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Adjust how names and jobs are written on IDs


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Current IDs read like this: "ID (John Baldman (Assistant (NT)))". That's a lot of brackets stacking up on each other.

If it is possible to do, I think it would read better if they were changed to this: "ID (John Baldman (NT Assistant))".

Or if we wanted to cut down on as many brackets as possible: "ID (John Baldman, NT Assistant)".

It's a small thing about presentation but I do think making things look nice where possible is important.

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This is a pet peeve I've had since forever and I never thought to make a post about. Three brackets hurt my soul, +1 for ID (John Baldman, NT Assistant) or ID (John Baldman - NT Assistant).

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This may look a little messier on the manifest when you're glancing out how many Physicians or Security Officers there are and you get something like: 

Dinkle, Idris Security Officer
Poopy, PMCG Security Officer
Feefoo, Zavod Security Officer

Sure, it looks better on the ID itself, but the manifest is where this tends to matter most. Plus, some of the shortened corps like Zavod, Hepht and Zeng look frankly terrible when they're placed directly in front of a title. It only really works for the other half of corps who either have a full name, or use acronyms - overall it would need to be changed to use the acronym of every corp if it wanted to look uniform and neat, resulting in:

Hepht = HI
Idris = II (this is the only one that has potential to suffer aesthetically from being an acronym, but most fonts you can use rectify that)
Orion = OE
Zeng = ZHP
Zavod = ZI
and as an adjustment for uniformity, NT = NTC

With everything being shortened and made into uniform acronyms, sure, I can see it working. In fact I would give it bonus points for making ZI synthetic names look even dumber, potentially freeing IPCs from that aesthetically ugly naming scheme.

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