Player name matching [MEDIUM]

[Ian]

Typing a complete player (first) name should match them, rather than searching if it's an alias for another player.

[HP=3203]:who
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? ? ? ? ?Ian ChangeMe? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? -? Unknown
? ? ? ? ?IanTwo ChangeMe? ? ? ? ? ? ?-? Apprentice
[HP=3203]:/iant test
--- Telepath Sent to IanTwo ---
[HP=3203]:/ian test
--- Telepath Sent to IanTwo ---
I created a dupe for testing, IanTwo, and now no one can tp me anymore.? It always matches IanTwo (when she's in the game ;) )

[Ian]

Ok, after extensive testing with Ian, IanTwo and Soul, we can't reproduce the tp problem.  They all go to Ian now.  Same goes for everything except combat.  That targets the player who entered the room first.

We tried every combination we could think of with entering/exiting/hanging/rerolling/walking in/out... can't change tp order.

Anyway, I suspect whatever it's depending on won't matter when it asks for clarification and full-name matching is implemented.

[The Crazy Animal]

I noticed theres a problem with this but didn't get to post it till now.

When telepathing if two players have similar names it doesn't ask which do you want to telepath to.

For example using the names that it happened with:
DeathCow
DeathCowSmasher

if you just typed /death (message)

It just telepathed the first closest match which would be DeathCow.

It should say:

Which player did you mean:
DeathCow Changeme
DeathCowSmasher (can't remember what the last name was)

or something to that effect.

[DeathCow]

I noticed theres a problem with this but didn't get to post it till now.

When telepathing if two players have similar names it doesn't ask which do you want to telepath to.

For example using the names that it happened with:
DeathCow
DeathCowSmasher

if you just typed /death (message)

It just telepathed the first closest match which would be DeathCow.

It should say:

Which player did you mean:
DeathCow Changeme
DeathCowSmasher (can't remember what the last name was)

or something to that effect.

Sounds good, except the last name shouldnt be there.

[Locke Cole]

Here's zee message..

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[DeathCow]

1.03s?

[Locke Cole]

1.03s?

Yes. 1.03t had issues, then 1.03u came out and had more issues and I wasn't interested in waiting for Merlin to fix them (which if the fact that there's no 1.03v is any indicator and it's been like three years, probably means there'll never be a new version).

[Ian]

I'm running 1.03u

[DeathCow]

so am I.

[Valentine]

Me three.