[Discuss] Capitalization

[John P. Murphy]

On Mar 13, 2008, at 11:20 AM, Tom Vogt wrote:

> Talita CS schrieb:
>> Ok, we *might* not want these people in the game, but I would rather
>> think that after a few months they get the spirit and regret the
>> decision. Some might be willing to delete and make a new account,  
>> some
>> won't. And where does it leaves us, players that are bothered  
>> daily by
>> the messages of brian or Orange?
>>
>
> So, what _is_ the solution? I tell you one thing up front, it's not
> making name change a permanent feature. I already have a long list in
> mind about how people would abuse that, and some already did (they had
> perfectly good names and just didn't like them anymore).

The ultimate solution is to encourage people with those names to  
delete the characters and start over.  But for characters with  
incorrect capitalization, that just seems too extreme.  People will  
continue to play those characters rather than lose their progress and  
another 100 family gold to start a new one.

The mechanism I suggested cannot possibly be abused: you click a  
button to turn (brian, BRIAN, or BRian) into Brian.  Clicking that  
button again does nothing.  Furthermore, if the option is available,  
then we *know* that anyone who has failed to do it is just being  
stubborn/dumb instead of having made an honest mistake, and we can  
deal with them accordingly.

John