UnrealDecoy Posted April 27, 2006 Posted April 27, 2006 Okay, mtasa won't let me use <>'s as a clan tag. When I type Sheepee as my playername in mtasa it shows as _DMC>Sheepee in the playerlist. Is there any chance of this being fixed in a future release?
Aeron Posted April 28, 2006 Posted April 28, 2006 That is odd, we'll look into it. This is protection against: immitators. You implent it urself, (Or Oli !@!11!11!21@#!@1!!11one!!!)
UnrealDecoy Posted April 28, 2006 Author Posted April 28, 2006 How about you can only use <>'s if there is text after it so that: won't work but name would (this would be a pointless attempt at an imitation)
slush Posted April 29, 2006 Posted April 29, 2006 because people would still think that is an administrator talking to them.
UnrealDecoy Posted April 29, 2006 Author Posted April 29, 2006 OK, so make it so that if someone has any of or or or it doesn't work (the first < shows up as an _ ) but if you have anything else ( included) it does? It's usually pretty obvious when someone is immitating an admin anyway. Isn't that hard to change it surely?
Ransom Posted April 30, 2006 Posted April 30, 2006 Obviousness is relative to the observer.. and there are some foolish people in MTA. It just can't be done because people could manipulate the tags too much. It would take alot of extra work just so you can use "<" without risk. The standard gang tag was defined with "[ ]" ages ago in mtavc for a similar reason... problems with { } brackets (pm'ing players, wasnt it?). I suggested VCP start using [ ] and other gangs eventually switched to, as they were obviously the best alternative.
UnrealDecoy Posted May 2, 2006 Author Posted May 2, 2006 Isn't this a little extreme to, essentially, stop 3 names being used? It's a huge removal of functionality to clans who have always used <> for their clan tag. You said yourself that "obviousness is relative to the observer" you then went on to say that "[] ...were obviously the best alternative." Well I'm sorry to say that it's not obvious to me... Let me put it another way: If I have my name as I don't look like an admin, so why shouldn't I be allowed to call myself ?
eAi Posted May 15, 2006 Posted May 15, 2006 We might look into solving it, but its hardly a "huge removal of functionality". Just prefix and suffix your tag with something else, or prefix the whole tag with another character, e.g. - or a space. I know its annoying, but to be honest we really have a lot of more important things to look at fixing right now
J0han Posted July 9, 2006 Posted July 9, 2006 Seems that there is also a problem in the gui text boxes, at least for me. Sometime i just can't write '[sPA]Johan'. When I get to write the 'a', the '[sPA]Joh' dissapears The only solution I found is to write first 'an' and then '[sPA]Joh'. (Or edit myself the ini file) [EDIT] Made a new thread for this, in the client's help area subforum: http://forum.mtavc.com/viewtopic.php?p=233545#233545
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