Long screenname = screen stretch

[Phytotron]

I'm not sure in what section this belongs, or even if it's something worth reporting, but, to whom and what it may concern:

[AI-team]

Just an admin who messed with the players name

[INW]

I noticed that as well when i went down the master list...the only way to do that is to use admin command to rename the player.

[Tank Program]

Epsy pointed it out on IRC and I fixed it so that the main page wouldn't hit that snafu any more. No idea how they got it happening in game to begin with though.

[Tobe]

It was the /admin RENAME command; makes long names possible. I, myself, mainly use it for color blended names. I could have sworn the server list filters out long names.

[Lord Pein]

You can also just use the PLAYER_X command to make your name stretch that long.

[dlh]

The RENAME command not respecting the screen name length limit was a bug, and has since been fixed (possibly over a year ago). Using the PLAYER_1 command still limits your screen name length. It's a limit that is enforced by the server. It will appear to work on your client, but the server actually truncated your name.

There is no length limit for your global ID.

[INW]

There is no length limit for your global ID.

I don't think you should have posted that...I can now see someones global ID being like 100 characters long in the near future...

[Lord Pein]

INW, there is a limit on the length of usernames on these forums, so there is a cap on how long global IDs can be for @forums at least.

[AI-team]

*cough* mazuffer *cough*