I don't want to be known as "rawrfishes" when playing PA... Will my uberent acc username have to be me in-game username? I hope not.
I'm curious about this too, cause somehow my uber account ended up being mega lame, thus why I'm using my original forum account. Mike
I also hope for this as my username right now is a old one which i accidentally typed in (tired to the level of death when i did this) so if the opportunity to get a proper username ingame arrives i think many would be happy.
Since you can get multiple copies from 1 kickstarter-pledge (which relates to 1 Uber-Account) it seems obvious to me that all we will get are keys to create PA-Accounts?! Well I dont care, my name is fine xD
A potential solution is to have an account name and a nickname, much like how Steam does it. The account name is static and is what's connected to your uber account, while the nickname you can change to your heart's content.
That is the way I hope in game user-names are implemented. I for one made my forum account separate from my steam account because I didnt know if it would use my steam user-name (which I no longer use) despite the fact that it would have been nice to have one less account had I linked it through steam. Ultimately it would be nice if I could play PA using steam (or without) using a changeable nickname system similar to steams.
I also hope we can have a system like steams'. I just don't think we need to have unique names in-game, we'll already have different colours as well, so their shouldn't be any confusion. And name collisions happen so rarely in actual servers anyway.
That's not MMO, guys. That's client-server and you may control server. So there is no (there should not be) such thing as global users database. Most probably each server/server cluster will have it's own database with some kind of authentication (as it was promised that PA (at least barkers' versions) would be DRM-free, AFAIK).
You raise some decent points but there are going to be official servers run by Uber entertainment as well as some meta game aspects like Galactic warfare as well. In any case it would be good to get some confirmation from Uber as to how usernames are going to be handled. If it is a freely alterable display name seperate from my account login name then I would be quite pleased. On an additional note I'm assuming there is going to have to be some way of tracking people on an account basis so that cheaters and trolls can be booted from official games, I just hope it isnt based on an immutable display name.
I think you might have misunderstood me. From what I gather so long as the server can handle it people could probably have their own GW running just like other servers as you described. What I was referencing there was that Uber will be running an official set of servers and I wanted to know how that would work. Neutrino has jumped in and set the record straight though so I am happy : D
Oh thank heavens. My name is suppose to be Cpt_Kill_Jack. But the uber forums dont like _'s so its cptkilljack.
