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Rorok Longstaff
Registered User
Join date: 16 Oct 2006
Posts: 16
02-21-2007 10:30
Problem: Can't find someone in search, even when you have exact spelling of name.

Last night, while standing on an object elevated 10m above my property floor, a newbie flew in and deliberately circled me then bumped me from my spot, sending me to the floor. Being somewhat accommodating to newbies, I checked my bump list and saw his name there. While he was in range, I targeted and confirmed his incept date was today, no payment info, etc.

Getting no reaction from me, he soon chose to wander off and I proceeded to try to find his name again in the search facility, to no avail.

Here's the weird part: The newbie's name was "Nightreader Clary", yet the characters "ea" had no spacing between them, appearing like they may have been from a foreign character set. I tried every possible combo to find him, including reading through all of the hundreds of Clary's. Again, his name was in my bump list, yet even extracting it from there and pasting into the search engine proved useless.

1) Is it even possible to use "foreign" characters in names? If it is, is it possible that the search facility cannot locate names containing foreign characters?
2) How can someone push you on your own property when you have pushing disabled on your land?
Thili Playfair
Registered User
Join date: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 2,417
02-21-2007 15:17
Newly created avatars doesnt show up on search, say hello to 1 day griefers
Rorok Longstaff
Registered User
Join date: 16 Oct 2006
Posts: 16
02-21-2007 16:06
He must like me. He's back today, and still not in database.
Thili Playfair
Registered User
Join date: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 2,417
02-21-2007 16:25
Nightreader Clary | 2/20/2007 |

Shows up on my search, right tab?
Rorok Longstaff
Registered User
Join date: 16 Oct 2006
Posts: 16
02-21-2007 17:06
Thanks. 24+ short hours later and MySQL has seen fit to update the database.