Color Coded Playername

(Senyin) #21

I don’t mind colored names at all for it helps me to see in less then a split of a split second
who is in front/next/up/down/under ect me, which I like to know.

  • cyan and grey is such a pretty combo :tongue:
(Spaiker) #22

Orange/black :smiley:

(murka) #23

pink/white=win.
No really, a good player only has a simple nich with 2 colors max. If i spot someone with an obfuscated name, i know he sux and will prob ragequit when i kill him.

(Spaiker) #24

Haha :smiley:
So the serverlist is going to get color coded names as well? Because we (Pink Taco Bar) have a distinct colour we used to add :wink:

(SockDog) #25

Like the idea of a client side strip along with other “anti-griefing” controls. Toggle coloured or mono colour. Along with using player nicks or something like “Player_1”, “Player_2”.

I do want colours though, I think it’s nice to get a distinguished flash in people’s names.

(H4rdc0re) #26

White name skilled player and a cool kid admin FTW:cool:

(Auzner) #27

If a game you’re playing has voice chat and you see it: read it out character by character rather than interpreting it the way they want you to. It usually annoys them or you confirm they’re too stupid to even realize you’re referring to them. When they argue about how you’re labeling them that’s when you call them an idiot for using non-latin characters as an attempt to “stylize” their name. Do you ever hand in a term paper using 20-30 different fonts throughout the body? Do you ever see an instruction manual with random casing as if it were a ransom note? Would you want books to be written with Cyrillic, Arabic, and Greek characters that happen to look like latin ones? Without any rules you can’t call it a language. They’re supposed to be aliases, not poems, lyrics, banners, posters, fliers, abstract art. This use of unicode is like its own online cultural movement. But rather than proving artistic merit it usually just gathers uneducated people with poor taste. The reasons behind this make it sound glorified by referring to it as “cultural movement”. It’s more like idiots discover technology and interpret it as they please. Oh you’re using those characters? Well you’re probably a kid or manchild and will probably throw a tantrum and leave eventually. Seriously, in my experience, people with those type of names usually suck at games. They’re doing it to grab the attention of other people who find it impressive but haven’t discovered it. “Oh wow you’re name is all customized and different. I want to do that!” Then there’s a list of unreadable **** going on when everyone does it. Then we’re back to calling them a color.

(madoule) #28

hit me with colors AND"windings". in all honesty, i think these options/possibilities are even more valid in brink than anytime. when brink’s all about customization, so should be the name tags.

it is far fetched to call it any sort of art, but to me this is a total valid way of expressing yourself. even if the name tag only depicts one’s lack of life. :penguin:

(DonkeyDong) #29

[QUOTE=jazevec;246950]I’ll say this again:

Give me an ability to override color coded playernames on client side. I want to be able to turn all your rainbow names into plain grey or white. Bonus points if there’s a way to strip silly characters which act as decorations.[/QUOTE]

Bump, really annoying having stupid name coloring in steam friends list. REALLY REALLY. I had friends on my list but now they’re lost forever because I won’t go looking for them. (slightly dramatic)

And thanks for asking ‘What is a psi-tapir’. Learned my lesson for the day!

(Spaiker) #30

It’s like Senyin says, only 2 basic colours, that would be best!

(Crytiqal) #31

If you want a rainbow name, use white please.
It has all the colors in the world :wink:

(brbrbr) #32

[QUOTE=Crytiqal;247074]If you want a rainbow name, use white please.
It has all the colors in the world ;)[/QUOTE]

int THAT case, Gray color it better describe/reflect it/that way.
note: it there any way to play Brink WITHOUT names[with or without colors] ingame ?

(Spaiker) #33

There will be a leaderboard per match? So I don’t think so? :confused:

(Apples) #34

I want to be able to give retina cancer to my enemies, so yay for color! oh and some special stuffs like arrows, capslock sign etc ala sof2 would be great too, its better to customise clan name :wink:

And haters gonna hate eventually, but who gives a flying duck nowaday?

Peace

(jazevec) #35

This is briliant. It makes me want buy a microphone. (Does anyone know if there are better-than-crap microphones that are not a part of a headset ? I already own good headphones and this holds me back.) This should be especially effective because I’m not a native english speaker.

When they argue about how you’re labeling them that’s when you call them an idiot for using non-latin characters as an attempt to “stylize” their name.

I wouldn’t bother saving the world in this case. Reading it out should be annoying enough.

While I’m in favor of having Unicode player names in Brink (fits with the multinational theme), I think it would be best to restrict each individual name to one subset of unicode. At the very least some crude limitations, like no chinese+ASCII, japanese+ASCII, korean+ASCII… This verification would only need to be done once, at registration.

Do you ever see an instruction manual with random casing as if it were a ransom note? Would you want books to be written with Cyrillic, Arabic, and Greek characters that happen to look like latin ones? Without any rules you can’t call it a language. They’re supposed to be aliases, not poems, lyrics, banners, posters, fliers, abstract art. This use of unicode is like its own online cultural movement. But rather than proving artistic merit it usually just gathers uneducated people with poor taste.

Admittedly, I see small business (online shops) that use this kind of decoration in their page title. Yuck.

It would be nice to have name completely separate from decorations (like HTML and CSS), and a fairly strict regular expression for name. For example alphanumeric only, not even shift-number characters. So that people who don’t like this stuff can turn it off. With Brink’s focus on fashion this wouldn’t be a big sacrifice. Keeping form separate from content is just good hygiene.

(Senyin) #36

Haha, if I would hear such a thing on a server I would die laughing
(and know it’s probably you :))

(light_sh4v0r) #37

I have expensive headphones too and I use a desktop microphone. I paid about €3,- for it and it’s been going strong for over 3 years already, never heard anyone complain about sound quality either. It’s not for studio recording though :wink:

(Nail) #38

“(Does anyone know if there are better-than-crap microphones that are not a part of a headset ? I already own good headphones and this holds me back.) This should be especially effective because I’m not a native english speaker.”

http://www.bluemic.com/desktop/

(light_sh4v0r) #39

lol, I guess that’s an alternative if you really want people to hear your neighbours’ stomach groan in crisp quality :tongue:
In all seriousness though, most cheap microphones sound good enough for gaming. Whenever someone has a bad mic it’s always on a cheap headset, I’ve never heard anyone complain about deskmics. I always put it in front of my keyboard, with the keyboard on the wire.

(Nail) #40

around a $100, not bad for mic, preamp and A/D