Namechange

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 7:32 pm

Changed my name from Seven Force.

Just thought I'd mention that.

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 7:38 pm

Two obvious questions:

Why?

How?

Other than that nice to meet you CIT!

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 7:50 pm

Super Laydock wrote:Why?

I had this thought, that it would be pretty cool if every user on shmups used their 3-letter score name as a nick.

Super Laydock wrote:How?

I asked Ghegs.

Post by **Ghegs** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 7:57 pm

I sure hope everybody will not want to change their nick - it would be terribly messy and boring if there were only 3-character nicks.

Not to mention the confusion it creates, since the nick "Seven Force" will still be around (if somebody has quoted you before, for example), plus all the trader feedback you've received will still read "Seven Force +1".

So yeah, it's not really recommended.

Ord · Post by **Ord** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:37 pm

My forum name is my surname and high score name. Pretty dull eh?

ArrogantBastard · Post by **ArrogantBastard** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 12:14 am

Would it be alright with you if I requested a nick change from ArrogantBastard to RAR, Ghegs? I'm kind of tired of using ArrogantBastard; it seems so juvenile...

Edit: On a second thought... Nah, let's leave my forum name that way. Everyone knows me by this nick, so I'd rather not create more confusion.

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 12:44 am

I think at least one other person has changed his nick, but that only involved appending a dash and his three-letter high score tag onto the end...

Triple Lei · Post by **Triple Lei** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 1:09 am

This is worse than Rob's name change at TNL!

Still, I like the idea of showing our three-letter score somewhere. Kinda like how some people get this nifty "banned" subtitle under their name, only without the ban...

PlasmaDancer · Post by **PlasmaDancer** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 1:24 am

Here seems to a good place to mention that I'm considering changing my hi-score name from the current 'JON', to some kind of three-letter encapsulation of PlasmaDancer. But I don't know how, exactly.
PLD? PSM? PDR?

Any ideas?

ArrogantBastard · Post by **ArrogantBastard** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 2:39 am

Triple Lei wrote:This is worse than Rob's name change at TNL!

Still, I like the idea of showing our three-letter score somewhere. Kinda like how some people get this nifty "banned" subtitle under their name, only without the ban...

That would be a neat idea.

chtimi-CLA · Post by **chtimi-CLA** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 9:57 am

iatneH wrote:I think at least one other person has changed his nick, but that only involved appending a dash and his three-letter high score tag onto the end...

i added my score name CLA, since i've been using it forever in arcades and pinball. i kept chtimi to avoid confusion, it isn't a team like AIVA or cowboy

shiftace · Post by **shiftace** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 5:44 pm

Now I want to change my name to ASS.

...

Ok, not really.

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 7:25 pm

and then there are those of us that are almost completely defined by our screen name & avatar combo... *points to self*

FRO · Post by **FRO** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 10:27 pm

My nick is 3 letters because it was my high-school nickname (short for 'afro' - don't ask). I do use it for high scores in games, though. I'm known as MetalFRO on some other forums (mostly because some of those forums already have a 'FRO' user).

benstylus · Post by **benstylus** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 1:09 am

PlasmaDancer wrote:Here seems to a good place to mention that I'm considering changing my hi-score name from the current 'JON', to some kind of three-letter encapsulation of PlasmaDancer. But I don't know how, exactly.
PLD? PSM? PDR?

Any ideas?

Get the top 4 high scores.

PLA
SMA
DAN
CER

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:15 am

I'll be keeping mine as it is. I've been using it on any boards that I've joined for nearly four years now, and I like it. And no, it has nothing to do with that Megas XLR cartoon.

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:58 am

Triple Lei wrote:
Still, I like the idea of showing our three-letter score somewhere. Kinda like how some people get this nifty "banned" subtitle under their name, only without the ban...

The other boad I post on lets the users add subtitles underneath their usernames. Something like that would work well.

~Kid Icarus~ · Post by **~Kid Icarus~** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 1:58 pm

Acid King wrote:
Triple Lei wrote:
Still, I like the idea of showing our three-letter score somewhere. Kinda like how some people get this nifty "banned" subtitle under their name, only without the ban...
The other boad I post on lets the users add subtitles underneath their usernames. Something like that would work well.

This would be a cool feature. Any chance of it happening though?

PlasmaDancer · Post by **PlasmaDancer** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:06 pm

benstylus wrote:
Get the top 4 high scores.

PLA
SMA
DAN
CER

It's genius!

But perhaps managing to get one spot on the table should be my first priority, eh? Learn to walk before I run etc etc

Placing our score initials underneath our username would be a nice touch, though, I agree. With scores so much more important in this genre than most others, it makes sense for that to be part of our identity here, too.

Platypus[gEc] · Post by **Platypus[gEc]** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:29 pm

the [gEc] part is my score name, i was one step ahead all the time

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:20 pm

~Kid Icarus~ wrote:
Acid King wrote:
Triple Lei wrote:
Still, I like the idea of showing our three-letter score somewhere. Kinda like how some people get this nifty "banned" subtitle under their name, only without the ban...
The other boad I post on lets the users add subtitles underneath their usernames. Something like that would work well.
This would be a cool feature. Any chance of it happening though?

Who knows? I don't know how much work it'd be to add it. Any guess?

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:51 pm

IINM, the selectable custom title is not an available feature in phpBB and must be added through a mod, which does exist. The difficulty of implementing a mod should be low if it works on our board's phpBB version.