Nicolas Weeger wrote: > Hello. > >> One thing I did think of might be DM access - maybe the dm_file should >> use account name instead of/in addition to character name? >> >> It strikes me that if you are going to trust a player with dm access, you >> probably don't really care what character they are playing. > > Yes, makes sense.
Looking at the code, something vaguely related here is character naming standards. Right now, character names are limited to letters and - or _, and the - or _ can not be the first letter. Spaces and numbers are not allowed. I can certainly understand spaces, as on unixlike systems, spaces in file names are a pain to deal with. But not sure why restrictions on numbers (like the - or _, I could perhaps see why we wouldn't want a character to start with number. But why shouldn't Mark99 be allowed? The other oddity (IMO) is that names are case sensitive. Thus, Mark and mark are 2 different characters. That to me isn't great. If I was adventuring with a person, I might remember their name, but probably wouldn't remember the details on its capitalization - it could be odd to find out the 'dave' I'm not adventuring with is not the same player as the 'Dave' I adventure with last week. So my suggestions on this: - Allow numbers in names - just the name can not start with a number. - Going forward, names should be unique in a case insensitive manner. The player can still choose variations on capitalization, you just can't have a 'mark' and 'Mark'. To handle that last one, simplest thing is to just store all character related files in a lower case version of the name (so Mark would be stored as mark/mark.pl for example). That's easy to do and solves the problem. The thing that is harder to solve is existing player files. Writing a script to rename them is straightforward. The hard part is dealing with any names that conflict (eg, server has existing Mark and mark). > > > Nicolas > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > crossfire mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
