even in ariel, where socks and alternates are accepted and privacy is a key thing, the usernames of the actual journals being used are available on the taken list for those in game and not in game to see.
yes, i can go look at the community profile and hunt through to see if there's any names that stick out that i don't want to play with, but the taken list is there for a reason and it feels like the mods are more inclined to find pretty pretentious code that does not work well for games with more than a small handful of players than they are in making the page actually accessible and used for the purpose it was designed for. you know why most big games don't have coded lists like that? because with the amount of turnover and app cycles, it gets to be a huge pain in the ass to have to update it, and as shown with the joke name attempts that broke the last code, code like that is way easier to fuck up and break and need to be redone all over again.
i would suggest to the mods to lay off making it pretty and big icons and ooh la la and just have the canons, char names, USERNAMES, and houses (plus the link to preference page if they want) the preference page that's locked and where non-game players can't easily go to to see who plays what. so that leaves them scouring the community page to see if they recognize a name they hate, when it might not be that simple. i don't know of too many games, if any, that don't have the usernames easily available.
but if the mods want to do their own thing, that's their deal. they're just making things more complicated than they need to be and turning people off from wanting to play because of that fact. and this is where you reply 'good, we don't want whiny tittybabies that are so sensitive joinign the game'. sure, but you're good with whiny tittybabies that bitch about not having their username readily available because of wank.
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yes, i can go look at the community profile and hunt through to see if there's any names that stick out that i don't want to play with, but the taken list is there for a reason and it feels like the mods are more inclined to find pretty pretentious code that does not work well for games with more than a small handful of players than they are in making the page actually accessible and used for the purpose it was designed for. you know why most big games don't have coded lists like that? because with the amount of turnover and app cycles, it gets to be a huge pain in the ass to have to update it, and as shown with the joke name attempts that broke the last code, code like that is way easier to fuck up and break and need to be redone all over again.
i would suggest to the mods to lay off making it pretty and big icons and ooh la la and just have the canons, char names, USERNAMES, and houses (plus the link to preference page if they want) the preference page that's locked and where non-game players can't easily go to to see who plays what. so that leaves them scouring the community page to see if they recognize a name they hate, when it might not be that simple. i don't know of too many games, if any, that don't have the usernames easily available.
but if the mods want to do their own thing, that's their deal. they're just making things more complicated than they need to be and turning people off from wanting to play because of that fact. and this is where you reply 'good, we don't want whiny tittybabies that are so sensitive joinign the game'. sure, but you're good with whiny tittybabies that bitch about not having their username readily available because of wank.