{snip] I think everyones BBS name and call sign in the game should be the same. That way you can't hide behind a BBS persona, and people could be some what held accountable for what they type.
I had an AH BBS ID for probably 5 years before I switched to the sim and opened an account for online play - my BBS ID was my WWIIOL callsign (I switched call signs going to WWIIOL because I couldn't use "-Ghost", as I had been in WB's).
And when I went into an AH arena for the first time and was forced to choose a callsign, it wouldn't let me use "Ghastly", so I had to choose something different. So it's not always intentional when people use different ID's - and that's excluding the fact that you can change your online callsign but not your BBS id.
I wouldn't mind if they were (forced to be) the same, but things would need to change administratively for that to happen, and I'd rather the HTC crew spent dev time on more important things.
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