they can live with for more than 2 month.
If it ever gets possible to change the username, I'd charge for changing it. Some lessons have to be learned.
Well i was framed when it comes to my username. Back in 2004 i dind't had any way of buying license myself so i asked someone(kemot) and he messed up my username with my password..so that was a real ***** after i got my s2 details. Oh well nothng can be done i guess. As i'm very attached to my lfsw stats i would not buy new account for a username. I'm pretty used to it now. But if there is a slight chance of changing it i'll take it. So i guess i can write signed too..
Note to self: read more, than just OP before posting.
Still, this is how LFS + mainly LFSWorld works, dunno if changing it wouldn't cause any trouble. And personally, i do not care about lfsw name, because ingame nick is, what matters to me.
I think I can recall one example where somebodies username was changed, but that was only because they registered with a username before certain restrictions were applied to usernames, which meant LFS would not unlock for them. The devs had to knobble the account info by hand to fix the problem.
So while technically possible, it's certainly not automated and thus presumably not quick, so unless your username falls into such exceptional circumstances, the devs are better spending their time improving LFS rather than catering to the whims of the fickle.
