Quick question

[Lomgren]

How are you supposed to test if a player has a certain account name online? Offline it is impossible to do, since none of the information is available, and I would like to know, for a couple scripts I am writing

[SSmutz]

try it on one of those old gserver's i guess, if they even support it

[kyle0654]

if (strequals(#a,accountname)) {

#a is the string that holds the player's account name...if you want to check a player of a certain index, use #a(index). Just remember that account names are case sensitive ;)

[Fai]

Even I knew that :]

[SSmutz]

yea, but when your offline, you dont have an account name set to yourself

[kyle0654]

actually, from past experience, I think it uses the one you have selected or used last when you go into offline mode as #a....cuz I've gotten that code to work offline for just my account before.

[freddyfox]

*Hides from Kyle's scary bad language in his Sub-Title*

[Lomgren]

Thanks Kyle, I thought it was something like that, but I wasn't sure. :D

[kyle0654]

sure, you might test with #n instead of #a and set your nickname to the account name you want to be used just to make sure things work.

*was unaware that was a bad word*

[Lomgren]

Here is another way I just thought of, and checked offline....there is a way to check to see if your account name works in an NPC offline:
Make an NPC, then put this script in it...

if (playertouchsme) {setstring #a, accountname;}

that way, you can set your accountname properly, then test it out offline. When you are sure it works, you can then delete the npc that set the accountname.