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FlightedRaven
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Posted: 7/1/2015 at 3:49 PM
Post #1
My username was supposed to be flightedRaven, but the system changed it to Flightedraven. It kinda bothers me, and I was wondering if there is a way to change it?
Krinadon
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Posted: 7/1/2015 at 3:59 PM
Post #2
I capitalized the 'R' for you. The 'F' has to be capitalized though since it's the first character of the Username.
FlightedRaven
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Posted: 7/1/2015 at 4:01 PM
Post #3
Okay, thanks! :) Looks better now, hehe.
SpaceElf1
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Posted: 7/4/2015 at 2:30 PM
Post #4
Krin is nice like that. This is the only pet-based game I know of where the admins will alter your player name if it didn't come out quite the way you meant it to (says the person who accidentally signed up as "Spaceelf1").
BTW, your King and Queen of Ice project looks, if you'll pardon the expression, cool. I may have some Zolnixies that you could breed yours to in order to advance the project. Feel free to PM me about it if you like.
Krinadon
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Posted: 7/4/2015 at 11:46 PM
Post #5
It actually is restricted to only having the first character capitalized and none others. We do this so that we don't end up with usernames like WEEEEEEEEEjasdfjasdo or something obnoxious. Or like... "IIllllIIlII", etc.
Since we don't really have issues with usernames like "MrBob" or whatever, we just simply change it for players upon request. But there's really no automatic way to filter this and per request is much easier than sitting there accepting or denying every single submission.
Taptothebeat
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Posted: 7/5/2015 at 2:28 AM
Post #6
A possibly filter could be:
- Allow X capital letters besides the first one.
- Last character in the name cannot be capitalized
- Allow no less than Y number of characters between capital letters.
An example, take X=1, Y=2.
Would make it so, AAaaa, AaAaaa and AaaaaaaA are not allowed. But AaaAa is allowed.
It feels like a lot of cases are changing just one letter due to joining two separate words, so seems like this would reduce your workload, without really allowing "bad" usernames to appear. The smaller the X and larger the Y, the smaller the risk.
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Edit: There could also be a restriction the longest length of a character repeated.
For example, let the longest length to be 3.
Would make it so, Aaaaa, Abaaaabc, etc. are not allowed, but Aaaa and Abaaab are allowed.
Easy to modify to count capital letters as repeats as well. String's toLowerCase should work. Then just use the same idea. In this case, Aaaa would not be allowed, but Aaa would.
Edited By Taptothebeat on 7/5/2015 at 2:38 AM.
Krinadon
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Posted: 7/5/2015 at 3:28 AM
Post #7
Yep, that's a very plausible solution that we may implement with the revamp (or if the Site grows larger and we start getting hundreds of sign ups per day) - but atm we'll probably just keep the current set up lol.
Taptothebeat
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Posted: 7/5/2015 at 11:20 AM
Post #8
Awesome! Also, I hope you guys get 100's of signups per day~ That would be wonderful. c:
Krinadon
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Posted: 7/5/2015 at 1:42 PM
Post #9
Hehe. Yes it would. =P
JustTopaz
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Posted: 7/14/2015 at 3:21 AM
Post #10
If it's no trouble could you change mine as well? It was Originally JustTopaz. I wouldn't bother you but the small double 't' looks kinda silly.
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