I don't like community names

[Umat]

Doesn't the accounts that has accountnames show the account name as communityname?

[Robin]

I don't understand Chris,

Why not just use community name? As long as you've got that you don't need the account name? Right?

[Skyld]

Originally Posted by Robin

I don't understand Chris,

Why not just use community name? As long as you've got that you don't need the account name? Right?

Generally speaking the community name is changeable. When you do not have a community name set yet, you are probably set to "GraalXXXXXX", but when the player picks a community name, that changes. The account name doesn't so it is a good way of reliably identifying the same player and so that the player does not lose their stats when setting their community name.

The problem is that the community name support is very lazy and they are not entirely supported by either the RC or client so occasionally the GraalXXXXXX account name leaks through. You can't do /openrights communityname because it is expecting an account name. Also it is habit for scripters to use player.account instead of player.communityname, for instance, with owner tags on scripts and such and that also causes confusion.

Whilst I understand the benefits of community names, they just complicate everything.

[Angel_Light]

Originally Posted by Skyld

Whilst I understand the benefits of community names, they just complicate everything.

What are the benefits?

[kia345]

Originally Posted by Robin

I don't understand Chris,

Why not just use community name? As long as you've got that you don't need the account name? Right?

Community-name isn't treated like an account name in every instance. I can't kick people from events or summon them based on their community-name (which is displayed), so I either have to ask for their Graal # and hope they play along, or go through the playerlist and find their name, where it does display the number. On top of that, they're a train wreck for guys with dyslexia.

Originally Posted by Robin

Would be easy if there was a lookupcommunityname(player.account) that would work regardless of whether the player was on-line or not.

A random series of numbers is way too annoying to cater to, I'd rather see it removed.

[salesman]

Originally Posted by Robin

I don't understand Chris,

Why not just use community name? As long as you've got that you don't need the account name? Right?

I've had player.communityname return null sometimes, so in order to use it you have to check for a null value as well...it's quite a pain.

EDIT:
One thing that is REALLY annoying to me is when you type /open Graal###### in RC, it echoes salesman loaded the attributes of <communitynamehere>. THEN, when you set the attributes it echoes salesman set the attributes of player Graal######

I may have mixed up the order, but my point is that it is very inconsistant. Says the community name in one instance and graal account in the other.