In my Descent days, I flew under lots of pseudonyms. The chief reason, initially, was pure laziness. I would vary my gameplay flavor by using different weapon autoselect lists and taunt macros. For instance, normal was Plasma on top, then Laser (Quad 6 baby, yeah), then Gauss. However, I had a pilot who'd haunt levels with a Phoenix cannon and had it on top, with taunt macros customized for teasing the dead about the history of their final moments. I had another pilot who would use NOTHING BUT lasers and had all the other guns disabled. (That one was a lot of fun. Lasers were typically looked down on as an inferior weapon by most.)
The thing is, when I flew these oddball pilots, the other players didn't know it was me (well, most of them didn't) and this proved entertaining in its own right. So I got in the habit of flying incognito quite a bit! That was very helpful in my ladder days, both as a player and a ladder admin. It's always good to have more intel on people than they realize.
I've never gone incognito with Civ, of course. (What's the point? At least in SP. People who know me would recognize me from my writing style. Just the fact that I go on and on and on about nothing useful would be a dead giveaway!
That and my writer's obsession with correct punctuation! I'd break down if I tried to fake bad punction for too long.
I'd literally have a conniption!
Oh, and my heavy use of smilies, tons of cropped screenies, and general turn of phrase.
The fifth or sixth time I write the same stupid phrase in the same thread, the mask would be off. Not to mention the raw verbiage. People's "Sirian RADAR" would be pinging in the first couple of posts!)
Anyway, all of my parts have arrived. Won't have the new rig up tonight, but it won't be too much longer.
- Sirian
(SPGT32 - Sirian will know what I'm talking about, but no one else will! 
