Changing lobby pseudonym

[Yekaterina]

Another way to solve identification problem: give everyone an ID number and a public name which can be changed. You can recognise everyone by their ID but they have the  freedom to identify themselves as whatever.

I can change the name and profile photo as I wish but the ID cannot change, nor the QR code.

[rossenburg]

9 hours ago, Sevda said:

Another way to solve identification problem: give everyone an ID number and a public name which can be changed. You can recognise everyone by their ID but they have the  freedom to identify themselves as whatever.

I can change the name and profile photo as I wish but the ID cannot change, nor the QR code.

this can be introduced in the game, changing name and maintain ID. I think i did this in a dummy mod i was working on. Allowing users to change names is easier to integrate but this can also increase impersonation. I have a mod that works fine for this feature; but eg.- i can my name to your name "Sevda" whiles you were offline - It will be successful and my name will show Sevda in the lobby. When the real Sevda tries to login with the same name he will get a message saying "user already logged in". I dont know how this can help reduce smurfing but if somehow it does, then i guess there should be limit. Social media is completely different from the game , other RTS games allows u to rename ofc but they have a way to prevent players from abusing the rename feature - they are encouraged to buy an asset like a rename card or something or there's a time limit. I guess limitation should do if its ever considered to be added @Sevda 

 

Case where you try to change name to an already logged in player:

 

When the player is offline, you can rename to their name ( but cant take their ratings data since playerId renames unchanged). Maybe there can be a workaround to prevent people to changing to an already existing names regardless of either they online or not

Edited August 19, 2022 by rossenburg

[rossenburg]

7 minutes ago, go2die said:

@rossenburgyou mean that single command which anyone can raise and was already discussed in other topics? .-) Funny.. That is real achievement of big developer.

Engine.LobbySetNick("new_name")`

Further you already know with such change you will not be authetificated and able to play hosted games ... so I would expect you offer littlle more then theorethical bla bla.. 

that wasn't my point. I'm trying to let @Sevda know how things will look like incase there is an agreement on a rename feature.

 

Edited August 19, 2022 by rossenburg

[rossenburg]

11 minutes ago, go2die said:

Further you already know with such change you will not be authetificated and able to play hosted games ... so I would expect you offer littlle more then theorethical bla bla.. 

this isn't what i mean. Aside that when your id is maintained you can host a game. Your changed name only displays in lobby. I used this to demonstrate how things will work i did not say is the best way to implement it. Also, There is a way to change name permanently - which isnt the point here, he made a suggestion and wanted to let him know how things will look 

Edited August 19, 2022 by rossenburg

[rossenburg]

18 minutes ago, go2die said:

If you want to support multi-names it is clear you have to keep some meta-login (or unique login per user) either generated random ui, or keep original one, to avoid impersonation ... no other solution exist 

what makes you think "no other solution exist" ?  Well, since you seem to comment like you know everything and suppressing the point im trying to make,  i will keep my solution to myself  

Edited August 19, 2022 by rossenburg

[Yekaterina]

@rossenburg can you display the player ID under the player name? This will allow us to spot impostors. When someone talks, it should appear like this:

<SEVDA ID=271828183> Hi

[Yekaterina]

@go2die's autoban feature can ban ID instead of name. For imposters, they can rename themselves to Sevda but their ID will give them away.

[Yekaterina]

22 minutes ago, rossenburg said:

There is a way to change name permanently

How? Please show me

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