Thread:Merrimack/@comment-32738051-20160221135948

I don't know about anyone else here but the majority of my friends in game have come from the game and not through this Wiki. The problem with that is that many of those friends aren't as good friends of mine as are the ones in this Wiki. I've had to drop many of them because they would leave the game for 2 months or longer. Some of the rest are very casual players, playing the game for a brief period then leaving for a week or two and I find myself constantly shuffling them to my inactive list. There are even a few who never acknowledge the gifts I send them but continue to play so that, if I use the sort by activity checkbox in game, they're never or rarely at the bottom of the list, meaning I usually end up continuing to gift them long after I should. Many of these friends I've accumulated in game are ones that I've requested from the Invite list updates in game and I've stopped doing that. More recently, the ones accumulated in game have turned up in my Waiting room uninvited, presumably because I ended up in their Invite list updates in game. As I've weeded out my friends list, I've taken a chance and accepted several of these in game. And none of them are on this Wiki.

Though this isn't the only reason, not by a long shot, why I prefer friends who have registered and post regularly to this Wiki, it is a good one. And I'd like to encourage all my friends in game who aren't already to become members here. So, hopefully, I can cultivate a better friends list. Given the lack of an in game chat option, the only way I can think of to encourage them to do so us by changing my game name temporarily. And given I'm on Windows and our version of the game limits game names to only 12 characters, whatever I pick has to be a short one. I'm thinking about changing it to PlsJoinWiki.

What do all of you think? Would it work? Would it be too confusing for everyone? If you think I should try it, how long do you think I should wait before I change it back? Let me know. Thanks. 