Username Changes

[justin_ator]

Originally Posted by Velocity

Correct, though that was for effect but used some css to pull off the affect.

As it stands currently, changing usernames is extremely difficult because the majority of the site long ago used usernames are the key and not user ids. Due to this, one would have to find where all the references to usernames throughout the site are, change them all over to userids, update all the usernames in the database to user userids as well, and then maybe be able to change them without breaking something that was overlooked.

This is a non-issue if display names are implemented forum-wide and in-game, as a user ID and a username are still unique to a person. You wouldn't be changing that username, you'd be changing a "display name" which is much like your CSS play for your image. Just takes a little more back-end and some reworking on site features so that they pull Display Names instead of Usernames