Nicknames

Since dear Ched thinks we shouldn't be able to change our names that often cause its our identity and yada yada (if you wanna read the whole thing), I suggest being able to have nicknames. Nicknames in real life come and go and are changed all the time so it does make sense to have them?

Cost: 10 points (increase by 1 every 10 times u use a nickname, so the 11th will be 11 points and the 21st will be 12 points and so on)
Where would it be: chat (maybe in a diff colour?) , forums(maybe?)
How long it lasts: 48 hours
What can it be? : ANYTHING! It could be a nickname or a username that is being used.


Other things to note
Name on profile stays the SAME
Name in miniprofile stays the SAME
In forums, it only changes the name on ur user with the honor bar NOT the info on the side which remains as the user.


PROs:
We can have festive nicknames or just try out names that we want to change for the long term
Points have a little bit more worth

CONs:




(pls post any qns/comments so that I can refine this post. Oh and pls R+)

This is a really interesting idea. It would allow for festive nicknames or joke nicknames temporarily. +R

bump

Thought of you immediately when I read this suggestion haha

i don't think it will happen as that's what a username is, it allows you to decide what you want to be called. i dont see how a nickname would be of any use to people who aren't in your faction/company, and even still if they wanted to call you a nickname they would no need to enforce it upon them.

Bump. Interesting concept but the points system required would probably require refining

Cool idea but I downvoted because it's already hard to keep track of names in torn esp, when someone changed their names, it's a struggle to try and find them.

Nicknames in chat/forums would mean an extra click to their profile to find out who that person is.

Maybe, nicknames only in faction chat seems like a good idea, not in private/global/trade chats and forums.

cool idea bump bump bump

It would open up an avenue for scammers if it allows use of currently active usernames (impersonation which is against rules). Limited to inside faction chat might be an interesting idea.

Agree.

R-
It's bad enough that people can change their names, let's not create unnecessary complexity and add to the confusion.

Ok I will first review all the Pros and Cons and Then add some more ideas to refine this. I will try to remain unbiased so the person reading this makes their own conclusion. At the end I will give my opinion

PROS:

• Festive nicknames for holidays in torn
• being able to add funny/quirky nicknames and such
• Maybe able to add an ENTIRE new line of advertising (I will put this as a Con as well as this might ruin nicknames in general)
• Having nicknames might make it easier for people to say your name
• Giving Points a newer value and adding upon their previous value

Thats pretty much it for Pros, now Cons.

CONS:

• Scammers would have an opportunity to impersantiate top people, making it easy to scam millions off unaware newer players
• If there is no limit to how big the nickname is then it would make it easy for people to spam in their nickname
• There might be a lot of spammers who advertise in their nickname
• makes it harder to track people if their nickname covers up their username
• 48 hour nickname means that if someone wants to keep a nickname they'd have to keep making their nickname and having to spend countless points
• People in Global, trade, and personal chats, would have a hard time knowing who is who if two people had the same nickname
• some others that I havent thought of yet

Over all, if the nickname is stuck at 48 hour captivity and there is no way to change it in those 48 hours, what would you do if someone in global got the same one? So you have to add maybe a nickname for 48 hours that you can take down before those 48 hours are over if need be. There needs to be a limit as well to the length of the nickname, otherwise there would be spammers in global and trade. It would be hard to track you if your name got covered up in chat, so you'd have to tell people what your username is, and that would be very repetitive and defeat the purpose of a nickname. Also what if you liked your nickname and had to keep adding it every 2 days, that would be super time consuming and not worth the points, so you'd have to add a week to the nickname, that you can still take down. What if 2 people had the same nickname, it would be impossible to know who is who unless you click on their profile and that would not be fun. There should be a system to not allow multiple same usernames



Overall Id say, I would not like to see this implanted, there are too many Cons and needs lots of refinement, although if nicknames stayed only in faction and Company chat...I might say yes, but there would have to be MANY refinements still.

So overall, R-, thanks but no thanks