KMST 1.2.482 Zero

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This would cause issues regardless. the only thing that would limit this is forcing a prefix before the name which would limit you in character choice because of the 12 character naming system. Making the class let alone coding the prefix Alpha/Beta into the games would cause mor problems than it's worth.

The pets are items. There are more process running off of character name than off of your pets. Char names are no where near as cosmetic as they seem, everything else? Pretty cosmetic.

"IDK why you keep brigging a database issue in this as if it'd be a gamebreaking or costy at all. They would, almost literally, have to copy/paste the same block of code used for naming pets and stick in Beta's code, while making Alpha's IGN work for all purposes required as they do in a normal character. Beta's ign would be just a tittle, only give hers a different color to make obvious which one is the main IGN."

I don't code all that much but this would cause issues with adding to parties and expeditions, party search, and lag since the main problem of lag in this game is more text-based than anything. The coding wouldn't simply just fit in and you have to add extra parameters so that it doesn't flip the pineapple out and even then testing on a side server you STILL have margin for error when it goes live.

Calling it a second IGN was definitely my mistake.

Let's define a character IGN as the name of the entinty which holds all the character-related information inside the database and serves as the keyfield for interaction between the character and the rest of the game processes. That's what makes it so hard to deal with an IGN.

Now lets say this name for Beta is nothing more than an aesthetic tittle which doesn't have any function in game, all the contrary to that of an IGN. No whispering, no adding to BL, no adding to parties, no name tag on items created in any way, just a tittle for the looks like with a pet, where its name doesn't hold any value in the processes that go behind to carry out its functions.

Anyway, I'm done with this. It's not like this is a must-add feature, I just don't get why peopel keep saying it would blow up the game.