Character limit

[Amidamaru]

i don't know why this hasn't happened yet and i see all these stupid reports in the forum, people are getting reported for having names that are to long. I felt like there was a common sense solution to this which is to just put a character limit on everyone names no matter how many point's they got, it would stop people from abusing and save the mod's the trouble of going through tons of stupid reports. Also saying we shouldn't have this because it would get rid of colored names is stupid. colored names aren't essential for this game, people with them always get killed n1 anyway.

[Rihfok]

I agree on this, but there are also other name abuse types, for example, one time a guy already on watch list advertised that another player was on watch list with his name (even though that guy is).
He made something like {Watch list} PlayerName is a known griefer and game-thrower!
A bit pathetic, but I didn't report him.

[Rihfok]

Thus I repeat, I agree with your idea.

[Rihfok]

And it won't take care of ALL of the name problems, it will improve a lot, but an occasional name abuse report will still be seen.

[cygx]

I have a better idea. Make a punishment for handing in reports about trolling. This solves everything, because it's clearly in the table of crimes that trolling is NOT an offense, so if the person reporting doesn't want to read through that first, he gets fucked. Makes one think twice before QQing to a mod.

1. The players who don't make long names don't have to suffer because of those who do
2. The mods are saved a lot of headaches
3. There is less bitching across the board

[Rihfok]

It doean't solve the fact that sometimes the whole graveyard will be one persons' name.

[cygx]

That doesn't need to be solved. Intelligent players remember roles. Players shouldn't be stripped of their ability to compensate for the lack of intelligence in others because this could happen.

[Arexjamin]

I remember someone on the forums DR stated that long names were reportable.

Jk, found the thread, right under this one.

https://www.sc2mafia.com/forum/showth...ely-Long-Names

[Rihfok]

I was referring to cygx's post.

[Archangel V]

If there was a character limit colored names wouldn't work, no need for character limit.

[FrostByte]

That doesn't need to be solved. Intelligent players remember roles. Players shouldn't be stripped of their ability to compensate for the lack of intelligence in others because this could happen.

When someone who has an excessively long name is killed, you can't see their role. How would being "an intelligent player" effect this whatsoever?

[Rihfok]

Well, you see his role when he dies, right?...

[FrostByte]

Well, you see his role when he dies, right?...

No, you don't, which is what I just fucking said.

[cygx]

When someone who has an excessively long name is killed, you can't see their role. How would being "an intelligent player" effect this whatsoever?

kevinpowers is that you?

[fred]

Placing a limit on the amount of characters that you could use in a name would remove the ability to create colored names. Colored names may have as many as 240 characters, for instance.

[Rihfok]

Well, another option (although it would be quite a lot of coding) would be to in general limit the characters in name, but the system could recognize colored names and let them through.

[creedkingsx]

Placing a limit on the amount of characters that you could use in a name would remove the ability to create colored names. Colored names may have as many as 240 characters, for instance.

Here is my question, after you input a colored name, how does the game recognize it? Like, whenever your name is inputted as you have talked, does the game, itself see this as a 240 character word, or does it see it as a 10 letter colored word?
If the latter, is there anyway to design the game to recognize, after being inputted, a 10 letter colored word as opposed to a 50 letter noncolored word?
Or make it so that, during the name setup, any name longer than 20 letters, colored or not, are deleted and forced with one of the automatic names, maybe?

[Dark.Revenant]

Several problems:
1. Can't even be implemented until the next patch because it is a fairly large chunk of code to even strip the color tags from a name.
2. Hurr durr my 30-char name might be "WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW" and yours might be "Our Lady Serice is the Savior!" Also there are some alt-codes that are significantly larger than 'W'.

[NettleS]

I agree on this, but there are also other name abuse types, for example, one time a guy already on watch list advertised that another player was on watch list with his name (even though that guy is).
He made something like {Watch list} PlayerName is a known griefer and game-thrower!
A bit pathetic, but I didn't report him.

Pretty sure that name is used as an example in the colored names explained thread that is stickied on these forums so i cannot see how it is reportable.

[creedkingsx]

Pretty sure that name is used as an example in the colored names explained thread that is stickied on these forums so i cannot see how it is reportable.

It is, besides anyone that falls for a name like that deserves to be banned themselves.
I used to hate it when Archangel would do that but it would say Moderator and everyone would listen to him believing he was an actual mod.

[kiranearitachi]

couldnt we just have a way by ui to click a name color and put a limit on them that way colored names are still able to be used while at the same time killing long name trolls

[fred]

When patch 1.5 comes about, I'm sure Rev will be hard at work in his SPARE TIME (not getting paid to do so mind you) to introduce new content and new fixes to all our problems. The problem is time and space. Go figure.