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So like... are we ever getting paid name changes, or did they just forget about that?
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There's a lot of people on Nao wanting their names changed.
Not everyone likes rocking the +Server after their username.
I certainly didn't.
If it's taking time then that might indicate that they are working on reorganizing how the database is set-up. If they can move to using record number as the Primary Key field this would allow so much more than just enabling server merges. It would make the database completely independent of the load bearing system. They would then be free to move from the channel system to something else.
Something like an Alexina merge maybe.Right now name changes are no doubt done by using a find-replace script wherein they can give it a batch of names to replace and it scans the database to find and replace all instances of that name. Thus it can only be done during server maintenance when nothing else is referencing that data. For a name change item to make sense it really would need to be done on the fly, which means restructuring the database in a way that would allow that. Most critically- you'd probably have to go see Nao first to put your character in a known condition where nothing else is interacting with them that could be broken by the change.