Community Names

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Stefan

The community names greatly simpify the account creation and player identifcation system. It makes it possible to have people without any account (guests), players with accounts identified by emails and creation of namesless (Graal#) accounts, and still provides compatibility with the guilds system and login for forums and wiki. It's the base for the guest system (login without subscribing) and is also important for the iphone players which are identified by device id instead of account name.

Please stay on topic and make suggestions for improving the community name support.

There is absolutely no reasonable benefit that is derived from using community names. The only possible thing I can see is that community names make it so trials don't use it up all "good" account names. Hooray!

That small benefit doesn't even come close to making up for the inconveniences and frustrations they cause. Account names worked fine.

Listen to the players, the developers, even the global staff. None of them like community names. Maybe they're on to something.