What's in a name?
Morganza
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I'm on the screen that says "Choose a Niantic Username" and I'm stumped. Do I use my Ingress agent name? My PoGo Trainer name? My HPWU Wizarding name? How will people recognize me? What if I don't want the other faction to know I'm in a raid and not defending against their fields?
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Would this work as an alternative? I'm assuming that the Niantic Chat username is shared across all products which is its own issue really.
1) Rather than entering your username, you are offered the username options that are recorded against your Niantic Profile hence you are offered a drop down list of your Niantic product usernames
2) (the far better option imo) Niantic Chat usernames are product specific and sourced directly from your Niantic Profile information. This ensures users are identifiable by their relevant in game names (attention would need to be paid to name changes) and maintains peoples desired anonymity across the product range. This also mitigates impersonation of other users.
If I have a thematic immersive HPWU username, a thematic immersive PoGo username, a thematic immersive Ingress username, and a thematic immersive Pikmin username, and a thematic immersive Catan username, maybe I don't want to use any of them.
If a blue-named Pogo player joins Ingress as Enl, they may have a hard time gaining trust.
In the long term, it would be nice to see a set of profile options for:
- share my Ingress Agent name, level, and faction.
- share my PoGo Trainer name, team, and level
- share my HPWU Wizarding name, profession (s), and level
- share my Catan name, tribe, and faction.
Then people would be searchable by any name they have shared, and groups could be filtered by game, level, and game faction. (I.e. form a group for coordinating PoGo raiding with high level yellow players.)
The Niantic Chat needs to offer added value if it's going to replace entrenched external chat groups.