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Jun 21, 2004, 12:12pm

Not to be too technical, but it's not really promised to you.
What's promised is that you can "reserve a unique citizen name," and, if I'm
not mistaken, you've done exactly that. No other *citizen* may use that
name, hence it is a unique citizen name. Whatever you decide to read into
that isn't AWIs problem. However!

On a second note, my opinion is that a tourist account should be a
specially-flagged citizen account, requiring them to obtain a login and
password, register a name, and obtain an ID number. They still build as cit
0, can't enter certain worlds or use certain avatars and have quotes around
their names, but now I can uniquely ID them in a bot and they can no longer
steal your name. Everyone wins (mostly bot designers...
mwa-ha-haa-ha-haaaa!). What some might not like here is the steady increase
it citnums available as hundreds of tourists register, come in once, and
never return. An easy solution would be to delete tourist cit accounts after
1 week of being totally innactive and reuse the number. This may not be the
best idea for everyones needs, however it's the one which fits my evil plot
(unique character identification by citnum) best.

Brought to you by MonkeyCorp: "We're evil so you don't have to be!"
Yep.

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Jun 21, 2004, 3:24pm

Of course, it does require all components (browser, SDK, server) to be
revised, not to mention most bots, and a new SDK attribute such as aw_bool
(AW_CITIZEN_TOURIST).. I did admit it was a rather selfish idea. ;D

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