SM xenex Posted September 21, 2003 Share Posted September 21, 2003 I have come across a player that was using my name and (you could say ) also impersenating a non-existing MTA team member .SO i asked him to change his name maybe he did not know that that name was already used by someon, but he didnt he even liked that he was impersenating someone else.So now im asking can MTA make the client to have a pass field for yuyou to make and enter a password.For example thru the forums u sign up with a name and a pass , and in the client u must just type it.Please MTA team work on this i hate it ppl using others name , and for this guy , i want everyone to know i DO NOT use the MTA in my name, cause im not a MTA member,and for some of you thgat might meet this guyy online , or someone claiming to be me, using my name : SM xenex please be carefull cause this may not be me, it might be the copycat. Please to everyone who reads this please your comments, and iff anyone kows how to do the advice i gave about pass protected names on the client post them here too. Here are some pictures of the event:[/img] Link to comment
ijsf Posted September 21, 2003 Share Posted September 21, 2003 I understand this is very annoying.. But it's a hell of a job to add these user/password fields cause all nicks need to be registered etc etc.. Link to comment
SM xenex Posted September 21, 2003 Author Share Posted September 21, 2003 Is it really that hard IJsVogel, I dont really know? Maybe someone that will reply here might know of a way to do it, thanx for your comment IJsVogel. Link to comment
Guest Posted September 21, 2003 Share Posted September 21, 2003 I have come across a player that was using my name and (you could say ) also impersenating a non-existing MTA team member .SO i asked him to change his name maybe he did not know that that name was already used by someon, but he didnt he even liked that he was impersenating someone else.So now im asking can MTA make the client to have a pass field for yuyou to make and enter a password.For example thru the forums u sign up with a name and a pass , and in the client u must just type it.Please MTA team work on this i hate it ppl using others name , and for this guy , i want everyone to know i DO NOT use the MTA in my name, cause im not a MTA member,and for some of you thgat might meet this guyy online , or someone claiming to be me, using my name : SM xenex please be carefull cause this may not be me, it might be the copycat.Please to everyone who reads this please your comments, and iff anyone kows how to do the advice i gave about pass protected names on the client post them here too. i personally think that is a rediculous idea firstly the effort that goes into doing it WAY outweighs the result secondly, what if some people did just happen to have the same names? not using ur as an example but things like Dragon, Zero, Apocalypse, Neo and names like that (no offence if u have a name like this) are quite common and it is not rare to find people with VERY similar to same names... - my 2 cents (well, if we still had 1s and 2 cent coins here in aus...) Link to comment
SM xenex Posted September 21, 2003 Author Share Posted September 21, 2003 Kroba wrote : i personally think that is a rediculous idea firstly the effort that goes into doing it WAY outweighs the result secondly, what if some people did just happen to have the same names? not using ur as an example but things like Dragon, Zero, Apocalypse, Neo and names like that (no offence if u have a name like this) are quite common and it is not rare to find people with VERY similar to same names... - my 2 cents (well, if we still had 1s and 2 cent coins here in aus...) Firstly sorry but I think that ridiculous is not the right word, i think surely this idea , is not ridiculous , maybe u think its bad , but surely not ridiculous. Your right that some names are used by more then one personbut it would be just like here on the forums, first come first serve, the one that comes first gets the name (example) Dragon , and then the second guy sorry for him , but he would have to use anotheer name maybe Dragon 2 or something but u get the idea. Link to comment
sm|slash Posted September 21, 2003 Share Posted September 21, 2003 yeah xenex lets kill them all and make an system so you cant be named MTA in your nick Link to comment
Guest Posted September 21, 2003 Share Posted September 21, 2003 I wondered if that would happen.. Link to comment
Gussi Posted September 21, 2003 Share Posted September 21, 2003 I wouldn't about some dude that has my nick, and I don't care about some reputation either, just go to another server and he'll change it (my nick is gussi if you haven't figure that out by now) Link to comment
Monk Posted September 21, 2003 Share Posted September 21, 2003 I can't believe you called him a copycat. What are you, 7 years old? Grow up and stop complaining over such minor things. Link to comment
SM xenex Posted September 21, 2003 Author Share Posted September 21, 2003 Well im not american or is english my first langauge i dont remember iff there is a better word for copycat ok?And it seems that people dont agree with me , so i think its better for me to expect more people using my name in the future. Link to comment
SteadVéx Posted September 21, 2003 Share Posted September 21, 2003 I don't think you should need to register, but i think it would be nice if your forum nicks could only be used by u, ie the client checks your username and if its listed on the forum u need that pass for it, so only people who register on the forum can use there own registered nicks, like on irc chats, u register ur name so no one else uses it, but it doesn't mean you have to.. i think its pretty simple using a database to do this, (i'm not saying it is, but i think ms access has some examples of how to do it, use an online SQL? server is it?) although then thats the cost of microsoft access just my opinion Link to comment
me Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 Hmm... That's an annoying problem, but it can't really be 'fixed' because of all the common names. (I've run into 2 people using the name 'me' so far, so registering just wouldn't work). That, or the "wrong" person would be registered, like the copycat, and then you wouldn't be able to use the name, and you'd have to get someone to fix it up for you... Which would be too time-consuming Link to comment
SteadVéx Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 what if it was to use the forum's usernames? thats what i meant, so at least hte people who use the forum will have there names... although i'm thinking using theforums ones probably won't be easy Link to comment
Sillyhed2000 Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 I wouldn't worry about it that much. Most people are mature enough to not use your name, and if they aren't then just ignore them. They're obviously out to annoy, and if they don't get any reaction they'll probably go and annoy someone else. PS. Learn some better insults. Perhaps you should take a look at insults.net Link to comment
MasterEvilAce Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 I understand this is very annoying..But it's a hell of a job to add these user/password fields cause all nicks need to be registered etc etc.. Yeah, a few days before .2, some guy was using the name "IJs" and saying that he's part of the MTA team (obviously referring to you)... he kept saying he had to leave because he had to get back to testing MTA .2 Link to comment
Sutto Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 What if he got the name first and 'YOU' are the copycat? Link to comment
SM xenex Posted September 22, 2003 Author Share Posted September 22, 2003 Aperently Im being misunderstood,thank you all for your comments , but i wont be replying here anymore,altougth keep posting iff you think your opinion shoud be heard ,ill still check this thread. Link to comment
Guest Posted September 23, 2003 Share Posted September 23, 2003 Your all strange. lol jk having people to sign up is a bad idea because: A database would have to be maintained (lots of players = bigger database) and who pays for the website the db is hosted on. MTA crew does. Maintaining that DB would eat a lot of bandwidth (password reminders, signups, log-on's) What happens if the MTA site goes down? does that mean nobody can play MTA on ANY server? too many dependencies You never find a game where you log on to play unless its a game you pay for. A simpler idea is for the server to change the name. if 'foobar' exists then the new person is 'foobar2' Link to comment
Guest Posted September 23, 2003 Share Posted September 23, 2003 This is a ridiculous thread. His name is different to yours, you can have any name you want. If I want "Dave" as my name, even though my name is Matt, I'll have "Dave" same as if I want a random concoction of letters and numbers. Who are you to dictate what name people use? Link to comment
SM xenex Posted September 23, 2003 Author Share Posted September 23, 2003 (edited) Well you might be right ,this might be a ridiculous thread, but Im not gonna ask for it to be closed, i want people to put their commens, but Ill let the moderators decide iff its ridiculous enough that it should be closed. Edited September 23, 2003 by Guest Link to comment
Guest Posted September 23, 2003 Share Posted September 23, 2003 Don't start twisting my words, I did not call it stupid. I game online a lot and I'm a regular on several forums (although, not this one) and there's always someone whining about someone having a similar name. If there's a player called "Matt" and I'm playing as "Matt" he isn't going to tell me to change my name, same as if I call myself "dfhdfnbfbn". Could be coincidence. You are no more important than anyone else, I just don't think you have the right or the authority to tell people what name to have, that's all. Link to comment
SM xenex Posted September 23, 2003 Author Share Posted September 23, 2003 OK OK , sorry *me changes stupid to ridiculous* Link to comment
Guest Posted September 23, 2003 Share Posted September 23, 2003 ta off out now, lecture at 10 so I won't be replying til tonight if anything relevant pops up. Link to comment
Guest Posted September 23, 2003 Share Posted September 23, 2003 i dont think the system would take up to much bandwidth if the nickname system was set up like this.... whenever someone wants to change theyre name they enter the new name in mta client and it sends a request to the forums database to see if that nickname has been registered. If it hasnt then it assigns u that nickname. If it has then it asks for a password and once u give the password u have that nickname. once u have the nickname the client keeps it until u for whatever reason want to change it. once u want to change it then u enter the nick and the process repeats itself. The nicks that it would be checking are the ones in the mta forum btw.. so if u want ur unique nickname then it would have to be registered in the forums. It would be nice to know that person x that i talked to last time and got to be buddies with is the same person u know what i mean. If they dont have a unique nickname then it shouldn't be to hard for them to think of one... e.g. instead of dragon, they could have dragonx, dragon_lova, dragon_slaya theres infinite posiblities i dont think this would be that hard to implement(but what do i know) so i just thought i would post it as a suggestion and see what u guys think... but of course i realize that this isnt the biggest priority, its just that with ip addresses getting harder and harder to monitor that it would be nice to have the peace of mind that no one is going to enter a sm server under the name of SM-DeathB and start pissin the other members off and then i need to explain myself... because as much as we'd like to think that people are mature enough to not do stupid shit like that, ive heard of it being done. so i do think that there is a need for it at some point in the future. but of course we could live without it as it is ultimately up to the mta team. btw mta team- congrats on 0.2 i love it and xenex u might wanna clarify exactly what ur complaint is in ur first post... just a thought Link to comment
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