He wasn't playing the game. He was just threre to mess around on Fedcomm.

As always direct and to the point!

Ah. I can see how that would be annoying. Never trust Fedcomm, eh?

Private hails also truncate the sender's name, but they are introduced with the full name. If helpers don't pick up on this, well, their bad.

By that logic, how can you trust a player who exploits minor bugs? I know it's just names, but that's just the start. What else might you abuse?

That issue has been around for a long time along with other spoofs. Traitor did a nice writeup on some of them. If you write scripts, you need to know how to handle spoofing. Spoofing is part of the game that you have to be aware of.

               / Promethius / Enigma / Wolfen /

"A man who has no skills can be taught, a man who has no honor has nothing."

I honestly didn't think anyone would object. No-one else is actually using an alias, they just logged in with fake handles instead.

Uh, bug vs feature? This is just an opening for mild
mischief, not serious exploitation. It should be an
option, not 'fixed.'

Much ado about nothing. I'm far more disturbed by the
fact that a sysop altered a running game in progress to
'fix things.' Having an alias is part of the game.

Knew it was you... asking for others to write you a macro to help beat us...lol...

Maybe some truth... i like being there from the start... but just excuses... i'll go back to my turn games where i belong...

It's a simple fix code wise. do not allow names that have the same first 6 letters. Then it can't be done. You all have a tendency to over think things

In a game at ice 9...i used General Zod and there was also a General Disarray....General Dissarray created a script and sent it to me that put a GZ in front of eventhing i typed on Fed and a GD in front of everything he said... but this was a friendly building game... name selection wasnt intentional...

I think spoofing will be fixed soon.

You also have to ignore spaces in the first 6 letters.

It will have to include filtering out all in-game messages from Fedcomm. I've seen the "blasts off", "deployed fighters", "is powering up" spoofs tried and with some scripts they actually worked.

               / Promethius / Enigma / Wolfen /

"A man who has no skills can be taught, a man who has no honor has nothing."

If you just don't allow the same in the first 6 'characters' then you won't have to do anything with the rest of the game.

The game has always attempted to limit players from having names that can appear to be other players on the comms. It's been a known issue going back to the earliest days of TWv3. Unfortunately, at this point it no longer works. I will fix it.