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Pompmaker1:

--- Quote from: MegaScientifical on March 20, 2012, 04:49:05 PM ---No one has ID 1337. Therefore, Truce thought it logical to attribute the owner ID of Auto-bridge bricks as 1337. No one would ever join with it, so you couldn't destroy them.

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The D-wand can still destroy them.
Sevara:
What happens if the IDs hit 99999?

Since the key's [[A-Z][0-9]], the first 5 characters alone allow for 36^5, not 10^5, characters.  Since we know ALL 5 initial characters correspond to keys, it allows for (potentially) 60,466,176 keys.

Short answer?  Probably nothing.
Headcrab Zombie:

--- Quote from: Sevara on March 20, 2012, 08:57:17 PM ---What happens if the IDs hit 99999?

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When IDs hit 99999, the next one will be 100000. The only complication I can see is that GUIs aren't made to handle 6 digits. An extremely simple fix.
When the first five digits of keys hit 99999, that's where the issue arises.


--- Quote from: Sevara on March 20, 2012, 08:57:17 PM ---Since the key's [[A-Z][0-9]], the first 5 characters alone allow for 36^5, not 10^5, characters.  Since we know ALL 5 initial characters correspond to keys, it allows for (potentially) 60,466,176 keys.

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1, i, 0, and o are not used in the keys to avoid confusion since they look similar, bringing the combinations for the first 5 digits to 32^5, 33,554,432
Chrono:

--- Quote from: Headcrab Zombie on March 20, 2012, 09:39:47 PM ---When IDs hit 99999, the next one will be 100000. The only complication I can see is that GUIs aren't made to handle 6 digits. An extremely simple fix.
When the first five digits of keys hit 99999, that's where the issue arises.

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Actually, the current engine does handle 6 digits.
That's why your ID is 999999 when you play LAN/Singleplayer.
MegaScientifical:

--- Quote from: Chrono on March 20, 2012, 09:46:56 PM ---Actually, the current engine does handle 6 digits.
That's why your ID is 999999 when you play LAN/Singleplayer.

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He said GUIs though, like they won't fit right in the menus.
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