Each person should have a different ID for this to work because:
-Griefers using different usernames to work around bans (IP bans would not work computers with multiple people playing on them.)
-It can be confusing to find a account if the username is changed.
-If famous people change their minecraft name, others can steal the old name and portray to be the celerity.
Other Solutions:
On severs: -(old username) has joined and changed their username to (new username). This would prevent confusion, ban work-around's and and celerity imposing on severs the player has already joined before they changed their username.
Restricted names: Choose to set a passcode lock on a username when changing a username to prevent celerity imposing. You can only lock a certain amount of names, though (to prevent spam and player annoyance.)
On forums: Username History to see the previous usernames of a user.
Just some ideas for solutions to problems that might occur.
Changing name means losing your player.dat file on the servers you play on, meaning you lose your money on a roleplay server or even the inventory.
You mean editing 3 numbers off a file? That is so much work!
EDIT: That post was kind of rude, I apologize.
I am on a server that has had over 3k users join, and we have an average of about 20 people on.
It can get up to 42 every 2-3 days, but through various times of the day, the amount on fluctuates. We have our regulars, and only 5-10% would probably go for a name change, it would be an hours' worth of work, then done.
The servers with the most people to be honest, are cracked servers that have 300 slots. Then you can take it as punishment, for those who haven't paid for the game, then the ones that wanted a name change(for a non premium account, on a cracked server, really?) can deal with starting over.
Most servers are never that full, and even then, it isn't too hard to edit some player files. It is about as much work as /nick playername playernick
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I began minecraft ~July 7 2011 1.7.3 Beta
My username used to be Creative_Dalek but is now Dalek since 2/4/2015
I'm sorry, but I despise this idea of changing names. Sure, I regret my name, and more so down the track because I chose it from what bullies used to call me, but honestly let's look at the pros and cons of this.
Pros:
1. You can have a cool new username.
Cons:
1. Server Owners can't ban you if you change your name.
2. It is morally confusing for people to distinguish you.
3. It's going to cause many problems down the track, whether system overloads at Mojang, or debates of innapropriateness.
This is why I don't condone this new idea Jeb brought to mind, it's just plain horrible and will lead to a new level of griefing.
Maybe their should be a limit, maybe only once a year, so that problem will be mainly distinguished.
Or a price, griefers and hackers will be less likely to change their name if it has a price and a clear reason.
If Jeb and Mollstam add the option of changing your username, these ideas should be considered.
- Have the old username be a uniqueID, similar to Steam, so that people would see your fancy new username but servers see your uniqueID.
* This would prevent people banned from a server to just change their name and be let back in without notice.
! This would also make multiplayer less friendly. Changing your name would be basically be changing your ID; how online friends see you and think of you to be someone else unless publicly stated and hoping your online friends trust you.
- Maybe set a limit to username changes if the idea above is too complicated to achieve. Once a year or progressively adding more time if they change the username too much (1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 4 months, 6 months, 1 year, etc.)
* This would also discourage griefers and hackers from just trying to join the same server after they were banned.
- Set up a system to disallow inappropriate names.
* Now that there is the option to change your name, more people are gonna be encouraged to change their name to something innapropriate, but this is not a necessity, server owners and mods will take care of that as needed.
If Jeb and Mollstam add the option of changing your username, these ideas should be considered.
- Have the old username be a uniqueID, similar to Steam, so that people would see your fancy new username but servers see your uniqueID.
* This would prevent people banned from a server to just change their name and be let back in without notice.
! This would also make multiplayer less friendly. Changing your name would be basically be changing your ID; how online friends see you and think of you to be someone else unless publicly stated and hoping your online friends trust you.
- Maybe set a limit to username changes if the idea above is too complicated to achieve. Once a year or progressively adding more time if they change the username too much (1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 4 months, 6 months, 1 year, etc.)
* This would also discourage griefers and hackers from just trying to join the same server after they were banned.
- Set up a system to disallow inappropriate names.
* Now that there is the option to change your name, more people are gonna be encouraged to change their name to something innapropriate, but this is not a necessity, server owners and mods will take care of that as needed.
I agree with you 100% but I think they are just gonna put a price on the name change like WoW. Probly like 5 bucks to change your name er something. At least thats what I think they are going to do.
Thank you jeb. Called myself "JudgeGabranth" as a tribute fan base of a villan in FinalFantasy XII. Im more of a Teddy person. I hope this name change in soon. Sence its in discussion its a matter of when. Soo im hoping soon.
It could be also a bad thing cause people trying to be and appear as one of the top comentaters. Knowing people are easily guilable that way. Also griefers.
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Hmm, I like the idea of having to be able to change your username. But this could result in potential ban evasion. For some, it's a way to start over. However, it is a way for others to reek havoc. So here are my suggestions:
When you first create an account for Minecraft, you choose your username. This username will also be, by default, your display name. This means that when a player logs onto a server, it will first authenticate them by their username. After their username has been authenticated, it will set the player's display name to:
a. the default one
-or-
b. the one they have changed it to
In addition to this, a new command would be included into the vanilla server, allowing those with OP power to lookup a user's username via their display name. A history of a user's display names would also be kept in a database, for a few months at least.
Another option, to prevent ban evasion, would be to limit how often a player could change their display name. After a player first signs up, they are given the ability to switch to a different display name whenever, if they do not wish to use their username. After this first display name change, then a limit of X amount of weeks is instituted before a player can once again change their name.
You guys are stupid or must not play other video games.
You can have a In-Game-Name apart from your username and will cause no difficulties.
I mean with a password cracker, I could take your username and have your account within 24 hours. I feel like having a IGN would be better for security reasons. Since nobody can see what your login name is, they can't hack you.
I don't really like the idea of people being able to change their display names. As long as whitelisting is still done with their original account name it'd be seamless enough, but personally I find it a headache to keep track of who is who, when some people have a tendancy to switch their display name often.
The wiki looks great! I signed up today to edit a page even. Nice work.
I'm sorry, but I despise this idea of changing names. Sure, I regret my name, and more so down the track because I chose it from what bullies used to call me, but honestly let's look at the pros and cons of this.
Pros:
1. You can have a cool new username.
Cons:
1. Server Owners can't ban you if you change your name.
2. It is morally confusing for people to distinguish you.
3. It's going to cause many problems down the track, whether system overloads at Mojang, or debates of innapropriateness.
This is why I don't condone this new idea Jeb brought to mind, it's just plain horrible and will lead to a new level of griefing.
Well i am sure the admins can ip ban or there must be a time limit to change your name lets say one month or a day so you cant change your name freely when ever you want
So... I made an unregistered account with the username I want, thinking I might purchase another account in the future purely for OCD purposes. Anyway, would it be possible to use that one?
I'm wanting to create a space map. I just need the right textures. Give me a good space texture pack without MCpatcher and i will do just fine. I will credit you just...just tell me the link or...yeah.
Cool! But.... If you are banned on a server, than that means that you can just change you're name and join again? And if you locked you're chest or have private protected land on a server (with bukkit), won't you have yourself locked out of you're chest or you're house? Acces is granted or deneid by checking username... Maybe it will go with a 'user ID' system or whatever? (some digits)
Anyways, if they will find a solution for that, username changing would be AWESOME
New wiki design is consistent with the forum, but I still don't like it :/
Also, I think username changes should be like Steam. You get a log in name which can not be changed, but then you get a display name which you can change to anything. This allows for the server to still keep a ban on your account, but you can still change your visible name to anything. You wouldn't even have to make it unique, but that might be kind of an issue later down the road when there are a quadrillion people named Notch or something. Perhaps blacklist all of the Mojang staff member names from being a display name?
Everyone do you think Jeb would be THAT stuipid to make the names instant changeable and being able to pass bans. You would keep your name and it would most likely be like the nicknames mod where you change it in game and its not permanent. Name robbing and power robbing would not be added.
Jeb would think about these things so stop complaing about a great new feature.
-Griefers using different usernames to work around bans (IP bans would not work computers with multiple people playing on them.)
-It can be confusing to find a account if the username is changed.
-If famous people change their minecraft name, others can steal the old name and portray to be the celerity.
Other Solutions:
On severs: -(old username) has joined and changed their username to (new username). This would prevent confusion, ban work-around's and and celerity imposing on severs the player has already joined before they changed their username.
Restricted names: Choose to set a passcode lock on a username when changing a username to prevent celerity imposing. You can only lock a certain amount of names, though (to prevent spam and player annoyance.)
On forums: Username History to see the previous usernames of a user.
Just some ideas for solutions to problems that might occur.
You mean editing 3 numbers off a file? That is so much work!
EDIT: That post was kind of rude, I apologize.
I am on a server that has had over 3k users join, and we have an average of about 20 people on.
It can get up to 42 every 2-3 days, but through various times of the day, the amount on fluctuates. We have our regulars, and only 5-10% would probably go for a name change, it would be an hours' worth of work, then done.
The servers with the most people to be honest, are cracked servers that have 300 slots. Then you can take it as punishment, for those who haven't paid for the game, then the ones that wanted a name change(for a non premium account, on a cracked server, really?) can deal with starting over.
Most servers are never that full, and even then, it isn't too hard to edit some player files. It is about as much work as /nick playername playernick
I began minecraft ~July 7 2011 1.7.3 Beta
My username used to be Creative_Dalek but is now Dalek since 2/4/2015
Maybe their should be a limit, maybe only once a year, so that problem will be mainly distinguished.
Or a price, griefers and hackers will be less likely to change their name if it has a price and a clear reason.
If its a big server, then YES.
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- Have the old username be a uniqueID, similar to Steam, so that people would see your fancy new username but servers see your uniqueID.
* This would prevent people banned from a server to just change their name and be let back in without notice.
! This would also make multiplayer less friendly. Changing your name would be basically be changing your ID; how online friends see you and think of you to be someone else unless publicly stated and hoping your online friends trust you.
- Maybe set a limit to username changes if the idea above is too complicated to achieve. Once a year or progressively adding more time if they change the username too much (1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 4 months, 6 months, 1 year, etc.)
* This would also discourage griefers and hackers from just trying to join the same server after they were banned.
- Set up a system to disallow inappropriate names.
* Now that there is the option to change your name, more people are gonna be encouraged to change their name to something innapropriate, but this is not a necessity, server owners and mods will take care of that as needed.
I agree with you 100% but I think they are just gonna put a price on the name change like WoW. Probly like 5 bucks to change your name er something. At least thats what I think they are going to do.
Thank you jeb. Called myself "JudgeGabranth" as a tribute fan base of a villan in FinalFantasy XII. Im more of a Teddy person. I hope this name change in soon. Sence its in discussion its a matter of when. Soo im hoping soon.
It could be also a bad thing cause people trying to be and appear as one of the top comentaters. Knowing people are easily guilable that way. Also griefers.
When you first create an account for Minecraft, you choose your username. This username will also be, by default, your display name. This means that when a player logs onto a server, it will first authenticate them by their username. After their username has been authenticated, it will set the player's display name to:
a. the default one
-or-
b. the one they have changed it to
In addition to this, a new command would be included into the vanilla server, allowing those with OP power to lookup a user's username via their display name. A history of a user's display names would also be kept in a database, for a few months at least.
Another option, to prevent ban evasion, would be to limit how often a player could change their display name. After a player first signs up, they are given the ability to switch to a different display name whenever, if they do not wish to use their username. After this first display name change, then a limit of X amount of weeks is instituted before a player can once again change their name.
You can have a In-Game-Name apart from your username and will cause no difficulties.
I mean with a password cracker, I could take your username and have your account within 24 hours. I feel like having a IGN would be better for security reasons. Since nobody can see what your login name is, they can't hack you.
The wiki looks great! I signed up today to edit a page even. Nice work.
Well i am sure the admins can ip ban or there must be a time limit to change your name lets say one month or a day so you cant change your name freely when ever you want
Yeh sure
Agreed very much.
Anyways, if they will find a solution for that, username changing would be AWESOME
Also, I think username changes should be like Steam. You get a log in name which can not be changed, but then you get a display name which you can change to anything. This allows for the server to still keep a ban on your account, but you can still change your visible name to anything. You wouldn't even have to make it unique, but that might be kind of an issue later down the road when there are a quadrillion people named Notch or something. Perhaps blacklist all of the Mojang staff member names from being a display name?
Jeb would think about these things so stop complaing about a great new feature.
-Rant over