Each character of a username has 37 different possibilities. The 20-character usernames alone have more than 1x10^48 possibilities, so that will never be an issue.
That probably won't ever happen. Kongregate has over 6 million accounts (probably 7 million now) and there are still common usernames that I could make on that site. I don't think you could run out of usernames if you could always use underscores and numbers, and even then, you could always look up words in other languages.
What happens when ArmorGames runs out of usernames?
Magic. Some users will have some really odd usernames. Doom's day. The amount of allowed characters are upped. The names of banned users are recycled. Kittens. None of us will be around to care. Unicorns are made an official part of society, and the year after, The United States of Amropasia get its first Unicorn president. Did I mention kittens?
Magic. Some users will have some really odd usernames. Doom's day. The amount of allowed characters are upped. The names of banned users are recycled. Kittens. None of us will be around to care. Unicorns are made an official part of society, and the year after, The United States of Amropasia get its first Unicorn president. Did I mention kittens?
Are you just trying to want me to have AG run out of usernames?
Why kittens? Dogs are better.
To stay on topic: Usernames will never run out. And if they do then all the things Cenere said will come true.
Aren't there something like 10,314,424,798,490,535,546,171,949,056 (36^18) possible usernames? That doesn't even include symbols. I think we'll be alright.
We will be alright, until we reach 10,314,424,798,490,535,546,171,949,056 users. Since we just hit 1 million last April, we should probably reach that high amount of users in, I don't know, two years?
