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Bot-Bot
Mar 9, 2006, 07:47 PM
I was just wondering what the name size limit will be for this game.

Has anyone seen a long online name yet? like in the screenshots?

EDIT: one more thing, does how long the Japanese names are corrolate(sp?) to how long english names could be?

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_Tek_
Mar 9, 2006, 10:00 PM
I'm not sure about the name lengths (ill only need 6-7 so I dont care)

And about japanese to english, do you mean length as in characters? Because I think you'll end up with more letters in english when translation from japanese.

Kent
Mar 10, 2006, 05:58 PM
A character in japanese, Kanji aside, will romanize to about 1-3 characters each.

I'm going to guess, though, that in english, we'll get a max of about 16 characters. Nice little multiple of 8.

Espilonarge
Mar 10, 2006, 07:03 PM
I doubt it will be that short. In the picture I've linked shows 7 Kenji symobols together with a dot. If I'm right that would be "Doctor.Dorson" since thats the only character I know that has a name that large in the Story/Single Player Mode but since I'm no good with translations, I could be wrong but thats proof enough that you can have upto 8 Kenji symbols so far. It'll most likely be 16 just like PSO thoe since that gives everyone a large enough range to place there name.

http://www.pso-world.com/images/screenshots/psu/universe_108.jpg

One thing thoe I want to see a policy on is going crazy with names. Allot of people tend to like adding wierd ASCII letters to there name not to be unique but just to be very annoying or a troll.

EDIT

Oops, make that 10. Forgot the name below that, still don't know who's who since I can't read Japanese. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif

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Kent
Mar 11, 2006, 03:20 PM
I don't see any Kanji (not Kenji) in that picture...

I believe the thing you're talking about, is the name above Ethan's status, which says イーサン・ウエーバー.

...Which is katakana, for Eesan Ueebaa... See also: Ethan Waber.

_Tek_
Mar 12, 2006, 03:39 AM
Yeah, katakana
http://www.ciclistica.it/images/Tour_de_France_K-thumb.jpg

Uncle_Pobatti
Mar 17, 2006, 01:35 PM
Limiting though it is, I'd like to see the name size exactly 8 characters, disallowing symbols and numbers. What this would mean is:

1: There would be absolutely NO 'Sephiroth's (lame)

2: Would make it harder for people to create offensive looking names. It really spoils the atmosphere of online games when people call themselves retarded stuff!

I also hope that Section IDs are either gone or no longer linked to character name, so I can finally name my characters what I originally wanted for a change http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

Stan
Mar 17, 2006, 01:56 PM
On 2006-03-12 00:39, _Tek_ wrote:
Yeah, katakana
http://www.ciclistica.it/images/Tour_de_France_K-thumb.jpg


wth is that about?!

about the number of kana and kanji, this beast man has a long name. I don't know his english name but the kana say "rejiinyo.santosa.berafooto"
the number of kana depends on it if you count - as one and the combinations separated or as one, (nyo or ni and yo| fo or fu and o)

I haven't seen any gameplay shots with him in a party so I don't know if his full name will be above his status bar.

Ennie
Mar 17, 2006, 02:45 PM
On 2006-03-17 10:35, Uncle_Pobatti wrote:
Limiting though it is, I'd like to see the name size exactly 8 characters, disallowing symbols and numbers. What this would mean is:

1: There would be absolutely NO 'Sephiroth's (lame)

2: Would make it harder for people to create offensive looking names. It really spoils the atmosphere of online games when people call themselves retarded stuff!

I also hope that Section IDs are either gone or no longer linked to character name, so I can finally name my characters what I originally wanted for a change http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif



I disagree with not being able to use numbers, they are cool name additions to casts(ex. Violet MK2). Though I agree with the stupid ASCII names, those are annoying. >>
OTOH, 8 spaces is way too little... You can't even write Dark Falz with the space in the middle. =P (that's the name of my FOnewm, I found it funny because it was pinkal. xD)
Section IDs were kinda cool, but they could get frustrating when you wanted at all costs a certain name. Then again, I made some really messed chars with unfitting section IDs and am not really complaining.. >>'

Uncle_Pobatti
Mar 17, 2006, 03:14 PM
I was kinda joking with the 8 char limit thing because it seems every online game I play has about 200 'Sephiroth's in it and it'd be interesting forcing these folks to come up with something original for a change http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

_Tek_
Mar 18, 2006, 12:05 AM
On 2006-03-17 10:56, Stan wrote:


On 2006-03-12 00:39, _Tek_ wrote:
Yeah, katakana
http://www.ciclistica.it/images/Tour_de_France_K-thumb.jpg


wth is that about?!


lol, must've not hit ctrl+c on the bookmark link. (the pics from a user's sig on my forum, ALOL)

Here you go:
http://www2.japanese-name-translation.com/jnt/index.asp