Couldn't have said it any better myself. I'll go back to the cliche proverb, "if you give a man a fish he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish you do him a good turn.". Why not educate the newer players how to message the staff when they are using the nickname feature? Although I do believe this is not an either or situation, if the newer users learned right off the bat how to do /rn {nick-name} to find the name of a particular user, this problem wouldn't be as big of an issue. But, the current staff volunteered to help, and I do believe they should make sacrifices to better help the community they promised to lead. Just my .02 :p

 

I agree with this suggestion, partially.

A staff nick should be something like this.

Eekelmo ----> eek
Oreo1227 ------> oreo

Something that when typed /pm oreo or /pm eek , would lead to oreo1227 or eekelmo.

 

I respect some of your points but on this point I'm not sure if you've been visiting the same one I have. The ECC I'm logging into we are darn lucky if a new builder can get into the right chat channel. Of course anyone can eventually figure out /rn etc, but moderators are supposed to be there to help the most ignorant of ignorant stop being ignorant and if they can't leave /ch tr then I think we should throw them a bone and keep it to a nick that is exactly the mod's ign or is a shortened version which will work to /pm them from.

And I think that in the case of moderators or on all pms it should bypass the ** whole debacle because that's confusing anyway. I read that and then I started /rn **nickname and it was like "player not found" and I about face desked because /pm gets all up in arms about asterisks and then the /real name command doesn't want them either? What a counter-intuitive situation.

 

Yes, while new players need to learn about our nickname system, they also need to be able to message staff as soon as they log onto the server. You raised some good points, so I think the suggestion should be changed that staff shouldn't have nicknames at all. (@BillyL24) This might seem harsh, but as was said, staff need to make sacrifices (and this is a minor sacrifice) in order to be more effective staff. Not having a nickname is something small that could help a lot.

 

The problem is they'll be upset they spent all the money and can't use it. I have nick, I spent my money on it, but I know it confused the heck out of me as a builder so I'm not going to use it until when/if I retire. Or hey, give the staff the privilege of recoloring their names/shortening their names without it being considered a nick so the whole issue can be avoided and vanity is still preserved.

 

IM FAMOUS!

Aside from that, I'm +1ing this again, for same reasons I said in last suggestion with this/ other reasons.

 

If it bothers them that much, they can resign and use it all they want.

This would be a good compromise, not sure if it's possible, but if it is, +1.

 

This^^^

 

The scoreboard (Tab screen) is on every single MC server, nicknames are not. It's far more likely for a user to know about the scoreboard than nicknames.

 

Certain members often don't appear on tab simply because of what letter their name starts with, I know in the past I'e had issues with tab due to my name beginning with an X which is late in the alphabet.

 

I know, I was just saying that a user is much more likely to know about tab than nicknames.

 

Okay, let's try something else. Instead of fighting about the nicks why not just make /pm work with nicknames instead? Problem solved, nobody needs to bitch about nicknames.

as for the ** thing, it's only trivial to filter those out in the pm command.

This suggestion has accomplished, and will not accomplish, anything. All you've done is provoke staffmembers.

 

It would require we use the essentials pm system, and yes, market will be happening once we figure out the eula and end.

 

It is trivial to create a modular hook into Essentials to make Herochat work with nicknames. Don't give me that shit.

 

Never said it's hard or not