Name changing

[99465]

Name changing has finally become a reality!!!
I'm posting this to warn everyone though.
Changing your name on minecraft may come with some unwanted consequences:
•Locks: For some reason, some chests and doors that you locked may not be opened by you;
•Ontime: your ontime WILL be set back to 0 if you get a new username;
•Homes: all your /homes will be gone;

Do take notice:
If you change your username, you will be unable to change it again for 30 days.
Your old username is also locked for 37 days (nobody can pick it during that time).

[Luna Pixu]

Warning taken.

But there's a simple explanation as to why this is the case. It's due to name-handling and interpretation of names in Minecraft. In the latter versions of 1.7 and in 1.8, players are no longer referred to by username and instead are referred to by a constant and unique player ID. This means that servers can ban players and give specific attributes to other players without any worry of those players changing names. If this ID system were not in place, cheaters and morons could easily change their name to avoid bans (although it won't grant them IP ban immunity).

Since we are basically using 1.7 plugins in 1.8, some plugins including our locks and ontime counter will still be using usernames as player identification instead of their player ID. This means that anyone who has recently changed their name will not be recognised by these plugins and instead have new data assigned to them. (Data for 99465 still exists but it hasn't transferred to Leon_99465).

A simple fix to the lock problem, for those who have alternate accounts, is to grant admin rights to your alts for all your chests and locked content. That way, your alts can grant you access to your stuff again once you change your name.
For those who don't have alts, you will have to consult a staff member to unlock all your content so that you may re-lock it in your new name. You can also grant admin rights to a middleman but this is a very risky move and should not be practised unless you highly trust said middleman.

(Also, Tenshi, Mad, and co., sorry if I highly butchered the explanation or got something wrong. But it's the only simple explanation that I know to this problem.)

[99465]

Since we basically using 1.7 plugins in 1.8, some plugins including our locks and ontime counter will still be using usernames as player identification instead of their ID. This means that anyone who has recently changed their name will not be recognised by these plugins and instead have new data assigned to them. (Data for 99465 still exists but it hasn't transferred to Leon_99465).

You are only half correct about that part.
Some of my locks DID actually switch over to Leon_99465. Mostly the recently locked things.

[Nuclearblt]

How does one name change?

[Yukkurirumia]

So 99465 will be 99466?

[Nazrin]

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes!

[99465]

How does one name change?

Quoting the Mojang support website:

Can I change my username?
Starting February 4th, you will be able to change a Minecraft username (this includes editing capitalization). If you sign in with your email, this feature will be available to you. If you sign in with your username, you'll need to migrate to a Mojang account. Usernames can be changed at account.mojang.com/me; just click the "change" link next to your name.

So 99465 will be 99466?

How did u know!? Nah, I'm now Leon_99465.