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Old 11-27-2009, 06:56 AM
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I have always gotten the feeling that the new system was to work like so:

Graal12345 accounts were supposed to be for system and data checking. A static and reliable value. This is something that should be completely behind the scenes. Players should never have to see them.

Community names are what players should be seeing. They are what players desire to see(their own picked names), and still reflect a somewhat-static representation of the player, even though they can be changed. However, if they changed, the data falls back on the graal12345 value, thus everything goes smoothly.

But like my last post says, it wasn't added in a seamless way and not much consideration was taken into account in how these changes clashed with the out-of-date client and tools.
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