when are they going to make it so you need a password to sign in? some kid keeps using my name on purpose.

ooooh it gets worse...wait til they change their name to mimic yours like aerohottie or aeroturd and then stalk you...................grr!

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if they get in trouble with that name it will just ban their IP and not the name right?

Welcome to the world of NON-Registered iSketch.

Suggest you consider something different or add another letter "r".

There are bazillions of arguments for and against registration - including whether or not people would pay to play, or if registration was compulsory - people might get in first and take your user name.

And yes it's IP based.

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Maybe this is just me being picky but technically the name doesnt belong to you to begin with. Until registration is possible if it ever will be names are all on a first come first served basis with the exception of Admin names which are registered for security reasons which i shal not go into.

And to be even more picky on the technicalities side even if registration was possible you still wouldnt technically own the name, only the priviledge to use it.

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well i wasn't worried about the name as much as me getting banned for someone else.. but it was said it's done by IP so I'm good. if you sign on another name do you buddies still exist in the list?

yes, your buddies stay with your ip

Nope, they are saved locally :)

in the computer??

because i travel back and forth from school to my moms and dads houses.. and my buddies stay with me..

Do you carry your laptop with you?

Im not sure if its been changed recently or not but certain settings have been stored locally on your computer.

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yeah laptop goes with me

Then so do your settings. :D

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As soon as I see registrations available I'm gonna sign up as all you lot and sell the accounts on eBay... :P

I don't see why registration would necessarily incur a cost. Charging to play would require registration, but allowing registration would not require a charge.

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lol ches,

However although I have only been on isketch a couple of years, ever since I first joined players have been talking about registrations, do you really think it will happen ?
I for one hope it does, but if it was going to have happened, surly it would have done so by now, perhaps there are reasons why it hasn't.

One of the main reasons i would suggest to why it hasnt happened yet is the possibility of 2 different people using the same name at different times therefore thinking they both have rights to it and that sort of thing causeing a flood of emails to feedback with similar situations.

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i PMed Rob, once, and he said something about registrations being available in... September? or December? somewhere around there. but he DID say they would be available sooner or later.

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Sounds good to me

I believe that registration would be awesome, and why it was never set up that way from the very beginning is a mystery to me. To combat the viewpoint that registrations would arise a conflict about someone stealing your name, I just have to say 'who cares?' Really, it's just a name, and as long as friends would know who was really who, and you had all your friends on your buddy list, it really shouldn't matter what your name is. The benefits that would come from registered accounts would outweigh the 1st grade quarrels about who stole your name.

What benefits? Do you have some secret insider goss?

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Ha, I wish I did. But as for benefits, you could access your own profile from any computer and any IP address. A more personalized profile would also be possible. Also, you could always locate your friends on your buddy list without worrying if they were under a different name or not. Also, I'm fairly sure that the names on your buddy list aren't IP-linked, and that any computer that used that log-in name would appear as logged on under your buddy list: The registration would eliminate this problem.

the names are definately not linked to IPs

Not true as even with registration your profile would be stored locally on your own machine.

Not sure what you mean by this or how

Buddy lists are based on names and again stored locally on your own machine.

Registration would only eliminate the problem if all your buddies were also registered.

I can tell you that registration is definitely planned for the not so distant future and is something that I believe Rob and the admin team want almost as much if not more than the rest of the players.

Great I can't wait.
Will it be first come first served ?
what will happen with all the tinkerbell's/ sexychick's etc ?
Also whats to stop someone registering another players name, before they do ?
Once all these minor problems are sorted, I think it will make isketch a much better place.

BB, would you give us a heads up when registrations start? I don't think we wouldn't want anybody cybersquatting on our preferred usernames...

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Yes i agree, would you please give us a heads up BB,
As i dont want some one stealing my cherry