So I got paired up against Rosslessness (battle scarred veteran player) … but was initially very confused when I went to join the game we were assigned to because “Hulk” was already playing - why the heck am I already in the game?!?
Turns out that Rosslessness signed up using the alias “Hulk” (with same avatar I do) whereas my real name (which I pretty much always play under) is “HULK” - notice the difference???
Took me a while to figure it out … but once I did, it was a big LOL - totally hilarious Ross!!!
In hindsight, I should have used the alias ROSSLESSNESS which would have really confused everyone … but I just signed up as HULK … check out the screenshot below.
I’m filing as a Bug Report because I’d recommend that @JayKyburz add a simple check of case sensitivity of the name/alias and disallow duplicates as happened here - could be very confusing to other players …plus the Triton Codex FAQ says:
"Selecting a name at the start of the game designed to make it difficult to distinguish you from another player is bad form and can also result in account closure."
On a similar topic, I wondered what people thought about disclosing to the other players when people are using an alias to their “real” name during the game instead of just at the end. Just a little symbol to say that this player is using an alter-ego. I like the option of using aliases but I like to know who is using their real name too.
As I said, it was no big deal to me personally and generated a good laugh.
How difficult would it be to add a check when you join the game using an alias to simply run a case-insensitive check against existing REAL name and reject the proposed name if a match? Sure, one can play tricks and do stuff like Hulk versus HuIk (lower case “l” versus upper case “I”) or ZERO vs. ZER0 - there’s an endless number of those situations that I’m not advocating you try to deal with - just the simple case of a complete case-insensitive match.
BTW, I kinda like the suggestion from @PandaBear - maybe add an “*” to the displayed name if they are playing under an alias … even in extra anon.