Differing Globals

I have seen this happen on more than one occasion, and did lead to a case of mistaken identity some time ago. Globals! Now this isn't a case of 'oh the global server is down' yada yada yada, because its happened over years and consistantly.

Basically, its this.

I see global name in channel, I join team. I right click the person its supposed to be, but the global is different. Puzzled I right click name in chat , its still this different global. However i right click person to request global, its the original one, different to the edit box I just opened O.O I took a screen shot but I don't think i can post it on the forums. These people aren't in my global lists either, So.....

What the heck did I just look at?? How does someone end up with 2 different globals?

To be specific....

1) Are you using the "Add Note" box to check the global handle?
(Edit: the add not window also shows character names right below the global handle. You may have read the information and mistook a character name for the global.)

2) Are you absolutely sure it was the same person every time you checked the global handle?

3) Did you also use the /getglobalname function?


The only possible idea I have is that this person is somebody you encountered before(or maybe never encountered and it is just a server snaffu) who has changed their global handle since they started, after you met them, and maybe the Add Note window is displaying their old global handle instead of the new.

yes I was using add note and get global name,each gave me different results to the same character that was right in front of me. I did a bit of quizzing and I do believe it was because the global was changed. Question is still, why are they different? what in this game isn't updating?

Would it still be lag if they changed their global 6 months ago and its still coming up differently? I hear what you are saying though, that the game would keep track of such things.