We will be seeing the rise of Minecraft 1.8 soon.
When this happens, Mojang will start allowing you to change your Minecraft usernames.
Please note that if you change your username:
- You will lose ALL of your data (Meebles, Items, Towns & Residency, Hiscores, etc)
- You will lose ALL of your donator ranks
- No one will know who you are! You will be a loner.
- Someone else can steal your old username and your assets above!
For this reason we ask you,
do not change your username!An administrator will not help you recover your assets if you do!
Thanks.
~ @Coelho
I believe a lot of this is incorrect.
Your first bullet point:
- Meebles, I believe, is handled by Essentials' economy, and I haven't seen it yet but I know they will convert player usernames into UUIDs so name changing won't be a problem for economy.
- Items are handled by the player data in the world data folder and the 1.8 release of Bukkit (and Spigot) automatically convert the player data into UUIDs (new folder) when the server first starts up. It also does this for banned-players.txt, banned-ips.txt, ops.txt and whitelist.txt.
- Towns is a pretty big plugin. If the developers are still active, surely they'd convert player names into UUIDs.
- Hiscores? Highscores.
Your second bullet point:
- If MeepCraft is using PermissionsEx, PermissionsEx have already release a new version that converts player names into UUIDs using a command (see changelog for Pex) therefore keeping donator (and all other) ranks.
- If MeepCraft is using GroupManager, Essentials is one of the top 5 plugins, so they will probably update it too.
I thought they said every user will have their very own special ID so if you change your name you won't lose nothing?
~ @JaMiiE_Londors
That is correct, but not in terms of plugins, in terms of inventories. The plugins were coded using player names and not unique IDs.
