So, I was looking around Minecraftforum.net and I saw this. If you guys have questions about name changes, Dinnerbone has basically answered it all Dinnerbone said: If I ban a player “Foo” and he changes name to “Bar”, will he stay banned? Yes. Same for whitelisted players and oped players. They also keep their inventory, pets, statistics and everything they own on a server. Can I steal somebody’s name? Can I call myself “Dinnerbone” too? No. I am Dinnerbone and names are still unique. You cannot have the same name as another player, they will have to change their name for you to be able to take it. How will this work with mods? What about my custom stuff on this one modded server? Ask your mod maker/server owner. They should be able to support this system easily, but we aren’t responsible for mods or servers! Can I already change my name? Where do I go? Will it cost? How often can I do it? We will enable name changing when we feel that enough users are using 1.8 or higher, so that servers have time to switch to the new player formats. We do not have any details on how name changes will be performed or any restrictions that will be required to actually perform a name change. We want it to be easy and freely available, but we also don’t want people changing their name every 5 minutes! So where do I change my name? Read the previous answer! I’m a server owner, what do I have to do when I update to 1.7.6? Nothing, really. The server will update itself, but it’s entirely possible that it may require your input if it finds an issue (nonexistant players, for example). If your server fails to start then check the log, otherwise it’s ready to play! Is this compatible with 1.7.5? No, sorry. We had to change the protocol to support the new player formats. I’m scared. I need a hug. Aww, here you go little guy. *hug* Don’t worry, it’s not as scary as it sounds.
After reading this I wonder how many people will change there name to either Jeb_ or Dinnerbone with slight changes to their name, also who here will change their name to noobcrew or CypriotMerks.
I too agree that many people will troll with the name changes, but it needs to be added because many people have complained about having a lower case letter in their name instead of a capital. (For example; "sooperaya" not "Sooperaya").
Well in the original post Dinnerbone said But I think people will change one letter to uppercase or add a number in to allow it. It should be fun to see how many people change their name.
Numbers, maybe. Uppercase, no. I am pretty sure usernames aren't case sensitive so: "pokemaniac01" would be the same username to Mojang as: "Pokemaniac01".
Yeah i agree with you pokemanic01, most systems now just read uppercase and lowercase now as the same so as to stop same names entering a database. If I was going to be Noobcrew I would do it like this: N00bCrew.
Notcrew Man, the possible issues with this are bit worrying, but I assume anything that could be changed with a youtubers name has already been taken.
