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Aett_Thorn

By Aett_Thorn,
Posted on: 2011-08-11 24:00 in Player Questions

 

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Guys, take a look at the original date of this thread. This thread was massively necro'd.

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Originally Posted by Aggelakis View Post
Interesting. No, it looks like all VIPs were swapped over to gold by default, but there is an option to turn off the gold. So it's the other way around (and most folks seem too lazy to do anything).
The option does nothing. I just switched myself to a white name three times, and every time I came back to this thread, my name was still gold. White = Free/Premium, Gold = VIP.

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(Occasionally freebies will see themselves as gold name, which allows them to post in non-access places, when the account server doesn't sync up correctly to the forum.)
I suspect that that's somehow related to whatever code is forcing me back to a goldname every time I switch to white.

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EDIT: Best way to see if VIP or free/preem: click their name and see if you can PM them. Only VIPs can get PMs.
A free player that's displaying as a goldname IS a VIP (as far as the forum is concerned). If they had an avatar and/or signature before they went Premium, those come back, and the PM system is temporarily made available to them, just like how they're given access to forum sections that they shouldn't have.

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Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn View Post
Guys, take a look at the original date of this thread. This thread was massively necro'd.
Yes, that was covered several posts back. However, some people have been answering the new guy who necro'd is, and others have been partaking in the new discussion that has arisen.

But not for long. Mod 13 should be here to shut things down in a few hours.

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Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn View Post
Guys, take a look at the original date of this thread. This thread was massively necro'd.
True but the guy that necro'd the thread had a valid question. Might as well answer it.

 

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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
From what the devs told us we don't have control over the color of our forum names.
Didn't catch that update. Do remember having to come in and manually change the name display color, presumably prior to that.

Edit: also assuming that I trust their update to have automatically fixed that for everyone. I do not.

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Originally Posted by Bloodspeaker View Post
Didin't catch that update. Do remember having to come in and manually change the name display color, presumably prior to that.

Edit: also assuming that I trust their update to have automatically fixed that for everyone. I do not.
I don't trust them either, but it seems to have accomplished it's intended purpose.

I never touched the settings that would change the color of my forum handle, but it's been goldenrod since one of their updates.

Oddly enough, I don't think the first attempt (possibly two) actually changed the color, I think it was a later attempt that set it.

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Originally Posted by Roderick View Post
The option does nothing. I just switched myself to a white name three times, and every time I came back to this thread, my name was still gold. White = Free/Premium, Gold = VIP.
Interesting. I switched it and my name flipped to white in the welcome blurbs up top, I figured it would stay white when posting, but the gold looks good with my forum style edits so I changed it back before coming back to the post so all I had was the confirmation that my name went white. Huh. Wonder what's up with that then.

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A free player that's displaying as a goldname IS a VIP (as far as the forum is concerned). If they had an avatar and/or signature before they went Premium, those come back, and the PM system is temporarily made available to them, just like how they're given access to forum sections that they shouldn't have.
It is astoundingly unlikely to ever catch someone else with a gold name who is actually a freebie, since the account service checks periodically (maybe on each cookie check?) and reverts them to white. It typically takes as little as opening a thread to kick them back to white.

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Originally Posted by Bloodspeaker View Post
Didn't catch that update. Do remember having to come in and manually change the name display color, presumably prior to that.

Edit: also assuming that I trust their update to have automatically fixed that for everyone. I do not.
Well I can't and won't speak for everyone but I recall trying to change colors a while back to white but the system at that time wouldn't let me. Since then I've gotten used to the baby poo color.