no way

That would be super cool, but coming from a devs point of view, that would make my life extremely difficult, and would be super un-logical.

Really?

The video is private?

The link doesn't work.
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This is going to cause me lot's of pain. Considering I am a server owner. Each player that I have banned by username could change their username like on nodus and come back onto my server? I would also have no idea who any of my players are. I admit I would like to change my username but this would stir up a lot of trouble with my fellow server owners. I don't like where this idea is going but meh.
-Chicken

I would love username changing!

mainly because when your a noob first making a Minecraft account

your focusing more on what is avalible as a username, and not what is actually good

A guy makes an account with some stupid random name, lets say... he can never take that back in the future when he wish he could change it

I vote this idea for a yes, yay!

....The site looks like one for a server or just a plain site with videos, not sure where to find the information if it's on there.......

Its cool, but still, unlogical. mabye servers will be able to get a email saying " so- and- so name is now this". But i feel its cool, but uneccesary. I will stick with my original name though, becouse that is my ideantity, iv had it since the end of the 1.3 fraction of Minecraft.

You know you can just post the youtube link instead of the link to the website, it would be way easier. Also for servers, changing your username will probably change your display name, which other people see but when you get banned it will ban your email. No matter what you change your name to you still are on that email login so you're still banned.

thats great but how do your friends know its you if you change your username im just gonna keep my username btw all you need to know is someones password to steal thier acoutn now!

This would be epic

Simple solution to it really. Have log in names and screen names. That way you shouldn't have to modify whitelists etc as you can keep the log in name there but the person is free to change their screen name to appear as whatever they want.

If this is true,itt would be easy to use.



When the update comes,your account is basicly changed so you use your email to login.Thus making it easy for server owners.So if you ban a guy called CHGUEN he will still be banned because the email that is part of his account is banned.

I've heard news of this before, saying that changeable names would be added in 1.5, this is what Jeb said,
"Adding a Steam name system for Minecraft." (Or something along those lines)
So, all you people complaining about people changing names to get back onto your server after you banned them, you'd just have to ban their Minecraft ID, and you'd be done with them.

this is really gonna screw up my server...everyone we banned was playername not ip.....goodbye server...

chickenslikepieEach player that I have banned by username could change their username like on nodus and come back onto my server?
-Chicken

I agree, that would suck for server owners, I think there should be a limit, like once a month or maybe even charge like on Xbox Live, but not too much, like $5, maybe even both to stop people from ruining the ban system. Or they could set an id for every name and when you ban them, it bans that id so that all bans will not change if you change your name. Either way, I'd like to see where this goes. Also it would be great if some people would BETA test my texture pack! http://www.planetminecraft.com/texture_pack/simplicitycraft-beta-v10/

WEBS. HONESTLY.

There are so many flaws in this idea.

For one, players would be able to rejoin servers, even after being banned.
This is the biggest issue, and they don't even know how they're going to get around it, yet. Great planning, Mojang.

Spammy name changes - Unless Mojang limits the number of changes (Which they've said nothing about), people will be able to go in and change their names multiple times, also being able to bypass any bans that've been made.

Decrease in available names - The names chosen have to be unique, meaning never chosen before. That means that for ever name change, there will be one less name someone will be able to use, when they buy Minecraft. You know what this will cause? Horribly retarded names. And this will happen the fastest. There are thousands of people out there who are going to rush into creating a new name.

Honestly, if Jeb puts this in, you can expect a lot of servers to either stay 1.5 for a very long time - Possibly forever, if nothing is implemented to send original game names to a server, when a player attempts to join - or to just shut down completely. Anyone who opposes this change should send emails, tweets, and IMs to Jeb, to get him to stop this bullhockey in it's tracks.



To anyone saying "IP ban them!":
NO. This will not work. IP bans do not do anything. They're less effective than a normal ban. Unless you are on a Static IP (And trust me, 99.99% of you ARE NOT) your IP changes every month or so on it's own. It also changes when your modem is disconnected from a power source. IP BANS ARE USELESS.

SilverKyttenThere are so many flaws in this idea.

For one, players would be able to rejoin servers, even after being banned.
This is the biggest issue, and they don't even know how they're going to get around it, yet. Great planning, Mojang.

Spammy name changes - Unless Mojang limits the number of changes (Which they've said nothing about), people will be able to go in and change their names multiple times, also being able to bypass any bans that've been made.

Decrease in available names - The names chosen have to be unique, meaning never chosen before. That means that for ever name change, there will be one less name someone will be able to use, when they buy Minecraft. You know what this will cause? Horribly retarded names. And this will happen the fastest. There are thousands of people out there who are going to rush into creating a new name.

Honestly, if Jeb puts this in, you can expect a lot of servers to either stay 1.5 for a very long time - Possibly forever, if nothing is implemented to send original game names to a server, when a player attempts to join - or to just shut down completely. Anyone who opposes this change should send emails, tweets, and IMs to Jeb, to get him to stop this bullhockey in it's tracks.



To anyone saying "IP ban them!":
NO. This will not work. IP bans do not do anything. They're less effective than a normal ban. Unless you are on a dynamic IP (And trust me, 99.99% of you ARE NOT) your IP changes every month or so on it's own. It also changes when your modem is disconnected from a power source. IP BANS ARE USELESS.

Very few people seem to understand that the accounts will have to have an unchanging id(either the email, an id number, or by making a screen name and a user name, with the username being non-changeable). Since people changing their name would free up their old name, that wouldn't actually affect anything. Also, this will be an update to accounts, not the game itself. It doesn't matter what version of the game you have, everyone will be affected.

ChrisLVery few people seem to understand that the accounts will have to have an unchanging id(either the email, an id number, or by making a screen name and a user name, with the username being non-changeable). Since people changing their name would free up their old name, that wouldn't actually affect anything. Also, this will be an update to accounts, not the game itself. It doesn't matter what version of the game you have, everyone will be affected.

Well ducks, you're right. -.- Didn't think about that. So no matter what, unless they make it so that a player sends their original name on joining, all bans that have been made will be completely void.

It doesn't matter if they create an ID or not - Yeah, that'd help for future bans. But what about all of the millions of old bans? Those are made on the original account name - Not account information - Just their name. Nothing will be stored to say that "so and so" is really "DarkDragons," and that they shouldn't be allowed on, because "DarkDragons" is a banned name on this server.


I'm pretty sure it wouldn't free up a name - That would mean that any bans made to a name would stay in place, and people would be unfairly banned from servers they've never been on, not to mention getting a bad reputation from the person who had the name before them. That just wouldn't work. Another thing to add to the list of flaws in this idea.


Not to mention the rewrite in codes for the way banning works. -.-

SilverKyttenThere are so many flaws in this idea.

For one, players would be able to rejoin servers, even after being banned.
This is the biggest issue, and they don't even know how they're going to get around it, yet. Great planning, Mojang.

Spammy name changes - Unless Mojang limits the number of changes (Which they've said nothing about), people will be able to go in and change their names multiple times, also being able to bypass any bans that've been made.

Decrease in available names - The names chosen have to be unique, meaning never chosen before. That means that for ever name change, there will be one less name someone will be able to use, when they buy Minecraft. You know what this will cause? Horribly retarded names. And this will happen the fastest. There are thousands of people out there who are going to rush into creating a new name.

Honestly, if Jeb puts this in, you can expect a lot of servers to either stay 1.5 for a very long time - Possibly forever, if nothing is implemented to send original game names to a server, when a player attempts to join - or to just shut down completely. Anyone who opposes this change should send emails, tweets, and IMs to Jeb, to get him to stop this bullhockey in it's tracks.



To anyone saying "IP ban them!":
NO. This will not work. IP bans do not do anything. They're less effective than a normal ban. Unless you are on a dynamic IP (And trust me, 99.99% of you ARE NOT) your IP changes every month or so on it's own. It also changes when your modem is disconnected from a power source. IP BANS ARE USELESS.

I think you mean STATIC IP, not DYNAMIC IP. XD

i think people would abuse it a lot idk we will see

iancarroll
I think you mean STATIC IP, not DYNAMIC IP. XD

Yes, I do. Thanks for catching that. Ranting causes errors -.-

Easy way to implement this

1. Assign each current and future Minecraft account with an ID#
2. Keep track of ID# with Mojang accounts, lookups, etc.

This will work like domains and IP addresses, the real number is the IP, but the username is the domain

3. When you ban someone, it bans their ID# rather than their username

Simple.

Also, I bet that they will either charge to change usernames, or limit it to something like 1 change per 6 months.


Not that hard, is it? Also it is NOT going to be with 1.6, in other words this change is separate from 1.6, it will simply release at the same time as 1.6. In other words, if you are running 1.5, or lower, it will still have this change.

Also servers probably could easily get a plugin so they can lookup previous names of a player. This is a great addition to Minecraft, and I cannot wait for it to be implemented.

I wonder......
-Changes name to Herobrine-