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Aliases, or how I learned to learn people's names


JamOfBoy

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Here's a loophole: What if someone you never met identifies over the radio? Whacky Voice says, "Hi I'm George Melons." You now know that voice is the voice of George Melons, but his name doesn't update for you since you didn't see his face and do some clicking.

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1 hour ago, Mofo1995 said:

an obvious flaw in this dumb idea

Then it's busted and that's a problem. There a lot of problems with this idea and part of the purpose of this suggestion was merely seeing if the concept was something people agreed on. The mechanics of this are an entirely different and annoyingly complex problem that we might never be able to pull off.
But there are work-arounds. If we want to go full crazy mode saying your name letter for letter could trigger something that lets you add them to the list of people you know and start seeing them as George Melons. Perhaps something like this:

Whacky Voice says, "Hello my name is George Melons." <- you would have the ability to click on the text George Melons which lets you add them to your contact list.
George Melons says, "It is nice to meet y HELP MAINT HELP NINAJ SEC MAINT"

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17 hours ago, JamOfBoy said:

Perhaps something like this:

Whacky Voice says, "Hello my name is George Melons." <- you would have the ability to click on the text George Melons which lets you add them to your contact list.
George Melons says, "It is nice to meet y HELP MAINT HELP NINAJ SEC MAINT"

This solution prevents you from lying mechanically, which introduces the same metagaming issue as this feature not existing.

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Funnily, were this added, I'd go out of my way to keep from learning people's names (and to a lesser extent, letting them learn my characters' names) just to evoke a feeling of distance and visibly remind people that some coworkers don't give a shit about who you are, only that you do your job.

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43 minutes ago, KingOfThePing said:

I am not entirely sure if I understand this suggestion

The objective is to have a method of not knowing who a character is because their name popped up in text somewhere due to game mechanics, such as general comms. Ive grown a station nymph into a gestalt and had the HoP wordlessly generate me an ID and records, never once asking my name.

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