Warp jacking should be in the rules

The top player on skyblock, em, had /is warp imp for a long time, but now that's gone.
That's normal if someone has an account name alphabetically first, it happened to me with /is warp syn causing me to make synaaa. Sorry Syntaursus, people were warping to your island and getting mad at me for not having stuff and changing "my island" =).
In the above case, I made the account specifically to keep hold of Syn that I had for months while keeping synt to the new player. Also in that case, the player was advertising their full name anyway.

Now for em, someone signed up 2 accounts, Imp0sa and imp0a
Now you can't /is warp imp, /is warp imp0, or /is warp imp0s

All accounts are default balance, a small warp of quartz has been made on the default island. I've watched people trying to warp imp warp there for a while. Someone clearly did this to warp jack em.

I really think by next season there should be a rule about intentional warp jacking. Not a long punishment, but something to prevent blatant jacking of long existing warp like this (not naturally by someones normal account name). Or there could be a way for staff to alias warps manually when a popular warp is taken like this, ie manually assign just imp to em



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/is warp syn now goes to Syntaursus again, not synaaa like it once did, neither of us changed our warps or names. I don't think this is predictably alphabetical either. It's just like looking for the first name that starts with the typed warp on an unsorted list or something.

 

We found out today it indeed doesn't really follow an order rule. You'll notice what first tab autocomplete is isn't what you may warp to.

I've had warps mix order with neither being changed, and imp000 didn't take ems warp back (kinda feel bad for telling her to try that). Also, I tested random names and found it was prioritizing islands not alphabetically first. I looked at the plugin itself, and I couldn't find any sorting for it either. I only found sorting for the list window (/is warps), which by default is sorted by last login

It just matches the fist name it finds that starts with what you typed, and can be a crapshoot on what it finds. Im not 100% on that though, I didn't look at everything but it seemed to be how it worked

However for example, when syntaursus joined, I took back /is warp syn pretty fast by getting synaaa. Month and a half or more ago, without either of us changing our names or breaking/replacing our warps (think he was inactive) it suddenly decided syntaursus was before synaaa again with /is warp syn.

Another bit of empirical evidence I ran across is before em was warp jacked, I signed up a new alt named "impaalimpaa" (like oompa loompa) . I made a warp sign for this account, and immediately took it down because for some reason it warp jacked /is warp imp, which Imp0ssibl3Girl should come before. It does not, however, take priority over the new warps in the OP post which also starts imp0, so it's not a "numbers aren't before letters" thing, otherwise impaalimpaa would take back /is warp imp right now

Finally, earlier I started like warping to is "a" and "ab" and so on, and watched it change who it went to for no reason in one case right before my eyes. In fact right now /is warp a takes me to AmberLorraine's island, even though warps like aalex126 exist.

All said, if it could be made to reliably be alphanumeric sorting, it would make it so having "synaa" or "syn000" would guarantee to a reasonable degree that I have /is warp syn next season, and other players could rename an alt to claim short warps as well.

 

You're right. I wanted it as a new rule going forward. To be fair, when it happened, they were not advertising "syn", and I had been for a long time. They were advertising their full name, I wouldn't have done it otherwise. A lot of people were messaging me even after I changed my ads to syntax getting mad about me not having the stuff I advertised or changing my island
I would have been fine with not doing it too.

Also I totally thought it was always alphabetic too until recently, I mean that just makes sense.

 

Yah, kinda why I said next season for a new rule or something, not much can be done now, and if it was a rule I dont mean for it to be something that affects people that happened to be named similar. An alias system would be fine with me too tbh, and much more effective.

 

It would be cool if we can make them any length and it could like tie in to an island name, not just the leaders name.
You see, MC doesn't allow "SyntaxAwesomeIslandGreatJob" as an ign, it's too long.
Ofc that would be a lot of modification.
But an island name would be cool, esp for teams.