Archived Faction Naming Mechanics

[Celeras]

I did a search, didn't find anything related to this suggestion which surprises me since I doubt I'm alone in this.

One thing that always annoyed me about factions is not having the ability to have a name with a space in between words. For example, instead of a faction named "CelsLanding" It would be "Cels Landing." I don't claim to know a lot about plugins, but it seems like it would be possible given there are other commands on the server like /nick and /char that recognize spaces.

Another thing I was wondering is why we can only have alphanumeric names. The name example above would normally have an apostrophe (Cel's Landing) but it's not allowed. Why?

 

[Zacatero]

So one of the reasons a space is not allowed is because it would trigger a toggle. In some commands, there is another part after you type the faction name. This would confuse the program

 

[Celeras]

So one of the reasons a space is not allowed is because it would trigger a toggle. In some commands, there is another part after you type the faction name. This would confuse the program

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Edit: I mistook what you were saying.

If that is the case, why not have the plugin only recognize words inside quotes or parenthesis as the name?

 

[Zacatero]

Edit: I mistook what you were saying.

If that is the case, why not have the plugin only recognize words inside quotes or parenthesis as the name?

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So that could work. But to answer your original question. It works in /nick and in /money and /char. Because it's the last part of the command. There are no toggles after that. Same sometimes occurs in /f name. But there is a toggle. If you don't use it, it assumes your faction. But you can change the name of another faction when given the correct permissions. So it probably won't work in /f name

 

[PariahFolk]

One solution might be to follow through with the existing mechanics for Faction titles to add spaces, such as
/f title {Username} &b&oExample\ Title
Since it already exists in code, such a remedy wouldn't take /as/ long to be implemented. The new command might work as follows.
/f name Example\ Faction

I think this would come in handy and would certainly help soothe my OCD when it comes to faction names