Pick your own username colour

[Napoléon]

I don't want a system that allows someone to pretend to be a staff member.

Yeah but that's precisely what I was saying. Obviously you reserve colours for the staff members.

You also have the ability to bolden the usernames too right? Staff get bolded usernames to point them out further. Or underlined usernames, or italics, whatever. It shouldn't be hard to make it obvious.

Really it wouldn't be that confusing. I've seen it work on other forums.