Yeah, but keep in mind having the option for laziness, it seems a lot of people fall into the habit. I got Quezzumpliet upset with me more than a few times trying to "tell que" to talk to Quevea. Secondly, there is the reasonable arguement people have been having about the thief "Guar". Trying to kill someone who sneaks, who's natural habitat is around guards? Not pleasant, and there's utterly nothing you can do about it, because no matter what abbreviation, or not, that you use, you're still quite likely to strike a guard instead, if he's walked off, or hidden, etc.

Chars who start with Self-something, or similar things? I agree with Manden. Yeah, I'll admit. We're lazy now, but I do the same thing...rush of a pk, I'll cut the name down to try and get that attack in before them, and it's resulted in me doing very bad things to myself. (Skill % loss as well, which was REALLY annoying) Even his groupmates mentioned it later. So, yeah, I'd *like* to see maybe no names startable with Self-something, and having self be unabbreviatable. But...it involves a coder wasting their time on what we can deal with ourselves...so if it doesn't get done, I understand. I just did want to point out I do think people choose these names intentionally to cause other people aggravation with this new code, and it seems a breaching of the spirit of the game, if not the hard rules.

Second case...that's really nasty. Having a name *shorter* than a common mob shortname. That I'd *REALLY* like to see something done about, but it kinda seems a bit hard to keep track of what you could do or not. So, yeah, name change as it comes up, or some ingenius code, but something please?

Anyways, just through out my agreement with Manden and some...yes, it's our own fault, but I don't think it's a cry at powergaming, but more a perceived intentional abuse by another player of the abbreviation code. Which is just making other players unhappy.