NationStates Jolt Archive


Name changing

Letila
15-11-2003, 19:50
Can you change my name? Everyone thinks I am a girl. I know it is supposed to be hard, but can it be done?

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Mliêstôlkakûmek(Love all as you love yourself)
Racism-the other stupid ideology
Peace, love, and girls with small waists and big butts!
Letilan moths! Yay!
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HC Eredivisie
15-11-2003, 19:52
can't.
Peng-Pau
15-11-2003, 19:57
Can't be done because of the way the game's programmed...

Bad [violet] for not having one field only for the username, and everything else done by user_id... :P
Cogitation
15-11-2003, 19:59
Can you change my name? Everyone thinks I am a girl. I know it is supposed to be hard, but can it be done?

Without wreaking havoc with the game? No, sorry. The way this game is coded, changing the national name is theoretically possible, but so difficult in practice as to be completely impractical.

Incidentally, this is why nations with offensive names are deleted; the names can't be changed, so there's no alternative.

If you really want a new name, you'll have to start a new nation. :?

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NuMetal
15-11-2003, 20:08
Yeah, I guess if you changed someones name you would have to go through and change every instance of that name throughout the code :shock:
Letila
15-11-2003, 20:11
So the code changes itself with each new nation?

It must be cool to have access to the code, like all those doors in The Matrix: Reloaded.

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Mliêstôlkakûmek(Love all as you love yourself)
Racism-the other stupid ideology
Peace, love, and girls with small waists and big butts!
Letilan moths! Yay!
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:TEA1WL6tIGQC:w1.150.telia.com/~u15008589
Peng-Pau
15-11-2003, 20:14
So the code changes itself with each new nation?

It must be cool to have access to the code, like all those doors in The Matrix: Reloaded.

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Mliêstôlkakûmek(Love all as you love yourself)
Racism-the other stupid ideology
Peace, love, and girls with small waists and big butts!
Letilan moths! Yay!
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:TEA1WL6tIGQC:w1.150.telia.com/~u15008589

I doubt it, it'd be more like looking at a wide plain filled as far as you can see with incomprehensible jargon, hehehe...
Steel Butterfly
15-11-2003, 20:17
Letilan moths! Yay!
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:TEA1WL6tIGQC:w1.150.telia.com/~u15008589

This also makes you rather "girly"
Catholic Europe
15-11-2003, 20:26
The only thing you can do is to let that nation cease to exist and create a new one.
Peng-Pau
15-11-2003, 20:27
Letilan moths! Yay!
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:TEA1WL6tIGQC:w1.150.telia.com/~u15008589

This also makes you rather "girly"

IIRC, Letilan Moths eat flesh... :P (j/k)
Letila
15-11-2003, 20:28
I'll address that.

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Mliêstôlkakûmek(Love all as you love yourself)
Racism-the other stupid ideology
Peace, love, and girls with small waists and big butts!
Letilan moths! Yay!
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:TEA1WL6tIGQC:w1.150.telia.com/~u15008589
15-11-2003, 21:03
The signature picture reminds me of fallopian tubes.
15-11-2003, 22:19
The signature picture reminds me of fallopian tubes.

I think the signature's supposed to be some subtle metaphor for pleasuring yourself.
Letila
16-11-2003, 00:39
I switching to a new pic. Any ideas?

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Mliêstôlkakûmek(Love all as you love yourself)
Racism-the other stupid ideology
Peace, love, and girls with small waists and really big butts!
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:TEA1WL6tIGQC:w1.150.telia.com/~u15008589
16-11-2003, 00:48
I always think that your pic is an ugly crab, but it is a butterfly.
16-11-2003, 01:15
I switching to a new pic. Any ideas?

Aww? Just because your signature can be interpreted as masturbatory symbology? Wouldn't this alleviate your problem of people thinking you're a girl?
Letila
16-11-2003, 01:23
Perhaps, but I really don't like it that much anyway.

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Mliêstôlkakûmek(Love all as you love yourself)
Racism-the other stupid ideology
Peace, love, and girls with small waists and really big butts!
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:TEA1WL6tIGQC:w1.150.telia.com/~u15008589
The Basenji
16-11-2003, 01:26
Sorry man. Due to the program of the game it can't be done. Just keep your siggy how it is, and people will think your a guy. ;) :P


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16-11-2003, 02:10
Letila the mermaid :lol:
MrNonchalant
16-11-2003, 02:15
Actually the code is perfectly readable and does not change on each new addition, rather a database that the code references to does. I know because I script PHP which is similar to Perl which the game is coded in.
16-11-2003, 02:15
Letila the mermaid :lol:

Heh.. Lolita!