Player Name Changes?

[Hambeau]

Coming soon to a Vanilla Minecraft near you:

https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/521968228781006848

 

[Hoff]

Belief comes following action.

 

[Hambeau]

Belief comes following action.

Are you saying "Seeing is Believing" ?

 

[buggirlexpres]

He says in one of the tweets below that pre-1.7.9 servers will treat the new names as entirely new players.

New inventory, new whitelist, and most importantly, new bans. That seems a little terrifying, that people can evade bans like that.

 

[Hoff]

Are you saying "Seeing is Believing" ?

Haha something along those lines.

He says in one of the tweets below that pre-1.7.9 servers will treat the new names as entirely new players.

New inventory, new whitelist, and most importantly, new bans. That seems a little terrifying, that people can evade bans like that.

IPs never lie.

 

[jordsta95]

people can evade bans like that.

It won't give them that possibility as a ban NOW works by banning the UID (User ID) associated with any player that has logged onto the server with that name.

For example (if my UID was 12gh):
I log into a server and get banned
The server bans looks at the players' name, and bans the UID 12gh
I change my username, but my UID is still 12gh, so I can't log in
But if someone changed their username to my old one, they would log in... but it is likely they would get banned by the admin/mod/owner would ban that player


This idea has been implemented since 1.7 (I think)

 

[buggirlexpres]

It won't give them that possibility as a ban NOW works by banning the UID (User ID) associated with any player that has logged onto the server with that name.

For example (if my UID was 12gh):
I log into a server and get banned
The server bans looks at the players' name, and bans the UID 12gh
I change my username, but my UID is still 12gh, so I can't log in
But if someone changed their username to my old one, they would log in... but it is likely they would get banned by the admin/mod/owner would ban that player


This idea has been implemented since 1.7 (I think)

1.7.9, according to the tweet. But unless everyone does IP bans, all servers running versions below that will be affected by the new name changes

 

[Hambeau]

It won't give them that possibility as a ban NOW works by banning the UID (User ID) associated with any player that has logged onto the server with that name.

For example (if my UID was 12gh):
I log into a server and get banned
The server bans looks at the players' name, and bans the UID 12gh
I change my username, but my UID is still 12gh, so I can't log in
But if someone changed their username to my old one, they would log in... but it is likely they would get banned by the admin/mod/owner would ban that player


This idea has been implemented since 1.7 (I think)

I think the tweet is saying that versions of MC prior to the one in which UIDs were implemented a name change won't be recognized as the same player, thus white/black lists won't function... On older version servers, if you had access on a Whitelist server as "X" and change your name to "Y" you lose access, and if you were banned on an otherwise open server as "M" and change your name to "Q" you would regain access, although you won't have any inventory, etc.