On Tuesday 13 March 2007 17:32, Tim Ansell wrote: > > <llnz> we should have a "short name" for the bit after the @ in player > > login names so it can be set to "tp" or "demo1" or whatever > > <llnz> with the longer name for the human players > > > > So a new field (for example 'sname') to hold the short name used as the > > game identifier in the username. > > I think it's better the other way around. Have the default name to be a > "short name" and have a new optional parameter which is the long name. > > This does mean that short names must be unique (when registered to the > metaserver).
Because of length restrictions (particularly on dns-sd txt records), the short name should be a parameter to leave more space for other fields, and the long name the service name. Names (either short or long) shouldn't have to be unique, once tpserver-cpp actually generates and remembers it's key... Only the short name needs to be unique on a server. > Tim Ansell Later Lee
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