PSA: Name changing to be implemented on February 4th

[Towelie]

Mojang recently announced in a post that name changing will be implemented on February 4th.
https://mojang.com/2015/01/announcing-minecraft-name-changes/

List of servers prepared for this change:
Survival (full UUID support, running version 1 8 )
Pixelmon (full UUID support, running version 1.7.10)

List of servers not prepared for this change:
B-Team
Tekkit Classic
Any server running on Minecraft 1.7.2 or older
Are you a player on one of these servers? Ask the person in charge to implement a secondary login system (like we have on survival /login /register) and most importantly -> DO NOT CHANGE YOUR NAME if you wish to not lose your items/protections/everything.


NOTE: If you use your account to play only on Survival/Pixelmon *IT SHOULD* be safe to change your name and still keeping your inventory/protections/etc. We are not however responsible if something goes wrong and we recommend not doing this until the system is implemented and we confirm everything works fine.

[Eternal_Jamie]

This will be... interesting

[Green_Giant]

This will be... interesting

Haha yeah, it'll be kind of awkward if log in and all the Manager+ have different names, either way i'll love to see some of the new names people pick if they decide to change.

[LUFC4eva]

Will factions users be ok?

[Tombo_]

This will be fun

[Lucazade13]

ok this will be different

[Towelie]

Will factions users be ok?

should be. faction's using 1.7.10

[ddude_stnom]

This may sound like a newbie question, but what will happen to PlayersStats? (/pstats) And ranks?

[Towelie]

This may sound like a newbie question, but what will happen to PlayersStats? (/pstats) And ranks?

As long as you don't change your name there shouldn't be any problems.
Normally player stats are uuid aware but we will know for sure after we test with a changed name. (fear can answer better)

[maxwolf28]

is vanilla ok for this change?

[Snake]

So you will tell us when you have an answer if it's safe or not to change names?

[Infarnape4Slurper]

Yes. Same for whitelisted players and oped players. They also keep their inventory, pets, statistics and everything they own on a server

This is said in the post, so I guess we might be good?

[tylerinator]

What if you want to change a lower case letter to an uppercase letter in your name... Personally my fricken ocd makes me have to change  my name from tylerinator to Tylerinator

[Eternal_Jamie]

What if you want to change a lower case letter to an uppercase letter in your name... Personally my fricken ocd makes me have to change  my name from tylerinator to Tylerinator

Read: https://mojang.com/2015/01/announcing-minecraft-name-changes/

So you will tell us when you have an answer if it's safe or not to change names?

I think it's safe to assume Towelie/fear etc. aren't going to spend a lot of time testing stuff to ensure name changes are okay and then just not tell anyone.

[tman6698]

Oh god, not name changing D:

[The Lovin Spoon]

Fischor, Crypt The Warchild and brE is comin to town

[UrbanmineR]

I shall be called Urban... I will return from the void... and make my new horde... of leper gnomes...

[ryan_m004]

Will it be ok to change your name if you own an auto shop?

[DuaneandBrand0]

I can finally be DuanetheDino c:

[Lazy_0ne]

To change, or not to change- that is the question

[Towelie]

Will it be ok to change your name if you own an auto shop? [emoji14]

Should be but again until we test we won't know 100%

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[ryan_m004]

This is going to confuse the fuck out of me when people change their name xD

[xQuicScopex]

if we do decide to change our names (i want a freakin k in my name already) would forum names be able to change as well or do they need to stay as they are?

[supergomguy]

I feel that this is going to affect some servers quite alot, like someone could go name them selves TowelieDOH_ and at first glance people would think its the original Towelie, I'm not sure though. And also it will be very confusing, especially if you think you know most people on a server and then suddenly theres all these new names that know you xD

[xQuicScopex]

or people can break rules under one account and if they're are witnesses then they can just change their name and be safe