1.7.6 name changing problem

When you said name change I thought you meant minecraft was changing its name...

 

Yes, but I knew and I think most people already knew about changing player names, I would it would be like steam where everything is bound to your original account name.

 

I doubt you would be able to change your username to one already in use, so this shouldn't be a problem.

 

No, we are not, we have plugins, however, that may require revision.

 

You can't change a name to one that is highly in use. You probably shouldn't change it at all until McBrawl supports name changing.

 

No, it won't. All they will do is allow you to change your name, it's up to developers to make plugins UUID dependent now so that way name changing won't break anymore.

 

First of all, it's going to be in 1.8, so we can expect late May.
@Mario and I already developed a ~100 line fix for this, pretty simple. Even when you change your name your UUID will stay the same, so you can track players that way

 

Code:

package me.Darkbro100.test; import org.bukkit.Bukkit; import org.bukkit.ChatColor; import org.bukkit.entity.Player; import org.bukkit.event.EventHandler; import org.bukkit.event.Listener; import org.bukkit.event.player.PlayerLoginEvent; import org.bukkit.event.player.PlayerLoginEvent.Result; import org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin; public class Main extends JavaPlugin implements Listener { public void onEnable() { Bukkit.getServer().getPluginManager().registerEvents(this, this); getConfig().options().copyDefaults(true); saveDefaultConfig(); } @EventHandler public void onPlayerJoin(PlayerLoginEvent e) { Player p = e.getPlayer(); if(getConfig().contains(p.getName())) { String uuid = getConfig().getString(p.getName()); Bukkit.broadcastMessage(p.getUniqueId().toString()); if(!p.getUniqueId().toString().equalsIgnoreCase(uuid)) { e.disallow(Result.KICK_OTHER, ChatColor.RED + "Your UUID does not match this player's original UUID!"); } } else { if(e.getResult() == Result.ALLOWED) { getConfig().set(p.getName(), p.getUniqueId().toString()); saveConfig(); } } } } 
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See what Grey said.
To clear it up...
Yes, you can change names. 1.7.6 provides support for it, but it is a 1.8 feature being added when enough people update to 1.8.
Even when you change your name, your UUID remains the same. So bans on a server won't be affected by name changes. And the coders of the community have created a quick fix, so we should be fine.

We don't use mods. If mods were used, our clients would need the mods too. We use plugins, which is why we're more limited with guns.

 

Name changing won't be a problem, your actual name will still be the same. The one you registered with @BrawlerAce_'s advice can help.

 

They probably haven't yet. Grey and I thought of it yesterday and coincidentally you made this post.

 

Most probably but also maybe due to the latest Ddos threats that managed to take down the host for a couple of hours ( which isn't nothing ).