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Post Post #0 (ISO) » Sun Feb 08, 2015 12:34 pm

Post by elusive »

Hi,

Is it possible to change a user account name?

I didn't see anything in the FAQ about this. I don't want an alt, just want to change the user name for this one if possible.
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Post Post #1 (ISO) » Sun Feb 08, 2015 12:46 pm

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No. You'll have to make an alt if you want a different username.
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Post Post #2 (ISO) » Mon Feb 09, 2015 12:07 pm

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he says, speaking from experience
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Post Post #3 (ISO) » Sat Feb 14, 2015 6:55 am

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But I like your name! The avatar is pretty neat, too. It looks like something that a financial services company or investment bank would have as a logo.
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Post Post #4 (ISO) » Wed Mar 11, 2015 1:54 pm

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Hmm...it takes me a few tries to settle into the "feels just right" mode so meh. I wonder how ff.net does it, you can change your user name any time.
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Post Post #5 (ISO) » Wed Mar 11, 2015 8:15 pm

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It's not a matter of lacking the technical ability. It just makes old games too confusing to follow if players have had their name changed.
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Post Post #6 (ISO) » Wed Mar 11, 2015 8:25 pm

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would be fun to be able to voluntarily connect posting histories between accounts though so as to simultaneously search a player's posts on multiple accounts

or something like that
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Post Post #7 (ISO) » Thu Mar 12, 2015 2:59 am

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But that's not the issue, Marquis. The problem comes when someone goes to read an old game full of posts by Johnny, but everyone's talking about and voting for Janey, with nary a Johnny to be found.
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Post Post #8 (ISO) » Thu Mar 12, 2015 8:41 am

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i know; i'm not talking about changing the name. i'm talking about making it easily possible to connect the posting histories only. you could have someone link that in their sig, but i'm still looking for a way to search all the posts on multiple accounts across multiple threads
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Post Post #9 (ISO) » Thu Mar 12, 2015 10:42 pm

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That's kind of what I was thinking too, how to make it easy (if a person wants obviously) to make their main\former main and alt posts searchable in one place.
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Post Post #10 (ISO) » Thu Mar 12, 2015 11:35 pm

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i mean i use my friend function to keep track of my alts and hydras so if anything could be done similarly but also let you search all posts of members in a certain group you dictate or something like that it would def make searchlife easier : ]
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Post Post #11 (ISO) » Fri Mar 13, 2015 1:33 pm

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In post 7, saulres wrote:But that's not the issue, Marquis. The problem comes when someone goes to read an old game full of posts by Johnny, but everyone's talking about and voting for Janey, with nary a Johnny to be found.


I'm not sure how many games are run on here, but a work around might be too have a public list of name changes (vs. alts which are privateish).
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Post Post #12 (ISO) » Fri Mar 13, 2015 3:39 pm

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In post 11, elusive wrote:a work around might be too have a public list of name changes

http://wiki.mafiascum.net ?
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Post Post #13 (ISO) » Sat Mar 14, 2015 7:10 am

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In post 4, elusive wrote:Hmm...it takes me a few tries to settle into the "feels just right" mode so meh. I wonder how ff.net does it, you can change your user name any time.


FF.net ties your login to your email address and your user id. The username can be changed there because it isn't used to log in.
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Post Post #14 (ISO) » Sat Mar 14, 2015 11:11 pm

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In post 13, tn5421 wrote:
In post 4, elusive wrote:Hmm...it takes me a few tries to settle into the "feels just right" mode so meh. I wonder how ff.net does it, you can change your user name any time.


FF.net ties your login to your email address and your user id. The username can be changed there because it isn't used to log in.


This has absolutely nothing to do with it. The forum has the technology built in to allow name changes. In rare cases's we've even allowed/forced them. It just makes old games harder to follow.
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Post Post #15 (ISO) » Sun Mar 15, 2015 2:27 am

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Yes, I follow actually this site has a lot of old games so I can see where it would be confusing.
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Post Post #16 (ISO) » Sun Mar 22, 2015 12:51 pm

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In post 14, chamber wrote:
In post 13, tn5421 wrote:
In post 4, elusive wrote:Hmm...it takes me a few tries to settle into the "feels just right" mode so meh. I wonder how ff.net does it, you can change your user name any time.


FF.net ties your login to your email address and your user id. The username can be changed there because it isn't used to log in.


This has absolutely nothing to do with it. The forum has the technology built in to allow name changes. In rare cases's we've even allowed/forced them. It just makes old games harder to follow.


My apologies then. Perhaps something can be done on a user's profile or postbit that shows their old username/usernames?
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Post Post #17 (ISO) » Sun Mar 22, 2015 12:52 pm

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or people could just make an alt?
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