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Potential planet name exploit...

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:12 pm
by ReaverKing
forgive me if this has already been posted to death, but I felt this was an urgent matter requiring a fix as soon as possible...

Certain players are renaming their planets to blank strings, or at the very least, strings containing only spaces or possibly "blank" ASCII characters.

this enables them to have multiple planets with no visible prescence in the drop down except "fourth from the bottom" and potential attackers have no Idea of even the size of the drop-down for planetary invasions except that the "attack" button MIGHT disappear. while it would be an obvious (and common) occurance for planets to have identical, or similar, names to confuse potential attackers, blank strings are certainly SOME form of cheating. I have begun writing down names of players doing this, and will transfer this list if the administration requests.

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:15 pm
by Rukia
similar to the guy with the ingame name that is blank?

Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 4:57 pm
by seanet1310
i am a person doing this and i cant see a reason to y it is cheating could you please post a rule relating to planet names for me to see your point of view?. i do it becase the names of the planets are enoying me on my comand screen if this was illegal ill jsut go to all calling my planets 'a' or 'aaa' or something like that wich shourly can not be called illegal

Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 6:39 pm
by AtP
I agree with seanet1310. You can't just make up rules because you think it would be fair. (Even if you happen to be right) Even so, the admins should first and foremost send a general message if they wanted ppl to put actual names to planets before making any list.

Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 7:37 pm
by WhiteyDude
Just for reference (to be used by any hat colours): http://www.lookuptables.com/




/Whitey

Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 8:48 pm
by seanet1310
by that fact nthing has hapend or been posted here in months i would say u must be rong ReaverKing and it is not against any rule

Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:36 pm
by [SGC_ReplicĂ…tors]
ASCII my foot i use a space bar lol

Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:15 pm
by Come_Forth
I like it when people have blank names for planets because it is more of a challenge and having to count a few blank spaces is not that hard.....

Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:58 pm
by amadkiwi
I did have blank name planets, but now I use them to threaten anyone that attacks me :D

Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 3:40 am
by Dark Phoenix
yep, threaten people and ask for officers :D