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Just to add another spin to the ideas floating around here, you can use accounts to provide a distinction between IC and OOC quite easily. All you need to do is change the way global OOC channels are handled so that instead of a character's player name they use their account name. The same can be done for the Wholist, updating it so there are two, one showing all the accounts logged into the game and the second providing an idea of what IC characters are in the game.
As an example for the second wholist you might just have a list of different categories of players:
IC WHO
Galactic Empire: <14 Players online, Leader online, Second online>
Rebel Alliance: <30 Players online, Second online>
Bounty Hunters: <5 online>
So instead of OOCly knowing that Luke the Jedi is on so you can go and hunt him down, you would actually need to aquire IC information about him being 'around' (word of mouth, bumping into him, etc).
A little tangent for you all there.
-Nek
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