(really) long names

[starjax]

so whats up with the people with really long names (256 characters?). Doesn't seem like it's causing any problems other than being really annoying.

[[Expletive Deleted]]

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Yeah, I played with a guy named: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

It's pretty annoying when they fill up the already limited chat area.

[WolfAlmighty]

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I don't think the names themselves are a problem, but if you get someone with a long clan tag there's a possibility of it CTDing you when you get killed by them. Happened to me twice just a little bit ago when a bunch of feckwits decided to put the clan tag 'The clan of many many many letters and spaces' in front of their soldiers. I CTDed once when one killed me, restarted the game and rejoined the server, then CTDed again when another one of them (or it could have been the same one I guess) killed me. Before I CTD the game stopped for about 5 seconds giving me enough time to see that their name is listed as <killer> in the killcam, so obviously the game wasn't designed to have the entire text of the King James Bible as the clan tag. I'm assuming they're fixing this in release, otherwise griefing will have never been so easy.

[imported_Kalo]

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I don't think the names themselves are a problem, but if you get someone with a long clan tag there's a possibility of it CTDing you when you get killed by them. Happened to me twice just a little bit ago when a bunch of feckwits decided to put the clan tag 'The clan of many many many letters and spaces' in front of their soldiers. I CTDed once when one killed me, restarted the game and rejoined the server, then CTDed again when another one of them (or it could have been the same one I guess) killed me. Before I CTD the game stopped for about 5 seconds giving me enough time to see that their name is listed as <killer> in the killcam, so obviously the game wasn't designed to have the entire text of the King James Bible as the clan tag. I'm assuming they're fixing this in release, otherwise griefing will have never been so easy.

I laughed so hard.

[CptainCrunch]

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Yeah, its a reported bug and is suppose to be locked down later.

Until then you have to put up with the griefers using it to destroy gameplay.

Crunch

[(BG)Patton]

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i had a guy with the name 8================================================= =============D i laughed at first then i killed him as many times as possible just to see his wang again.

[imported_Erol]

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i had a guy with the name 8================================================= =============D i laughed at first then i killed him as many times as possible just to see his wang again.

*cough*

Yeah, there was 4 people in a server today with huge prefixes, I didn't crash but it was annoying.

[Quemical]

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On 1 round, someone just Typed AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA A aaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Something long like that and it ran across the middle of my screen. If that was to pop up while trying to shoot someone, it would of made it impossible to properly aim. That needs to be fixed.

[Sike]

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i saw a guy with the name, "My clan tag is so long because DICE didnt put a character limit on the tags - Dave"

[iQue]

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I usually just use something witty for a clan tag... they should seriously decrease the char limit but I hope they keep it at something reasonable like 15

[DrunkenPirate]

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Will probably be decreased to something like 10 chars.
I would like it if they moved the position of chats though, having them right across the middle of the screen is silly. At some points yesterday I could not fight at all because my cross-hair was obscured by some 12 year old whining about how laggy his computer ran the beta.

[WolfAlmighty]

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Yeah, having it in the middle of the screen is a bit of a head-scratcher, kind of like how it won't show more than one kill at a time in the ticker. When you pop a blackhawk full of people you want the whole server to know about it.

[McSteviee]

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Will probably be decreased to something like 10 chars.
I would like it if they moved the position of chats though, having them right across the middle of the screen is silly. At some points yesterday I could not fight at all because my cross-hair was obscured by some 12 year old whining about how laggy his computer ran the beta.

Why are the whiny kids ALWAYS 12? Why not 11 or 13?

[Vreki]

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Why are the whiny kids ALWAYS 12? Why not 11 or 13?

Because 11 and 13 are both prime numbers. And whiny kids are not in their prime.

[Namakan]

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Because 11 and 13 are both prime numbers. And whiny kids are not in their prime.

Oh snap!