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Old 02-08-2010, 10:06 PM
Pirate123
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What exactly are people doing to get those ascii characters in their server names? ive been trying to figure it out but i havent seemed to figure it out yet.
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Old 02-08-2010, 10:17 PM
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Well, there are ways to generate ascii characters like that just by doing key strokes. But, doing that to bump your server name to the top of the list is frowned upon. We have been trying to come up with a good solution to make it so servers aren't sorted based on those characters. Quite a few solutions have been considered, but I don't think any of them are the perfect solutions, which is why they haven't been put in yet. Though, I think maybe just not allowing server names that start with anything other than a letter might be the best solution. As long as servers don't start naming themselves "AAAAAA Server" to get to the top :P Unfortunately, we can't just make servers sort by population without having side-effects, because I think that would be the best way to handle it.
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Old 02-08-2010, 10:21 PM
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Yea, i was trying to ascii key strokes but couldnt match anything so i gave up =P Guess my new server will just be bumped down once i make it official. haha.
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Old 02-08-2010, 10:36 PM
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Sort randomly :p
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Old 02-08-2010, 10:53 PM
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Sorting randomly can be done fairly easily, but then that means the server name will change everytime the LS resorts randomly. So, players will have to log in everytime and search for where their server moved to in the list and click it to play instead of just logging in and connecting like normal (with the saved server).
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