On Thu, 14 May 1998, Angus Mezick wrote:
> obcircle:
> Has anyone out there thought of doing a name change command for players? I was
> thinking of an imm-only command that would extract a hunk of change out of the
> player and then change there name. Also post this name change to a room desc,
> but that is something else. Now here is the hard part. What exactly needs to
> be changed? I know i would have to rename the rent/alias/something else files.
> i think i can do this while the game is live, but it worries me a bit. Does
> anyone see any other complications that i could be getting into. Normaly we
> have people just start a new char an advance them, but that leads to all sorts
> of abuses.
Other than any named files as you mentioned, you only need to change it
online (and saving the player immediately) and changing the name in
player_table[]. Make sure that copy of the name is all lowercase.
Sam
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