Name length

[Aracknight]

Not sure if already asked, but is there any way we can extend the character name limit to more than 20?  Maybe to 25ish? Or would that fracture reality as we know it?

[Psyonico]

Having worked with enough databases, I suspect this is a tricky thing to implement.

 

i mean yeah, it’s 1 command that you run to increase the character limit allowed in a field, HOWEVER you generally don’t do that sort of manipulation on a live table due to the risk of data loss.

 

 The “proper” way I’ve seen it done is a little more complex… basically you create a new table that has all the same columns as the old table, but with whatever changes you want to make.  You then copy the data over into that new table.  Finally you change any reference to the old table to point to the new table.  Now that last step is a lot of work, like comb through every line of code level of work.

 

 I’d love to see characters name limits increased, as well as other limitations in names changed (like allowing more than 1 special character).  But I’d rather have whatever else the devs would have to put on hold to make that change more.

[TheMoneyMaker]

5 hours ago, Psyonico said:

I’d love to see characters name limits increased, as well as other limitations in names changed (like allowing more than 1 special character).  But I’d rather have whatever else the devs would have to put on hold to make that change more.

wouldn't you have to know whatever else the devs are working on to be certain you'd rather have that than see them work on changes to name length and format?

[Rudra]

Be careful. @TheMoneyMaker is setting up calling you a developer without any justification whatsoever as well.

[Psyonico]

I could potentially know if I was a member of the closed beta server (which, btw, I am not).  But the reason I made that statement is simple: I’ve played this game for 6 years as HC (and at least 5 on live) and I’ve made a *lot* of characters in that time.  I simply haven’t needed 21+ characters in a name very often, and I’ve always been able to come up with a satisfactory replacement name when I have.

 

Furthermore: like I said, you’d want to comb through each line of code.  I don’t know how many lines of code there are in this game, but I can safely bet that answer is “enough that it would take a long time.”

 

Also, just some background on me: I dabbled in programming in high school, but am not a programmer.  I taught myself SQL at my last job landed me a position as a business analyst.  That’s where my knowledge of DBs comes from.  I certainly don’t have the knowledge to be able to program a game.

[arcane]

Yes vote if it’s reasonably doable.