who can change names of the players?

title says all.. only dru and sha? or there any others (ç

Thè-Hättêr wrote:

title says all.. only dru and sha? or there any others (ç

Nope, just you.

I think he means changing the names of existing characters
Several of his characters use funny symbols that are no longer accepted by the server
andhe wants to fix them so he can play them again

Then, what Hatter needs to do is change his names and request that his stats be transferred to his new name. He must use the admin request (it's the same as for banned players) at:

administrators@disastrousconsequences.com

Hatter, please be sure to give a full explanation of what you need done. Please understand that it may take a while.

yes, ut2004 converts the stats file to iso8859-1 when it encounters one of those characters. Some editors cannot handle that type of encoding so Dru may have recoded the file into utf-8 which drops the special characters.

hatter, have you tried logging in with those letters removed?

yes greg, so far nothing, in fact i even used the names that ut2004 stats are showing as paradoxx and hattter..

and yep i already mail dru

but well if i use stadistics..then we will connect again in 2 and half years..

The problem is that certain Japanese characters that some people love to use in their names cause the UT2004RPG.ini file to convert from ISO8859-1 to UTF-16LE

ISO8859-1 uses one byte per character. UTF16-LE uses 4 bytes per character. The result is that the RPG file quadruples in size, and every time it is saved, which is frequently, the server now has to handle saving 4 times the data.

In the past, when I've down converted the file, it hasn't caused anyone any issues, however apparently there were some more interesting characters inserted this time.

Finding people with high ascii in their names has always been an issue. It's almost impossible to search the file by name when you have these characters in your name.

For those of you having this issue, we will do a one time name swap for you. You must follow the instructions for how to obtain your cd key hash here: http://www.disastrousconsequences.com/wiki/index.php/CDKey_hash

Then give us a rough guess of what your character names were, and what you'd like them to be without any unusual ascii characters.

You can then email unreal@disastrousconsequences.com and we'll endeavor to change your names this following weekend.

i must take a wild guess, i didnt get out my stats?

Sorry, we didn't get it done over the weekend. We're going to try to wrap up the two players that sent in information tomorrow evening.

thanks druid i really give you thanks, because even i know you have a lot of things going on u gave your self time for me

hope the weekend suits you druid... and hope this time is for good!

Shantara made the changes as requested this evening.

We found that some of you had played the characters you had requested the name changes for. We have merged your stats, so you may find some additional levels on your old characters, and the new characters with the same names have been deleted.

thanks for all!