This would serve as a tool of information obfuscation as well as a neat little vanity money sink.
This would serve as a tool of information obfuscation as well as a neat little vanity money sink.
I am opposed to this idea, it has been floated before and as was already pointed out it removes social engineering possibilities. I understand the desire to have this, but it is not going to increase RP, or make the game more fun.
If this was implemented you'd have mostly corpies with vanity aliases to show off their status. As mentioned previously, you can already incorporate yourself to make the law protect you from 'alias theft'.
You don't own an alias, its not yours really and things like that have lead to some unfortunate fourth wall breaks of immersion like 'alias hoppers' which is something I think shouldn't be acknowledge at all ICly because it contradicts the concept IMO.