About name stealing

Discussion in 'Server Chat / Updates' started by Kit, Apr 6, 2016.

  1. Kit

    Kit New Member

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    I found the symbol that is being used for name stealing, "‏" (its in-between the quotes)
    I don't know much about how the chat works, but if you could grab the name, if it has that symbol and shares someone elses name, and append/prepend a (1) to it, you could stop name stealing.

    I don't know if this would work though.
     
  2. Teddi

    Teddi Well-Known Member Bear

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    With source there's way too many symbols that can be used to falsify names so it's not really possible to eliminate it for just one character. There is a feature inside our Admin system (though not enabled for Surf) that does have the capability to track these name changes however.
     
  3. Kaiden

    Kaiden Administrator Community Manager

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    Think it would just fall to the admins; if someone's impersonating you and trolling etc then we can act accordingly.