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Development => Bugs, Feature Requests, and Feedback => Official Feature Votes => Topic started by: Eiii on January 05, 2008, 06:21:33 PM

Title: Feature: Command to get all the names of a specified global ID number
Post by: Eiii on January 05, 2008, 06:21:33 PM
A number really isn't all that useful for identifying people in-game. This'd return all the names of a player given a global ID number or perhaps the player ID number in-game.
Title: Re: Feature: Command to get all the names of a specified global ID number
Post by: jitspoe on January 05, 2008, 06:35:26 PM
http://dplogin.com/dplogin/featurevote/feature.php?id=10011
Title: Re: Feature: Command to get all the names of a specified global ID number
Post by: sk89q on January 05, 2008, 06:38:58 PM
You can do the players command in the game on a server to get IDs.
Title: Re: Feature: Command to get all the names of a specified global ID number
Post by: Eiii on January 05, 2008, 06:41:49 PM
Yeah, but sometimes typing correctly 3 is easier than 6346. ;) The larger number might be difficult to catch if lots of chatting is going on, as well.
Title: Re: Feature: Command to get all the names of a specified global ID number
Post by: b00nlander on January 05, 2008, 08:21:28 PM
actually, it would be very (much more than you suggest) interesting to have an API to retrieve the player names from an ID from a PHP class (e.g. when implementing an AJAX call? or similar).  Would be cool to have some call to some URL that would return all player names that belong to the specified ID given in the call.

PS: me = drunk. sry for possible misunderstanding :D
Title: Re: Feature: Command to get all the names of a specified global ID number
Post by: i_am_a_pirate on March 11, 2008, 05:47:57 AM
jits, why did you vote -1 on it?
Title: Re: Feature: Command to get all the names of a specified global ID number
Post by: y00tz on March 11, 2008, 08:25:22 AM
It's an almost unnecessary feature just to curb the laziness of a few of us...
Title: Re: Feature: Command to get all the names of a specified global ID number
Post by: jitspoe on March 12, 2008, 03:50:00 AM
jits, why did you vote -1 on it?
Some people like to hop on a server just to play and be left alone, so they use an alternative (but registered) name.  If it becomes really easy to check what their other names are, then they may start playing without being logged in, register multiple accounts, etc.  I would prefer that people just use the login system the way it was meant to be used, so I rather not to implement features that might discourage that.
Title: Re: Feature: Command to get all the names of a specified global ID number
Post by: Garrett on March 12, 2008, 07:38:21 AM
I agree with that Jitspoe but once there are better bots, people might just play in a server with bots and not even play online.
Title: Re: Feature: Command to get all the names of a specified global ID number
Post by: toM|vendettA on March 13, 2008, 05:04:43 PM
I agree, that is a pain. I wrote a Java APP to handle this, it's  simple and to the point but will get messed up if jitspoe changes the HTML for player ID pages... you can download the .jar here, if you have java installed it should appear as an executable... http://loluploads.com/550680