[shutterfreak]

Originally Posted by Videx

Oh, you wouldn't be the first to release a mod which required so many template edits that I just wouldn't mess with them. Although that Template Modification System was real nice.

Fortunately I managed to limit the template edits to 1: a mere addition of some HTML & template preprocessor code, no replacements

I see no reason yet why this should change.

Originally Posted by Videx

I think the OP was just asking how he could force users to use real names. He didn't ask about virtual names (or second user names) at all. VB has always used numbers to identify members. So in theory there's no reason you couldn't have say, 10 alternate aliases in your Settings and you could change them as the mood strikes you. Not for my forum, but I can picture lots of people installing a virtual name mod if it was easy enough.

You're right about the internal identifiers used in vBulletin: they're all numbers. This is 'never' exposed to the users. for this reason I infer that the OP thought about the 'username' field as the identifier he wanted to be the real name of a participant.