Potential planet name exploit...
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:12 pm
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.
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.