Greetings, So I have been reading today about how Mojang is going to start allowing people to change their minecraft names. I am curious to how this is going to affect ECC. Will this increase scam potential? Will this be easier/harder for staff to deal with ban appeals? Will this affect donations "nick"? Will ECC be changing Forum acct names to match? Just curious as to the thoughts from the community. Do you look forward to being able to change your Minecraft name? How will this affect ECC, if there is an effect?
I see how this could interfere with some things on ecc but I would love to be able to change my name tbh
As far as I remember, Andrew said that we will not support the name change. That means if you change your name, you are reverted back to builder/lose your donation features, etc. (unless that has changed as of recent)
Im not sure if you keep your ranks and donation features but I do know it would be impossible to bypass a ban. As your player name has a player id value hidden within it. When you connect to a server it connects with that hidden value. According to phoenix that value has been there since almost forever. My question is, if the player id works for trying to bypass bans wouldn't it be able to keep your ranks and donations.
That would be a major let-down to a majority of this server. People enjoy ECC and love playing here, but I'm sure many would love to change their name... Myself included. If this personal ID works as vengfulbacon says, then why couldn't it be integrated? I understand thats a bit of work, but its the Dev team's job to at least keep up with Mojang's updates. We've seen this already with the enchanting overhaul. I feel if it doesn't work out to carry over name changes, many will be very displeased when choosing between their name, or their stuff.
It seems to me that the simplest way to avoid all this confusion for people is merely to think long and hard prior to creating an account in the first place. I for one agree with Andrew that this will only lead to disorganization and a frenzied mess so it should not be permitted. If you want to be seen with a new name, get nickname. Besides, I already have the most kicka-- name on here anyways so it wouldn't do me any good.
https://help.mojang.com/customer/portal/articles/928638-minecraft-usernames From what i've seen it shows that the update will be automatic to making the banlist and all that to uuid base. Im not sure if this can even be removed like the enchanting system was. If andrew was really gonna deny changing usernames then he probably just wont give their donations and ranks back.
I for one would like a name change as I made this account before I came up with the username I go by now. It is rather unfortunate though that Andrew will more than likely stick to his guns about not supporting these name changes.
From Mojang.com Directly: " 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." This should indicate that it shouldn't matter and all SHOULD stay the same, donations, ranks, etc. As for forum names, i'm assuming you'd have to get that personally changed, whether or not Andrew wants to do that is his choice.
