Nickname bug

lighthousekeeper · 09-11-2009, 10:13 PM

While decoding the names.dat file, I noticed a bug. When you are in the in-game player editor and enter in a nickname for the player, the game create a new nickname record in names.dat for every keystroke. So if you are providing a nickname for a player called "Sweet Ass"

, the names.dat file will be filled with the nicknames shown in the attachment. "Swee", "Sweet A", "Sweet As".

This would not be a problem really, except when new players are created, they will sometimes have the partially written nicknames. I ran a test by creating 10000 free agents, and saw that some had these incomplete nicknames (like "Sweet As")

Irishray · 09-11-2009, 11:00 PM

ewww -- a nasty one

Afino · 09-11-2009, 11:16 PM

Well, "Sweet As" works.....if the guy's name is Sugar.

09-11-2009, 10:13 PM	#1 (permalink)
lighthousekeeper All Star Reserve Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 716 Thanks: 24 Thanked 87x in 31 posts	Nickname bug While decoding the names.dat file, I noticed a bug. When you are in the in-game player editor and enter in a nickname for the player, the game create a new nickname record in names.dat for every keystroke. So if you are providing a nickname for a player called "Sweet Ass" , the names.dat file will be filled with the nicknames shown in the attachment. "Swee", "Sweet A", "Sweet As". This would not be a problem really, except when new players are created, they will sometimes have the partially written nicknames. I ran a test by creating 10000 free agents, and saw that some had these incomplete nicknames (like "Sweet As") Attached Images __________________ OOTP Companion Utility: dat file reader, Team Rater, Player Dev Tracker, and HOF Analyzer for OOTP10 & 11

09-11-2009, 11:00 PM	#2 (permalink)
Irishray Moderator Join Date: May 2007 Location: Dallas, TX Posts: 282 Thanks: 27 Thanked 5x in 4 posts	ewww -- a nasty one __________________ Ray Linux - Xubuntu 10.04 32-Bit and 64-Bit

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