Players on the same server with the same name
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Aggelakis,
Posted on: 2012-04-07 12:30 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Not an exploit, the names are diffrent in some way.
Post an example and we can show you how it's done.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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Indeed. What you're seeing is hardly new... there was someone... I don't *believe* they were on virtue, but I could be wrong - who multiboxed. Severely. With Illusion controllers. I don't remember what the name was - it was "illusion" something - and they all had the "same" name, but doing just what Neko's saying - switching the Is and Ls and the like. So you'd have Illusion, IlIusion, IIlusion, IIIusion, I1Iusion, I11usion, Il1sion, etc. (I don't recall if they had 1s in there or not - I believe there were some I/L or O/0 substitutions in the second name, too.)
Other set teams/supergroups have done the same thing.
It's just a matter of finding the name(s) you want that work with it.
If you're *really* curious as to what's being substituted, either a /whoall while they're in the zone (with chat logged,) or right clicking and rating the players will tell you what they're doing. Either way, take the log or playernotes.txt file and just capitalize everything. You should then be able to see the 0/1, I/L/|/etc. much more clearly. (You may actually be able to pick up on it without the capitalization, depending on font.)
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It's either that or something similar.
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Originally Posted by Xieveral
As of late, I've seen twins running around with the same names. Its not the l/I trick or alt codes...
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Paragon City Search And Rescue
The Mentor Project
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That wasn't "someone", it was a large number of "someones", Parallel Illusion was a very popular supergroup on Triumph for a while. Some of us have ours still.|
Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Indeed. What you're seeing is hardly new... there was someone... I don't *believe* they were on virtue, but I could be wrong - who multiboxed. Severely. With Illusion controllers. I don't remember what the name was - it was "illusion" something - and they all had the "same" name, but doing just what Neko's saying - switching the Is and Ls and the like. So you'd have Illusion, IlIusion, IIlusion, IIIusion, I1Iusion, I11usion, Il1sion, etc. (I don't recall if they had 1s in there or not - I believe there were some I/L or O/0 substitutions in the second name, too.)
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It was all about the I/l switch, no 1s involved.
Paragon Wiki: http://www.paragonwiki.com
City Info Terminal: http://cit.cohtitan.com
Mids Hero Designer: http://www.cohplanner.com
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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There was an entire SG of people who all used the name Parallel Illusion. With all those I's and L's, that's a lot of possible names.
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Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
So you'd have Illusion, IlIusion, IIlusion, IIIusion, I1Iusion, I11usion, Il1sion, etc. (I don't recall if they had 1s in there or not - I believe there were some I/L or O/0 substitutions in the second name, too.)
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Paragon City Search And Rescue
The Mentor Project
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I do remember hearing of "a" someone who did the same thing, though, as a massive multibox (COH players with multiple accounts? Never! >.>) - and yeah, with illusion. I'm probably blending the two in memory, though.
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Originally Posted by Aggelakis
That wasn't "someone", it was a large number of "someones", Parallel Illusion was a very popular supergroup on Triumph for a while. Some of us have ours still.
It was all about the I/l switch, no 1s involved. |
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This. The way the name database is coded, it's literally not possible for 2 characters to have the exact same name with no tricky differences such as the L/i switch.
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Originally Posted by Sapphic_Neko
Not an exploit, the names are diffrent in some way.
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Virtue Server
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Originally Posted by Aggelakis
That wasn't "someone", it was a large number of "someones", Parallel Illusion was a very popular supergroup on Triumph for a while. Some of us have ours still.
It was all about the I/l switch, no 1s involved. |
Sounds like a lot of fun... finally a way to play Simons
Thelonious Monk
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Didnt Exalted get some players witht he exact same name due to so many logging in at once?
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Originally Posted by Tyger42
This. The way the name database is coded, it's literally not possible for 2 characters to have the exact same name with no tricky differences such as the L/i switch.
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BrandX Future Staff Fighter
The BrandX Collection
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I've heard that too from a couple threads/people.|
Originally Posted by BrandX
Didnt Exalted get some players witht he exact same name due to so many logging in at once?
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Hard thing to prove and organise a screen shot for.
I don't suffer from altitis, I enjoy every minute of it.
Thank you Devs & Community people for a great game.
So sad to be ending ):
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I may actually *have* said screen shot. I'd have to look. (A friend and I were both trying to reserve another friend's name, since she was having some issue trying to log on... surprisingly *cough.*) |
Originally Posted by tanstaafl
I've heard that too from a couple threads/people.
Hard thing to prove and organise a screen shot for. |
Note that we'd coordinated after to try and see if it could happen again - couldn't get it to.
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Awesome, thanks.|
Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
I may actually *have* said screen shot. I'd have to look. (A friend and I were both trying to reserve another friend's name, since she was having some issue trying to log on... surprisingly *cough.*)
Note that we'd coordinated after to try and see if it could happen again - couldn't get it to. (img snip) |
I wondered if the difference in caps mattered - I know it shouldn't but...
I don't suffer from altitis, I enjoy every minute of it.
Thank you Devs & Community people for a great game.
So sad to be ending ):
It does. SIREN is not the same as Siren, as far as the game is concerned.
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Bramphousian, BRAMPHOUSIAN and bramphousian are the same as far as the game is concerned.
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Originally Posted by Stunrunner
It does. SIREN is not the same as Siren, as far as the game is concerned.
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Thank you, Champion.
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I also just tried this with capitalization variants of some of my more unusual names, and none of them passed.
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Originally Posted by Bramphousian
Bramphousian, BRAMPHOUSIAN and bramphousian are the same as far as the game is concerned.
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'I don't like the look of it at all,' said the King: 'however, it may kiss my hand if it likes.'
'I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked.
'Don't be impertinent,' said the King, 'and don't look at me like that!' He got behind Alice as he spoke.
'A cat may look at a king,' said Alice.
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Ahhh, Parallel Illusion.|
Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
I don't remember what the name was - it was "illusion" something - and they all had the "same" name, but doing just what Neko's saying - switching the Is and Ls and the like. So you'd have Illusion, IlIusion, IIlusion, IIIusion, I1Iusion, I11usion, Il1sion, etc. (I don't recall if they had 1s in there or not - I believe there were some I/L or O/0 substitutions in the second name, too.)
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Good times.
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Originally Posted by Stunrunner
It does. SIREN is not the same as Siren, as far as the game is concerned.
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Incorrect.
You can /t Memphis Bill, MEMPHIS BILL, memphis bill, MeMpHiS BiLl, MEMphIs BiLL, etc. and they'll all go to my character. And if you try using any of those names (even though mine's only capitalized as a proper name - first letter of each word,) you'll get "Name is in use." (Yes, I have different versions of me everywhere.)
Therefore, the game does not consider case.
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*heh* i was going to post that the game's naming system is not case sensitive, but you beat me to it. Oh well.
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Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Incorrect.
You can /t Memphis Bill, MEMPHIS BILL, memphis bill, MeMpHiS BiLl, MEMphIs BiLL, etc. and they'll all go to my character. And if you try using any of those names (even though mine's only capitalized as a proper name - first letter of each word,) you'll get "Name is in use." (Yes, I have different versions of me everywhere.) Therefore, the game does not consider case. |
Dr. Todt's theme.
i make stuff...
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Well, unfortunately, "Siren", the name, is blocked. It's been on the Blocked List for quite some time, if not forever. And it doesn't matter how you capitalize it.
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Originally Posted by Stunrunner
It does. SIREN is not the same as Siren, as far as the game is concerned.
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Which is odd... because the Marvel character by that name spells it "Siryn."
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Originally Posted by Yogurt
Well, unfortunately, "Siren", the name, is blocked. It's been on the Blocked List for quite some time, if not forever. And it doesn't matter how you capitalize it.
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But the super alter ego of Image Comics' character Infringement Chaser is Siren. He would chase people who imitated the name or look of established Image supers while going "WaaaaAhAAAAAAhhhaaaaAAAAAHHH!" before serving them with papers suing them on the super's behalf. (The previous sentence was an utter fabrication; i have no idea why the name "Siren" is blocked.)
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Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven
Which is odd... because the Marvel character by that name spells it "Siryn."
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Dr. Todt's theme.
i make stuff...
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DC and Malibu comics, apparently. It's not all about Marvel.
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Originally Posted by Schismatrix
i have no idea why the name "Siren" is blocked.
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'I don't like the look of it at all,' said the King: 'however, it may kiss my hand if it likes.'
'I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked.
'Don't be impertinent,' said the King, 'and don't look at me like that!' He got behind Alice as he spoke.
'A cat may look at a king,' said Alice.
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Ah. Still, it's a bit of a stretch in my opinion, but i fully realize it's not my opinion that matters.
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Originally Posted by Aneko
DC and Malibu comics, apparently. It's not all about Marvel.
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Dr. Todt's theme.
i make stuff...
I'm on Virtue. As you can imagine, there's a lot of names taken... so you have multiple players with the same name but with an . or - or interchanging l and I
As of late, I've seen twins running around with the same names. Its not the l/I trick or alt codes...
How are they doing this? Is it an exploit?