This was brought up before and today I've implemented the revised player name restrictions.
Of course the name still has to be 2-15 letters, this is a technical limitation since it uses fixed size buffers in over 9000 places and for the time being this isn't worth the effort to change. However what is different:
You may use a-z, A-Z, 0-9 in the name, as well as the following symbols <space>, [, ], (, ), -, _, ! and +
The only restriction on the extra symbols is that you may not put a space at the start or end of the name.
Character Names in MetalStorm and SE
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Character Names in MetalStorm and SE
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Re: Character Names in MetalStorm and SE
well, all i have to say about this.....
the game ain't in the name........
the game ain't in the name........
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Re: Character Names in MetalStorm and SE
That's quite nice Nef, never liked the restriction of spaces between names.Nefarius" wrote:This was brought up before and today I've implemented the revised player name restrictions.
Of course the name still has to be 2-15 letters, this is a technical limitation since it uses fixed size buffers in over 9000 places and for the time being this isn't worth the effort to change. However what is different:
You may use a-z, A-Z, 0-9 in the name, as well as the following symbols <space>, [, ], (, ), -, _, ! and +
The only restriction on the extra symbols is that you may not put a space at the start or end of the name.
Did you replace the whole function or was this something a few patchs could handle?
Hope I'll be able to do some nice stuff soon as well, only thing I did so far was replace the "Unload bin images" function.
Got to start somewhere, right?
See you man, keep up the good work.
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Re: Character Names in MetalStorm and SE
I replaced three functions that handle this. ( client side callback for when you input text, actual client side verification of the whole name + server side verification of the name ).
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