changing the capital "i" and lower case "L" fonts for tracking

Discussion in 'Closed' started by Fr0zen, May 22, 2020.

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what do you lovely people think would be the most readable format for ~mapowner

  1. making all the "i" be shown in lower case only, while "L" is shown in upper case only

    8 vote(s)
    34.8%
  2. names to be in purely lower case

    10 vote(s)
    43.5%
  3. names to be purely in upper case

    2 vote(s)
    8.7%
  4. others: please give a suggestion so that we can bring justice to hackers effectively

    3 vote(s)
    13.0%
  1. Fr0zen
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    Fr0zen Well-Known Member

    recently there has been an increase in the number of hackers and whatnot and they seem to be doing some new tactics on avoiding tracked
    one of them is to use the capital "i" and lower case "L" in their names to avoid getting tracked
    say an example name of iLiLiiiLLi or something (this is just an example)
    there is no way in hell i can try out all the thousands of permutations to find this one
    unless RNG gives me power to get it right on the first try but it would be more likely for me to +7 a perfect item in one go

    so i would suggest either changing the fonts the game uses to allow the capital "i" to be more distinct from the lower case "L"
    or to change the spacing between the letters like capitals have more margins on the left and right to allow better identification
    or to disallow the capital "i" from the use in names

    i know it might be a huge undertaking for the staff and community but it might be a small price to pay to stop these hackers from running rampant

    edit 1:
    thinking about it for awhile but is it possible to make mapowner invert only the capital "i" to show "i" and the lower case "L" to show "L"?
    or making all the mapowner tracks all upper or all lower case only?

    what do yall peeps from the community think? (poll added)
     
    Last edited: May 22, 2020
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  2. Dave Deviluke
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    Dave Deviluke Forum Moderator

    I think it's better to disable the creation of IGNs when the player enters alphabet i or L more than 3 times

    Not sure is it possible for Staff to change the font in the current game client
     
  3. Matt
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    Matt Administrator

    I think we would just need to make the mapowner command show the name in a readable format? That sounds a lot less game changing than suggestions to change it for everything.
     
  4. Fr0zen
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    Fr0zen Well-Known Member

    sounds great and btw i found a few hackers using some new tactics
    gonna send up a report abuse shortly with a couple of videos and the details
     
    Last edited: May 22, 2020
  5. Fr0zen
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    Fr0zen Well-Known Member

    bump for poll on how to make mapowner display better
     
  6. Gert
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    Gert GM

    I like the idea of showing it all in lowercase, when I used to make reports, I would put all the letters in lowercase so that staff would have an easier time looking at it.
     
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  7. TastyArrows
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    TastyArrows Well-Known Member

    Omg yes please, this would make things so much easier :love:
     
  8. Tect
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    Tect Well-Known Member

    I notice this was implemented in the most recent server check :p
    upload_2020-5-25_22-55-4.png
     
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  9. Dave Deviluke
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    Dave Deviluke Forum Moderator

    What about weird IGNs such as wwwvvwwwv
     
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  10. blengend
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    blengend Well-Known Member

    and also, m and rn (Rn) looks the same in game
     
  11. Tect
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    Tect Well-Known Member

    @rnuse :(
     
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  12. Fr0zen
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    Fr0zen Well-Known Member

  13. Fr0zen
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    Fr0zen Well-Known Member

    knowing that spaces are not allowed to be used for character names
    is it possible to have names in mapowner track to be spelled with spaces between letters to counter these names?

    unlike the i and L ambiguity, the v and w works in both the upper and lower cases so vv and w can be used to confuse tracking (though possible to check the small spaces in mapowner), and should be handled differently

    gonna get an
    a e s t h e t i c
    look
     
    Last edited: May 25, 2020
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  14. Halkye
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    Halkye Well-Known Member

    actually if you look very closely, you can notice a slight difference, also vv and w have a small difference in game too. Its bad but it's not impossible like i's and l's :(
    Edit: sorry i didn't read all the discussion. This change to ~mapowner is AMAZING, thank you so much!
     
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  15. rnuse
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    rnuse Donator

    ooft :(
     
  16. Ohad
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    Ohad Donator

    Can u make it clickable so u can copy it?
     
  17. Tect
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    Tect Well-Known Member

    btw i just found this featuring @hfrn
    upload_2020-5-27_15-34-19.png
     
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  18. LichWiz
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    LichWiz Well-Known Member

    "new tactics" lul

    I've seen these hackers use these igns for over a year XD

    Glad to see a fix got implemented so quickly <3
     
  19. Fr0zen
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    Fr0zen Well-Known Member

    rarely saw hackers until the lockdowns began

    then again the L and i tactics were used back in the oldschool days to counter pq tracks lel
    idk why the few hackers that i did catch before the lockdowns didn't use them
     
  20. Bella
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    Bella Donator

    ^ I've seen other servers do this. If we change the actual formatting of player names I will cry. ~f4
     

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