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Hello, I've a problem with ddnet servers which refers to my name.
My name in game is //Alex\\ and I think that with the last update ddnet servers don't accept "/" character anymore. In fact when i enter in a ddnet server, a "(1)" appears before my name: (1)//Alex\\ . That's a big problem because i had a lot of points in ddnet as I completed a lot of maps in the past and I don't want to change my name or to restart all maps. Please fix this bug. Thanks <3

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by alot of points you mean like 350 ish This problem isnt getting fixed because the name with a "/" was the problem

stompie wrote:by alot of points you mean like 350 ish This problem isnt getting fixed because the name with a "/" was the problem

Oh, so you think that i should lose my 350+ points? Great... what a shitty method to fix problems -.-.. Maybe "350ish" are stupid for you but i spent a lot of time by finishing maps.
The reason of this? "Name with / should be forbidden because we can't write message to them without typing space" ... what the fuck are you talking about? If you can't write message, just don't write the message or you can use whisper system

The problem is that you can troll people with /. click on the link and maybe your points will be transferred to a new name.

Your only chance is to ask an admin to move your points to another name.

There is a possibility to troll people with renaming your self into commands like /kill. But as always DDNet's admins aren't willed to fix the real bugs, instead they force every player to make theirself fit to DDNet. It is pretty sad that they are so ignorant and egoistic.

I know that you use this name since years and that you are pretty known in the Foot scene, so I can totally understand that you want to keep your current name.

[A] Awesome wrote:The problem is that you can troll people with /. click on the link and maybe your points will be transferred to a new name.

Ok... but it's annoying to change my name every time i play ddnet. I'm an old player (from 0.5.2 version) and people know me with username //Alex\\ and changing it with "Alex" simply is not the best solution (also because there are a lot of other people playing with that name).
Then you could fix it by using a confirm system for command "/kill", if it already exist... i can't be the victim of the stupidity of other users.

The bigger problem was the command /timeout
(somebody disconnected people with a name like </timeout "me">)

And that's not all. What if we introduce another command in a few years and suddenly that can be abused as well? What if some attacker figures out that they can also use ; to concatenate commands and call themselves //Alex\\;timeout me? The exact rule for which names would be forbidden would end up rather complicated and prone to errors. Names starting with / are dangerous for a few reasons like that, and being unable to write to people is also annoying. I guess the proper solution would be not to have chat commands with /, but a separate system instead, like the consoles in F1 and F2. Changing that now would be hugely inconvenient though.

If someone can offer a better solution and someone can implement it, I bet everyone would be happier. (Maybe an alternative would be to rename the initial / to something else, like _ or \) My ingame name is also affected by this btw, since it also starts with /.