Minutes ago I got banned - 5 minutes.
And I will do again, and again, everytime I see this "... ..." player ingame.
If he is red, good. If he is blue, better yet.

Couple days ago, he camped on me, in red suit. Ok. I can handle campers, nothing wrong on using air supremacy. But camping with NO NAME and NO TAG? Low life crap.

Shot him minutes ago until that "traitor" message pop appeared on my screen. Waiting for the next round.

Oh, and if some of you see him ingame, consider giving him a bit of "brazilian love", please, telling him to get a freaking name and to charge me for the "love".
Thanks in advance.

yep ped i cant see these guys at night i wear specs and fully support you think zup need to make letters mandatory.i know your not the only one hunting these guys

He is an older pilot I believe ""...."" Guys a creep I always drop and go for him pedrino..

I don't have proof so I won't say the name here ...

Yeah, his rank is high, and he is deadly. But I don't even care who he is.

About limiting the characters used on nicknames, I made this request more than 2 years ago, and many people suported me at that time - but it didnt have any echo.

Zup made spawning at random places to minimize spawnkills - its on an update I got yesterday. Why not implementing this name restriction to prevent no names? The idea is forcing players to use only numbers and alphabetic chars, and with no two sequential "spaces" (allowing just one space between two non-space chars). And with at least 4 non-space chars.

I know, there are tons and tons of names with "spaces" and "*" and "." and """ and "_" on the database - and to change all of them is not an option, cuz at the moment the player log in, he would receive the message saying "The login or password doesnt match", or something like it.
To solve/prevent this issue, Zup could simply put a code in the very game file checking the player's name locally (on his/her own device), in the moment he/she logs in, imediately preventing him/her to fly and asking him/her to change his/her name if it doesnt fit the new standards - and kikcing him/her if he/she doesnt change the nickname properly. This in-app code will save the servers from this extra-job, and save Zup for the "Hey Zup, I cant log in!".

By the way, Zup could use his time on this task to "kill two rabits with a single shot", as we say in Brazil: he could put in the code some sort of check-list, to prevent people to use bad words on their nicks.

I dont have the guts to make a poll or something like it, but it would be nice if someone made it.

Personally I LOVE 'no-name' pilots... I make them my priority to kill 1st and as often as possible in any mission I spawn into.

Now imagine if I decided to fly as a 'no-name'

Something like " . " Wouldn't exactly be very sporting of me would it? Especially in Capture the Flag missions (which seem to be mostly at night) Too bad these no-name pilots don't feel the same way. If they're in a squadron or if it was a tournament or something it would ALMOST be understandable to use every advantage available to a pilot, but as a normal day-to-day thing it's a little excessive.. kind of like cheating.. Hence my desire to totally decimate those no-name pilots I run across.

Happy Hunting!!

Lets put it more clearly:

I dont care about campers (as I dont care about spawnkillers, sneakers or droppers - I do that sometimes, for tactical purposes, aiming to win).

And I dont care about no-names.

But I DO CARE WHEN A NO-NAME KEEP CAMPING!!!

Got the picture? One of these two things, isolated, is not big deal. I dont even consider it cheating or low-level: I like chasing no-names, its fun an quite a challenge.

But these TWO THINGS TOGETHER???? Camping when wearing no-name, almost invisible???? This is cowardice, low-level style, cheap point harvesting.

As I use to say, its just a game. Dont you like that enemy? Kill him or quit.

So, I am not whinning: The purpose of this thread is to make everybody aware that, everytime I see a no-name ingame, I will chase him/her (even if he/she is blue).

And I wont even care to tell why - as I did saying to the "point-space-point" guy to get a name before killing him and geting banned.

[LB] Pedrinho wrote: Yeah, his rank is high, and he is deadly. But I don't even care who he is.

About limiting the characters used on nicknames, I made this request more than 2 years ago, and many people suported me at that time - but it didnt have any echo.

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It did. I looked into it, in fact new players can't pick names so easily since then. The problem was how to update the existing names. Names have to be unique and only way I can think is to automatically change all names with a number at the end and then let everyone repick their names. But most will not be happy, specially if someone takes their names.

I personally hate more the names with {[[&^ characters.

Oh, thanks Zup.

The problem is not hating this or that; the problem is not personal taste. The problem is that there are chars that make the player almost invisible - since the simbol of the player's rank is yellow, with low contrast against sky, little contrast against water and terrain, and zero contrast agains snow... If, at least, this symbol was turned on another color, it would help a lot...

Edit: How about adding to this symbol (or changing it to) a horizontal bar or rectangle (preferably red) with, at least, five times the horizontal size of the symbol?
I mean, when a guy has no name, one can spot them from distance and fight head-on, but during turn-fights, its impossible to track them, and that's when their advantage is more deadly. Not mentioning when they go tank.

Edit 2 (cuz I couldnt miss this pun): OK, you said my request did have an ECHO... Now, we are waiting for the BOOM!

hey zup can you not write a program so that any character other than a letter or number appears with a box around it ? like [.] this ? or enforce the use of so many letters or numbers like apple do with pass words example four letters or numbers ? then they can use how ever many commas or dashes as they like but it wouldn't become a cheap cheat i cant see the dashes at night my eyes are not good and wear glasses and the reflection from screen to glasses is awful

Zup, maybe put a highlight colour behind the text characters?

Have never run into a player without a name that is a reasonable person