> 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?
Ok by me to allow numbers. > 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. Well, could make sense too, yes. > 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). Unless I'm mistaking, there is no 1.x => 2.0 migration script for players, meaning people will have to restart their character. So name collision issues shouldn't matter. Nicolas -- http://nicolas.weeger.org [Mon p'tit coin du web]
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