A UUID can allow players to change their name that is visible to players, without servers and server owners forgetting who the players are. Every player will get a different UUID. Server consoles will see you as your UUID (Server owners can see your UUID as well), while players see you as your custom name.Your custom name is basically like a nick (if you are familiar with /nick you will know what I mean in this sentence), except it will show up in the player list and will show your custom name when you join.When you are banned from a server, your UUID will be banned, not your custom name. So if you change your name, you will still be banned.
Where can I get a UUID?
You will get/make a personal UUID at Mojangs website with your Minecraft account. You will probably have to migrate to a Mojang account from a legacy Minecraft.net account to get a UUID.
When can I get a UUID?
You will get/make a personal UUID when it is finished being developed, is secure, and is stable.In Dinnerbone's tweet he says that in the latest 1.7 snapshots we have been progressing to UUIDs. So most likely UUIDs will be up and running in 1.7, 1.8, or 1.9.
Here is a wiki page about UUID's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier
That's all we have for now with UUIDs and Name changing. I will update the topic with new information, spoilers, hints, ect. all the time.If you want to read these, here are a couple of logical ideas that could go with UUIDs and Name changing.
Friends List - If you know too many people to memorize all those UUIDs, what if someone you know changes their custom name? You won't be able to tell who really is that person! If there was a friends list, you could most likely name them what you want, like servers in the Server List, you can see: 1) What you named them, 2) their current custom name, and 3) their UUID (maybe).
Sorry if there are some errors in the text. Something happened because I edited it a bunch of times and I had to reformat the whole topic back to BBCode.
Thanks for the info, but there are a couple (nitpicky) things.....
1. UUID is an initialism, not an acronym. An acronym is when you form a new word our of the initials. Like Sonar (SOund Navigation And Ranging). UUID is spoken as the individual letters U U I and D, so it is not an actulal word.
However, I feel we will also see many more fake Youtubers running around...
I imagine that no one will be able to switch to current IDs. For instance; if the new ID system drops and someone decides to change their name to Etho it won't work because he already has the name.
Although one could seemingly spam the mojang account service with the chance of catching someone in the middle of a change.
I imagine that no one will be able to switch to current IDs. For instance; if the new ID system drops and someone decides to change their name to Etho it won't work because he already has the name.
Although one could seemingly spam the mojang account service with the chance of catching someone in the middle of a change.
Name changing won't be done on the auth servers. It'll most likely be an option in the profile editor of the launcher. That's why they're switching to uuid's; So that anybody can have any name.
1. UUID is an initialism, not an acronym. An acronym is when you form a new word our of the initials. Like Sonar (SOund Navigation And Ranging). UUID is spoken as the individual letters U U I and D, so it is not an actulal word.
acronym
2. a set of initials representing a name, organization, or the like, with each letter pronounced separately; an initialism.
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initialism
1. a set of initials representing a name, organization, or the like, with each letter pronounced separately, as FBI for Federal Bureau of Investigation.
2. a name or term formed from the initial letters of a group of words and pronounced as a separate word, as NATO for North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an acronym.
That definition of acronym is wrong. You don't pronounce the initials separately with acronyms. Pronunciation is what differentiates the two.
Acronyms = you say it as a word (Sonar, Laser, NASA)
Initialisms = you say is as a sequence of letters (FAQ, UK, HTML)
It is however, accurate to say that both acronyms and initialisms are types of abbreviations.
Even looking online for "acronym vs initialism" yields plenty of pages that all cross confirm each other.
I imagine the widespread misuse of the word (like so many others) is causing some dictionaries to cater to the lower denominations of its usage.
This is good news. Now I won't have to buy another account to get a different name. 1.7 is really shaping up to be a great update.
However, I feel we will also see many more fake Youtubers running around...
UUIDs on Minecraft (or anywhere else) are only effective for that application. A Minecraft UUID will not change YouTube accounts. You might see videos with people pretending to be "famous YouTubers" but I always look for the posting account name to be sure.
Name changing won't be done on the auth servers. It'll most likely be an option in the profile editor of the launcher. That's why they're switching to uuid's; So that anybody can have any name.
UUIDs are nothing new. The concept goes back to at least Unix, where people are uniquely IDed by their USER and GROUP numbers. If I wanted to change my name (as Administrator, of course) I'd edit the "passwd" file and change the name column for my account. Since my USER and GROUP numbers remain the same I keep all of my directories, files and access permissions.
The concept continued to PCs, first with IBM OS/2 ant then with Windows NT (Both written by Microsoft, BTW) in the form of SIDs, or "Secure IDs". The major difference being that the database was encoded so you couldn't edit it directly.
Granted, this will allow people to pretend to be other people, but the UUID, quite possibly never even known by the user or the admins, will remain unique.
Who knows? perhaps they could implement a "domain" naming scheme, such as "Server.Player", based on the server you play on... Since all server access is based on Mojang verifying your account, there could be a "Joe" on every server and if a person played on multiple servers there would just be an additional entry for each in their UUID record.
UUIDs are nothing new. The concept goes back to at least Unix, where people are uniquely IDed by their USER and GROUP numbers. If I wanted to change my name (as Administrator, of course) I'd edit the "passwd" file and change the name column for my account. Since my USER and GROUP numbers remain the same I keep all of my directories, files and access permissions.
The concept continued to PCs, first with IBM OS/2 ant then with Windows NT (Both written by Microsoft, BTW) in the form of SIDs, or "Secure IDs". The major difference being that the database was encoded so you couldn't edit it directly.
Granted, this will allow people to pretend to be other people, but the UUID, quite possibly never even known by the user or the admins, will remain unique.
Who knows? perhaps they could implement a "domain" naming scheme, such as "Server.Player", based on the server you play on... Since all server access is based on Mojang verifying your account, there could be a "Joe" on every server and if a person played on multiple servers there would just be an additional entry for each in their UUID record.
I'm aware of that. In fact, servers use UUID's already if you're on the snapshots. Name changing isn't implemented yet, but I'm expecting it soon. A
And I think on a per-server or per-profile basis would both be ideal.
That definition of acronym is wrong. You don't pronounce the initials separately with acronyms. Pronunciation is what differentiates the two.
Acronyms = you say it as a word (Sonar, Laser, NASA)
Initialisms = you say is as a sequence of letters (FAQ, UK, HTML)
It is however, accurate to say that both acronyms and initialisms are types of abbreviations.
Even looking online for "acronym vs initialism" yields plenty of pages that all cross confirm each other.
I imagine the widespread misuse of the word (like so many others) is causing some dictionaries to cater to the lower denominations of its usage.
Sorry, this is getting off topic.
I understand the difference now. The dictionary.com definitions are a little hard to find a difference between them.
I changed the word to 'initialism' in the OP now
UUID actually stands for Universal User Identification (ID). It is called such because even if you change your username it still tracks your account, making it universal for all of your usernames.
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The problem with the truth, is that it never lies.
You will get/make a personal UUID when it is finished being developed, is secure, and is stable.In Dinnerbone's tweet he says that in the latest 1.7 snapshots we have been progressing to UUIDs. So most likely UUIDs will be up and running in 1.7, 1.8, or 1.9.
Just hope swapping nicks is not TOO easy or at least that you can't easily use another player's nick. Some cooldown time or something.
In any case, ANY player should be able to EASILY see the UUIDs without having to enter a command each time. Simply, you'd toggle "Display UUID" in the chat options and/or command, and if it is turned OFF, you'd see "Bob", but when on, you see '"Bob (12345)" instead.
Otherwise, I expect servers chat channels to be seriously griefed all the time because of griefers passing off as other players.
Just hope swapping nicks is not TOO easy or at least that you can't easily use another player's nick. Some cooldown time or something.
In any case, ANY player should be able to EASILY see the UUIDs without having to enter a command each time. Simply, you'd toggle "Display UUID" in the chat options and/or command, and if it is turned OFF, you'd see "Bob", but when on, you see '"Bob (12345)" instead.
Otherwise, I expect servers chat channels to be seriously griefed all the time because of griefers passing off as other players.
Have at least a little faith in Mojang, I doubt they would be stupid enough to allow you to change your username to one currently in use.
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The problem with the truth, is that it never lies.
Wikipedia:
My guess for "UUID"s acronym is
FenixDowned's idea:
PopuliMinistrum's idea:
Here is a wiki page about UUID's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier
That's all we have for now with UUIDs and Name changing. I will update the topic with new information, spoilers, hints, ect. all the time.If you want to read these, here are a couple of logical ideas that could go with UUIDs and Name changing.
However, I feel we will also see many more fake Youtubers running around...
1. UUID is an initialism, not an acronym. An acronym is when you form a new word our of the initials. Like Sonar (SOund Navigation And Ranging). UUID is spoken as the individual letters U U I and D, so it is not an actulal word.
2. UUID stands for Uiversally Unique IDentifier
I imagine that no one will be able to switch to current IDs. For instance; if the new ID system drops and someone decides to change their name to Etho it won't work because he already has the name.
Although one could seemingly spam the mojang account service with the chance of catching someone in the middle of a change.
Name changing won't be done on the auth servers. It'll most likely be an option in the profile editor of the launcher. That's why they're switching to uuid's; So that anybody can have any name.
...but that's just like, my opinion, man.
I looked up initialism and acronym on http://dictionary.reference.com and they both have pretty similar definitions.
Acronyms = you say it as a word (Sonar, Laser, NASA)
Initialisms = you say is as a sequence of letters (FAQ, UK, HTML)
It is however, accurate to say that both acronyms and initialisms are types of abbreviations.
Even looking online for "acronym vs initialism" yields plenty of pages that all cross confirm each other.
I imagine the widespread misuse of the word (like so many others) is causing some dictionaries to cater to the lower denominations of its usage.
Sorry, this is getting off topic.
UUIDs on Minecraft (or anywhere else) are only effective for that application. A Minecraft UUID will not change YouTube accounts. You might see videos with people pretending to be "famous YouTubers" but I always look for the posting account name to be sure.
UUIDs are nothing new. The concept goes back to at least Unix, where people are uniquely IDed by their USER and GROUP numbers. If I wanted to change my name (as Administrator, of course) I'd edit the "passwd" file and change the name column for my account. Since my USER and GROUP numbers remain the same I keep all of my directories, files and access permissions.
The concept continued to PCs, first with IBM OS/2 ant then with Windows NT (Both written by Microsoft, BTW) in the form of SIDs, or "Secure IDs". The major difference being that the database was encoded so you couldn't edit it directly.
Granted, this will allow people to pretend to be other people, but the UUID, quite possibly never even known by the user or the admins, will remain unique.
Who knows? perhaps they could implement a "domain" naming scheme, such as "Server.Player", based on the server you play on... Since all server access is based on Mojang verifying your account, there could be a "Joe" on every server and if a person played on multiple servers there would just be an additional entry for each in their UUID record.
I'm aware of that. In fact, servers use UUID's already if you're on the snapshots. Name changing isn't implemented yet, but I'm expecting it soon. A
And I think on a per-server or per-profile basis would both be ideal.
...but that's just like, my opinion, man.
I understand the difference now. The dictionary.com definitions are a little hard to find a difference between them.
I changed the word to 'initialism' in the OP now
Here you go.
In any case, ANY player should be able to EASILY see the UUIDs without having to enter a command each time. Simply, you'd toggle "Display UUID" in the chat options and/or command, and if it is turned OFF, you'd see "Bob", but when on, you see '"Bob (12345)" instead.
Otherwise, I expect servers chat channels to be seriously griefed all the time because of griefers passing off as other players.
Have at least a little faith in Mojang, I doubt they would be stupid enough to allow you to change your username to one currently in use.