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johhannejohhanne Member Posts: 41 Arc User
edited June 2012 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Hi,

I used to like that your forum name was the same as your @handle - it meant I could see someone post an interesting comment on the forum and chat to them in game. It meant if I saw someone speaking about a foundry mission I could easily find it and check it out and other missions by that author....

I feel that this has been lost - is there anyway to go back to linking your forum names to your @handles? I feel as the community is fragmented without it!

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  • captainbmoneycaptainbmoney Member Posts: 1,323 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    I feel we should have the Oppertunity to change our @Handles now... I've been wanting to for a while. @DecadeComplete.
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  • johhannejohhanne Member Posts: 41 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    You see that's just it DecadeComplete - I've seen your handle around the forums, I kind of feel connected as part of the same community - this new name of yours I don't know...... don't feel the same sense of community........

    Oh I'm sure I'll learn it - but not to the same extent that was possible...
  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    I still haven't figured out how I managed to keep mine...
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  • tenkaritenkari Member Posts: 2,906 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    daveyny wrote: »
    I still haven't figured out how I managed to keep mine...


    I think those that linked accounts before the forced merger got to keep their handles.

    I know i kept mine and i linked mine several months ago.


    Edit: Or at least had a better chance at it if they set up the forum handle for their PW account to have the same one as their Cryptic account.
  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    That wasn't it in my case...

    I didn't do anything to change my account till we were forced too last week.

    And I've never had a PWI account till now.

    That may be the reason for me, though I'm not positive about that.
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  • bejaymacbejaymac Member Posts: 448 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    You've got your cryptic @handle in game for the time being, but don't be to surprised if that changes in the next couple of months.
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  • januhulljanuhull Member Posts: 154 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    When you made your PWE account, you were given the opportunity to set a display name separate from the log in name. That's how I kept mine. It wasn't too well hidden, I had linked my accounts successfully the weekend before PWE said anything about it and still managed to keep my old handle.
  • creamyzombiecreamyzombie Member Posts: 148 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    See, I worry. I haven't linking my account yet, but I set up a PWE account a while ago... I hear it'll automatically search my emails and link them.

    Though, strangely... I think I like this user name better.
  • poisonpoison Member Posts: 255 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    daveyny wrote: »
    That wasn't it in my case...

    I didn't do anything to change my account till we were forced too last week.

    And I've never had a PWI account till now.

    That may be the reason for me, though I'm not positive about that.

    That's because they reserved your @name for you. According to Branflakes, a while back they went and set up everyone's @name with a PWE account UNLESS A) You were one of those people that chose the same login and display name, or B) Someone else already had your login OR display name.
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  • tacofangstacofangs Member Posts: 2,951 Cryptic Developer
    edited June 2012
    In order to link accounts, you will have to have a PW account.

    Many (most) people, take their usual @handle/forum name/current login, and use that as their new PW name/login as well.

    The problem is that since PW doesn't let you set your display name (what we actually see in the forum) to be the same as your login name (for security I assume), if you make a PW account using your old Cryptic login, you've now locked yourself out of using that name as your display name.


    Instead, if you haven't linked yet, when you go to set up your PW account, make your account name something different than what you've been using. Then, set your DISPLAY NAME to your old Cryptic account name/@handle/forum name, then link.

    That should preserve your forum name.

    Hope that's helpful. Sorry to those that screwed up (myself included)
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  • meurikmeurik Member Posts: 856 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    tacofangs wrote: »
    In order to link accounts, you will have to have a PW account.

    Many (most) people, take their usual @handle/forum name/current login, and use that as their new PW name/login as well.

    The problem is that since PW doesn't let you set your display name (what we actually see in the forum) to be the same as your login name (for security I assume), if you make a PW account using your old Cryptic login, you've now locked yourself out of using that name as your display name.


    Instead, if you haven't linked yet, when you go to set up your PW account, make your account name something different than what you've been using. Then, set your DISPLAY NAME to your old Cryptic account name/@handle/forum name, then link.

    That should preserve your forum name.

    Hope that's helpful. Sorry to those that screwed up (myself included)

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  • mrtaboo2517mrtaboo2517 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    So anyone who didn't know going into making their account is boned , maybe a heads up about this before the change would of been nice. There seems to be no problem notifying us when there is something new to spend money on the the C-Store. :mad:
  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    tacofangs wrote: »
    In order to link accounts, you will have to have a PW account.

    Many (most) people, take their usual @handle/forum name/current login, and use that as their new PW name/login as well.

    The problem is that since PW doesn't let you set your display name (what we actually see in the forum) to be the same as your login name (for security I assume), if you make a PW account using your old Cryptic login, you've now locked yourself out of using that name as your display name.


    Instead, if you haven't linked yet, when you go to set up your PW account, make your account name something different than what you've been using. Then, set your DISPLAY NAME to your old Cryptic account name/@handle/forum name, then link.

    That should preserve your forum name.

    Hope that's helpful. Sorry to those that screwed up (myself included)

    It didn't work for me. Though customer support claimed that there was another guy using the same name somewhere on the Perfect World. Could be, could still be a frack-up, I don't know.
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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    tacofangs wrote: »
    In order to link accounts, you will have to have a PW account.

    Many (most) people, take their usual @handle/forum name/current login, and use that as their new PW name/login as well.

    The problem is that since PW doesn't let you set your display name (what we actually see in the forum) to be the same as your login name (for security I assume), if you make a PW account using your old Cryptic login, you've now locked yourself out of using that name as your display name.


    Instead, if you haven't linked yet, when you go to set up your PW account, make your account name something different than what you've been using. Then, set your DISPLAY NAME to your old Cryptic account name/@handle/forum name, then link.

    That should preserve your forum name.

    Hope that's helpful. Sorry to those that screwed up (myself included)

    Ahhh...

    That's what did it...

    Having never set up a PW account before, when it asked for an Acct Name, I used something different from my forum handle...

    Just dumb-luck on my part, didn't even occur to me to do it on purpose.
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  • azurianstarazurianstar Member Posts: 6,985 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    At this rate, the only thing we can do to save our Identities is put something in our Sig IDing ourselves with our old Cryptic Name.

    I just hope PW lets us keep our Cryptic Account in STO, else things will be thrown into chaos as we wouldn't know know who is who.
  • josephkerrjosephkerr Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    daveyny wrote: »
    Ahhh...

    That's what did it...

    Having never set up a PW account before, when it asked for an Acct Name, I used something different from my forum handle...

    Just dumb-luck on my part, didn't even occur to me to do it on purpose.

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  • nyiadnyiad Member Posts: 220 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    tacofangs wrote: »
    In order to link accounts, you will have to have a PW account.

    Many (most) people, take their usual @handle/forum name/current login, and use that as their new PW name/login as well.

    The problem is that since PW doesn't let you set your display name (what we actually see in the forum) to be the same as your login name (for security I assume), if you make a PW account using your old Cryptic login, you've now locked yourself out of using that name as your display name.


    Instead, if you haven't linked yet, when you go to set up your PW account, make your account name something different than what you've been using. Then, set your DISPLAY NAME to your old Cryptic account name/@handle/forum name, then link.

    That should preserve your forum name.

    Hope that's helpful. Sorry to those that screwed up (myself included)

    Well at least The Taco Head is one of the other who got screwed on this deal...makes me feel a tab better (as in Cryptic employees got the same deal we got). :frown:
  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    josephkerr wrote: »
    Fortune favours women, children and friendly Under-bridge dwellers named daveyny

    ...fixed that.... :biggrin:
    nyiad wrote: »
    Well at least The Taco Head is one of the other who got screwed on this deal...makes me feel a tab better (as in Cryptic employees got the same deal we got). :frown:



    Tab was a very popular thespian many years ago...

    But I'll bet you feel a tad better now. :wink:

    (then again, perhaps you are feeling Tab.. I have no idea where you live or what your personal preferences are... :tongue:)
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  • kobayashlmarukobayashlmaru Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    I personally hope our in-game @name never becomes our forum display name. I get comments in-game all the time asking me about my old name. I'd prefer to keep it that way.
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  • pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
    edited June 2012
    I also want to note that other PWE forums allow you to post as your in-game character on the forums. We're actually trying to get this tech into the STO forums, so, for example, I would show as "Brandon@PWE_BranFlakes". This is something are working on, and trying to do, but there is no ETA on time to implementation. :smile:

    Cheers,

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  • meurikmeurik Member Posts: 856 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    How about a compromise? Let us use our in-game characters, WITHOUT showing the @handle.
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  • poisonpoison Member Posts: 255 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    pwebranflakes wrote: »
    I also want to note that other PWE forums allow you to post as your in-game character on the forums. We're actually trying to get this tech into the STO forums, so, for example, I would show as "Brandon@PWE_BranFlakes". This is something are working on, and trying to do, but there is no ETA on time to implementation. :smile:

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=

    Glad to hear they took the suggestion to heart. :)
    meurik wrote: »
    How about a compromise? Let us use our in-game characters, WITHOUT showing the @handle.

    Won't work, in-game character names aren't unique, two people could have the same in-game character name and the forums won't allow two posters with the same name.
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  • darkstarkiriandarkstarkirian Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    meurik wrote: »
    How about a compromise? Let us use our in-game characters, WITHOUT showing the @handle.

    This could also cause confusing with who you think your talking to, as when they decide to use a different character as their "Forum Face".

    Example: The Grand Nagus is an Andorian....
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  • lazarus51166lazarus51166 Member Posts: 646 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    How about a compromise? Let us use our in-game characters, WITHOUT showing the @handle.

    I would agree, except for the fact that many players have more than one character. So essentially the possibility would exist to post as more than one person at a time. Needless to say the problems that could cause
  • poisonpoison Member Posts: 255 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    lazarus51166 wrote: »
    I would agree, except for the fact that many players have more than one character. So essentially the possibility would exist to post as more than one person at a time. Needless to say the problems that could cause

    That's actually allowed in other PWE games, they have no problems with that. I guess cause since it's F2P there's nothing stopping you from just creating another account to post to yourself even without letting you switch characters.
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  • crypticarmsmancrypticarmsman Member Posts: 4,115 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    pwebranflakes wrote: »
    I also want to note that other PWE forums allow you to post as your in-game character on the forums. We're actually trying to get this tech into the STO forums, so, for example, I would show as "Brandon@PWE_BranFlakes". This is something are working on, and trying to do, but there is no ETA on time to implementation. :smile:

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=

    I think it would be nice if our STO (and CO when it's 'converted) would SHOW UP on the PWE games profile/user account page (on their grey themed site that many links take us to).

    I currently am seen as having no characters in any PWE games (of which I assume STO is now one of those games) - yet I have 2 Level 50 Fed and 1 Level 50 KDF, which I've all played many tikmes since the site update back on 6/20/12. (I also have multiple CO chraracters but that site has yet to be fully 'updated'.)
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  • commadorebobcommadorebob Member Posts: 1,223 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    poison wrote: »
    Won't work, in-game character names aren't unique, two people could have the same in-game character name and the forums won't allow two posters with the same name.

    For some reason, this made me think of this video.
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  • kobayashlmarukobayashlmaru Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    pwebranflakes wrote: »
    I also want to note that other PWE forums allow you to post as your in-game character on the forums. We're actually trying to get this tech into the STO forums, so, for example, I would show as "Brandon@PWE_BranFlakes". This is something are working on, and trying to do, but there is no ETA on time to implementation. :smile:

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=

    To be clear, you are saying our character and in-game @name could be our display name? If so, this would indeed be a great compromise.
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  • jonathanlonehawkjonathanlonehawk Member Posts: 674 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    pwebranflakes wrote: »
    I also want to note that other PWE forums allow you to post as your in-game character on the forums. We're actually trying to get this tech into the STO forums, so, for example, I would show as "Brandon@PWE_BranFlakes". This is something are working on, and trying to do, but there is no ETA on time to implementation. :smile:

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=

    That would be a great solution to our issue... however, CS told they CANNOT change my forum name, so is that the "new tech" you are waiting on?

    I ask because when CO goes the way of STO my forum name will be showing my secret identity to the whole world. :biggrin:
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  • bluegeekbluegeek Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2012
    pwebranflakes wrote: »
    I also want to note that other PWE forums allow you to post as your in-game character on the forums. We're actually trying to get this tech into the STO forums, so, for example, I would show as "Brandon@PWE_BranFlakes". This is something are working on, and trying to do, but there is no ETA on time to implementation. :smile:

    Cheers,

    Brandon =/\=

    So, let me see if I understand this...

    If implemented, I would be able to post as G'eek@bluegeek or Rhyannha@bluegeek, and could switch between the two?

    And if I could switch, would the forum badge/avatar also change with it? As in, G'eek has a Federation badge and Rhyannha displays a KDF badge?

    THAT would be cool, if so.
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