HalAngers Posted August 22, 2016 Share Posted August 22, 2016 Inworlds enables residents to pick a first name AND a surname.Why doesn't Second Life do this too? It would be a popular move? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syo Emerald Posted August 22, 2016 Share Posted August 22, 2016 HalAngers wrote: Inworlds enables residents to pick a first name AND a surname. Why doesn't Second Life do this too? It would be a popular move? You may not be aware of this, but until late 2010 every account picked a first name and a last name. I joined in September 2010, shortly before they removed that nameing system. My first name is Syo, my surname is Emerald. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Bulloch Posted August 22, 2016 Share Posted August 22, 2016 HalAngers wrote: Inworlds enables residents to pick a first name AND a surname. Why doesn't Second Life do this too? It would be a popular move? As Syo pointed out, SL did offer that abilllty, but withdrew it for one reason or another. Now anyone who signs up gets a surname of "Resident". It is a popular argument ("SL should bring it back!"), but I (and others) don't see that happening soon. I signed up when it was offered., hence Bulloch is my surname. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theresa Tennyson Posted August 22, 2016 Share Posted August 22, 2016 HalAngers wrote: Inworlds enables residents to pick a first name AND a surname. Why doesn't Second Life do this too? It would be a popular move? Second Life last names are actually only a numerical value that is looked up on a database table - the actual word isn't anywhere in your avatar information and there's apparently no good place to put it. For instance, my "last name" is actually 10910, which corresponds to "Tennyson" on the database. Custom last names for an ordinary user were never an option after the very earliest days of Second Life because it would make the database very unwieldy. Either Inworldz uses a different file format or they aren't concerned about the size of the last name database at this point in their development. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bree Giffen Posted August 22, 2016 Share Posted August 22, 2016 I think adding last names has been requested and denied several times over the years. We do have display names though. Some people set their viewer to see display names only but others want to see original names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peony Sweetwater Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 I agree that it would be a popular move, but if you do a forum search on this topic, you'll find a few discussions that make it sound unlikely if not impossible to happen. At this stage, the best you can do is sign up as "FirstnameSurname" and then set your display name to set it out properly with the space and any other punctuation. Edited to add: It is a real pity - I loved going 'round the grid and discovering my "sibling" Sweetwaters...made a few great friendships that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whirly Fizzle Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 You can still create new accounts with a custom surname - but it's pretty expensive. http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Custom_Name_Program Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teagan Tobias Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 The “space” is an ASCII character just exactly like every other ASCII character. It would have taken very little coding to say in the sign up, one space allowed, not the first character and not the last character. Its still just one string of ASCII characters, just like the new sign up is, just one word, but it would look like first and last names and be used the same too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhonda Huntress Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Teagan Tobias wrote: It would have taken very little coding Sorry to pick on you but I love that phrase. You would be amazed at how convoluted some of the simplest changes can be. Unless I had intimate knowledge of every place a space is parsed in the code, I would never make that assumption again. 32 aka 20 aka 00100000 is much more than just an unsigned char in a string. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Deakins Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 001000000? What does 128 (dec) have to do with it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freya Mokusei Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Rhonda Huntress wrote: 00100000 Phil Deakins wrote: 001000000 I've got my eye on you two. :matte-motes-evil-invert: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhonda Huntress Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Phil Deakins wrote: 001000000? What does 128 (dec) have to do with it? You seem to have performed a shift left there. Plus one of your quads has 5 digits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulpinus Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Coding issues aside (and yeah, it's frightening how changing one little thing somewhere can have ramifications in places you had forgotten even existed)... The worst thing LL did is enforce the "Resident" surname. My main account has a proper surname, but I really don't mind just having a username on my younger alts like this one. It's workable if not ideal. What I do mind is having that ridiculous "Resident" tag added to the end of it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Deakins Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Oops :matte-motes-bashful-cute: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avaraia Aljon Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 they need to bring the old name system back AND give people the option to name change, even if its for a small L$ fee. im tired of "Avaraia Aljon". nobodys called me by that name in 4 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Deakins Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 They DO give you the option to change names. What makes you think they don't? And it doesn't cost you anything. Simply create a new account. It's too easy. I'm surprised that you never realised it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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