SIC SHADOWS
Easier/lazier solution, now with more spam

Proposed solution: Each time cwho is called, add 10-20 additional alias' to the list, ranging from proper names, to abbreviated names, to uninitialized alias', to propagate a massively bigger pool on filtered lists, and to increase the total pool size on a full cwho.

Effects: Greatly confuses who may or may not be an active player. While also increasing the amount of false information the command generates. Possible that you could do this just within the printing code for the cwho, but may or may not be likely. Could generate lag, if it's gotta iterate over a large list of things. Really speaking from a development standpoint this is the lazy slow solution compared to creating a system that discourages people from suspecting alias hoppers, like my previous one. However this one changes less from the status quo. Which might be more to other peoples tastes.

When the devs have admitted that this is an issue.

You need to stop complaining, meaninglessly, about what is and isn't an issue.

As long as we're throwing out ideas for fixing what isn't broken, let's tack a tax onto alias changes.

Oooo ooooo, I have another one. Let's proactively filter out all common dictionary words and most slang. Because with ~70 million people you know that someone already has the alias that you want.

I have an even BETTER idea. Let's make it a Thing that the WJF is cracking down on alias hopping. So not only do you have to pay 10c for it, you have to go to a terminal and stand in line to do it, kind of like non-corporate citizens have to do when exiting the lev stations on Green. Imagine the chaos that ensues when the person right in front of you takes YOUR alias. This just keeps getting better. The machine has a SICPuppy like feature that tells everyone around, "Thank you for becoming NEEDLESS. Have a nice day."

"Beat that bitch Mixer until their alias is your alias!"

I love it.

We should have more threads like this.

Never thought I'd type that out.

Well done!