I like this idea, and the IRC analogy makes sense, I would like it even going a bit further and have not the same display names in the same estate/continent. To prevent abuse in 4 corner sims situations.
-Frans On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Carlo Wood <ca...@alinoe.com> wrote: > While there may be 1 million users (at some time in the future) > using Second Life, the display name would be used for distinguishing > friends and people in your neighborhood. > > Being an old-time IRC developer, I see simularities with > IRC nick names (that can collide) and how I'd have solved > that if I had been given the chance :p. > > What I'd do is tag every display name (internally) with > the time at which it was set. Then, when someone enters > a sim where someone has the same display name, the youngest > of the two is reset (the server could reset it to empty > and ask at the same time for an alternative; the viewer > could be changed to provide an alternative automatically, > provided that didn't exist also already). An empty display > name would result in the username being displayed, of course, > which is supposedly unique. > > This would reduce griefing a lot, since you'd have to guess > what display name someone is going to use before they set > it. It would also reduce confusion because it would not > be possible for two people to have the same display name > when in the same sim. > > Most of this idea (adding a timestamp and comparing > display names when someone logins in or teleports to > a new sim; resetting it and asking for an alternative) > is almost exclusively server-side though; not sure who > to contact to propose it. > > -- > Carlo Wood <ca...@alinoe.com> > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges > -- Jeroen Frans Virtual World Technology Specialist @ http://VesuviusGroup.com Second Life: Frans Charming blog about SL @ http://secondslog.blogspot.com
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