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Originally Posted by WarKirby Magojiro  What? You don't seem to be understanding this at all.
Use the SECOND LIFE database. Check it, and BLOCK registration if it's a real avatar name, requiring an alternate method of registering with an inworld terminal. |
Just to clarify WarKirby:
If you wanted to ensure that no one could sign up to openlife with an avatar name that already exists in
SL, then yes, that is technically doable. And perhaps openlife will do that, who knows, and then problem solved. But personally, I wouldn't do that for three reasons:
1. There are millions of avatar names registered on
SL that are not even being used. That discards a huge number of names that could have been used in openlife with out disgruntling anyone.
2. Although I wouldn't want people picking
SL names motivated by malice or greed, I also don't think that just because a generic name has been taken in
SL, no one can ever have that with another company. Taking Anshe Chung would fall into the first category, taking something like Digital Metaverse would fall into the second.
3. Openlife is based on
SL tech. But I'm sure they will want to evolve as an entity in their own right, and having the
SL database as part of your registration process is obviously counter to that aim.
The logistics problems that I mentioned were in separating the two categories in point 2., and removing those in 1.