Removing Akward Player Names

[eyestrain92]

Fix'd my original problem. Now I have a slightly different minor issue. Whenever I picked a player name, it would create another player name with only the first three letters of the name I typed in. How do I remove names from the player list when in skirmish mode? Hell, when I'm beginning the game, at the screen where you can ready, it also cuts my name down to three letters.

[Buginator]

Fix'd my original problem. Now I have a slightly different minor issue. Whenever I picked a player name, it would create another player name with only the first three letters of the name I typed in. How do I remove names from the player list when in skirmish mode? Hell, when I'm beginning the game, at the screen where you can ready, it also cuts my name down to three letters.

What version of warzone is this?

Can you tell me *exactly* how/when this happens? Are you using all ASCII characters? We don't have full UTF-8 support in the edit boxes, and I don't think you can use certain symbols in your name either (must obey rules of the filesystem).

I tried some tests in the latest version (trunk), and tried really long names and all was fine.

The .sta files are in your config directory.

as in, the names I tried are the names you see below, in the directory you see...

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..\multiplay\players\abcde1234567890.sta
..\multiplay\players\Terminator.sta
..\multiplay\players\testinglongname.sta
..\multiplay\players\yetanothertest.sta
..\multiplay\players\stillanothertes.sta

[Purple Monkey]

I get this too with beta4, "PurpleMonkey" becomes "Pur", no unusual characters.

When I start I'm Pur.


Then I select PurpleMonkey:

Then Open the game:

Back to Pur, reselect PurpleMonkey:


And still Pur ingame:

(photobucket resized it but it's still 3 letters)

XPsp3 no MODs

[Buginator]

Hmm, I tried both trunk & 2.1 (though, not beta 4) and I couldn't get it to do that.
I tried both skirmish & MP games, and it still worked OK for me.

I guess it was fixed, but I don't see where it was fixed in beta 4.

[Purple Monkey]

Well I complied the latest SVN (r5839) and it works fine, so I can confirm that.

[Army Unit]

It dose that for me too, in Beta 4. I typed in Battle Cat 1 (my clan name) And it said "Bat".

P.S.My first post!!

[skellr]

Hi Bat!

[Army Unit]

Hi Bat!

HA! HA! very funny (please don't call me bat )

[Rellik420]

I too get the 3 letter name showing up in Beta 4. I used several different names and they all did it.

[Buginator]

Erm, don't mean to be rude or anything, but ...

Well I complied the latest SVN (r5839) and it works fine, so I can confirm that.

Let this thread die, and *if* you have issues with beta 5, then post again.