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It is the actual the ops/admins i worry about... not all of em are nice people. I was recently reading a popular hacking forum and most of the names used for brute forcing are gathered from servers.

I would rather see a display name coupled with a unique id [098f2470-bae0-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb]. The Unique Id is given from minecraft login servers and cannot be used in itself for login attempts but would be easily checked by white/blacklists.

People who use the same tag name could be given the choice at login to a server to change it. And people could also register a nick with a server like on IRC... give the server a password to prove that is your nick.

Logging in with nick Ozzymud..
Ozzymud is already in use assigning Guest10234, if the nick belongs to you /msg server Ozzymud <password>.
/msg server Ozzymud 3557et$%464
Verified! Returning your nick.

player.dat is still stored using the unque id, permissions and all that use the unique id.

UUID: There are 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 possible UUIDs

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I totally agree with you. Just think of all the noobs that would be changing their names all the time just for the hell of it! Although I think that for special cases (like people that accidentally put in their real name) should be able to change once.

Maybe just once a month/year a name change? Anymore would cost 10 bucks?

This could be very useful for some people but i think id like to keep mine as it is.
but there is the thing what if griefers are banned from a server then change their usernames then grief it again?

so with teh server ban thing just make it so it bans your ip not your name

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so with teh server ban thing just make it so it bans your ip not your name

Did you read any of the thread? I can change my dynamic IP within seconds by instructing my router to do so. Most DSL users also get a new IP on each connect (which is often). Or, I can use one of the MANY proxies out there to get a new IP address... not effective AT ALL for banning.

Been waiting on name change feature for a long time now. The coding really isn't hard, so there must be another reason.

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i think you should be able to change your name but you should also have a nick name that should be a shortened version of your last name example in chat (chip)chipopotomaus:hi my real mine craft username is chipmunczz but i want it to be chipopootomaus

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Been waiting on name change feature for a long time now. The coding really isn't hard, so there must be another reason.

so that people that are banned from a server don't just change there name and get back on

This is a good idea about the name change but also bad too in some ways which are listed by other players.

Im guessing server owner's will have to do a better job in getting rid of hackers.

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These are the reasons I don't do multi-player without knowing the server owner... Sorry guy, but 4 posts total, no domain, just a server on a redirected port prolly running on your local machine... I'll pass

I agree. You should be able to freely change your name once, then it has to be approved for the following: Not taken, no bad content, nothing with making fun of others. Like the following, sethbling wouldn't be a good name because it is taken. Mr.TurdHead would be a bad name because of bad content. Or IlkiyaniSucks would be a bad name because it is making fun of others.

Like before players should be able to change their name FREELY once. Other than that they might have to pay $2-5 to change to an APPROVED name.

I would love to be able to change my name to something else. Why? MY IGN IS GREIFINGRULES AND EVERYONE CRITICIZES ME JUST CAUSE OF MY NAME.

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This could be very useful for some people but i think id like to keep mine as it is.
but there is the thing what if griefers are banned from a server then change their usernames then grief it again?

Well, maybe they could do the email address or the I.P?

I think you should have to pay at least $3 to get a new username, because if it was free, people would constantly be changing it, and the Mojang team would have to make sure that people aren't picking already chosen names. So for that reason I think name changing should only be allowed once or twice.

Totally agree. I was somewhat younger when I chose my Minecraft name, and looking back at it. I SO regret it. So GLAD to hear a'hint' of 'name-changing' in the future. Its about time.

I hope this happens

This idea sound's good, but i really like my username. That's just me though, other people think differently about this, and that's fine

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I think you should have to pay at least $3 to get a new username, because if it was free, people would constantly be changing it, and the Mojang team would have to make sure that people aren't picking already chosen names. So for that reason I think name changing should only be allowed once or twice.

Please never; I'd much rather Minecraft be more like Steam in allowing you to change your username whenever and however you want than be like the greedily-run Xbox Live with less freedom.