Quote from DRRichard
Username changes will sure bring a lot of trouble with them;
- Bans, as said before, could only be worked around through unique player ID's and this shouldn't be more than a simple database column addition (if it's not already there).
- Friendlists, if ever imported, should be based on these ID's as well to prevent having a random friend at once.
- And last; famous people that would change their username could have a groupie steal their previous one and so pretend to be him/her. It sounds rather stupid, but I'm can see that would give trouble by giving the famous a bad reputation or such.
Anyway, if they insert username changes they should consider a lot of things before randomly messing with names.
Answer to most of yours: IP's.
If you ban the IP Address of a computer, the person who got banned, even if they changed your username, wouldn't be able to go back on.
Same with friend lists.
Pretty sure famous people wouldn't change their Minecraft username.
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Answer to most of yours: IP's.
If you ban the IP Address of a computer, the person who got banned, even if they changed your username, wouldn't be able to go back on.
Same with friend lists.
Pretty sure famous people wouldn't change their Minecraft username.