Hello all. As you may already know mojang has now unlucked its feature to allow legit users to change their names. This is well and good... however.. you must keep in mind this is a cracked server and as such... it has no connection with Mojang's official services. 

 

So what does this mean you ask? Well put simply... to allow Minecraft users to change name and not break basically everything in Minecraft... Mojang implemented a something called 'UUID' this basically means that every one with a legit account is given a specific ID that no other user in the world will have. This ID will remain permanently the same even if you change your username, fortunately most plugins are up-to-date with this new feature including our GriefPRevention system. HOWEVER, this UUID system relies on connections with Mojang's services so the UUIDs or IDs that you have, come from them, not the server.

 

With a cracked server, there is no UUID from Mojang, so this means when you change your usernames, there is a good chance (unless im mistaken) that the UUIDs will also change with them..(on a cracked server) so that means with all these plugins now relying on UUIDs instead of names as they used to be, effectively if you change your name a lot of things will no longer function for you.

 

So how will this impact me specifically you ask? well, this means that Claims may or may not transfer over to your new name... it may also mean that anything reliant on your UUID will no longer work, this includes any stats on the server like, 'mcmmo' or, admin/verified status, pretty much everything will be effected by this. 

 

The biggest problem we face is NeORollBack rolling back your houses/structures as this is not based on UUID, it uses names still which imo is a better system... hence not switching it to UUID which i may be forced to do but for now we're using names. I have implemented a way for us to transfer all block changes over to your new names so that when NeORollBack rolls back your old name, it will not do anything to any of your houses/structures. So this is pretty safe, but everything else is still unknown... ie, claims e.t.c.

 

So if you really must change your name... then do it whilst keeping in mind everything that is said here. There is no "quick fix" or "green button" to press to make it all work for you again, so chances are certain things will be lost if you change your name. Keep that in mind. I'm in the process of changing my name myself, to test how badly this will impact users. IT's not looking good so far however :P.

Wouldn't a change in a premium name... be the same as if you were to just change your name with a cracked launcher? 

Wouldn't a change in a premium name... be the same as if you were to just change your name with a cracked launcher?

With cracked servers yes. That's what some people are not knowing and then changing names :/ I will see if there's anything I can do to dampen the damage but yeah ...