What the heck is with server names nowadays?

Fawfulfan

The Tortured Planet guy

• Dec 29, 2009

• #1

It's the same story all the time. I fire up the MSLauncher, and about half of the servers have names that are at least partially composed by random letters and punctuation. Is this some bizarre new trend, or a problem with the Master Server?

 

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Kaysakado

Member

• Dec 29, 2009

• #2

this is the "secret" of colored text on the master server being revealed

 

Ezer'Arch

ArchPack 2.5 is on the way

• Dec 29, 2009

• #3

"Secret"?

http://mb.srb2.org/showthread.php?t=23453

 

Last edited: Dec 29, 2009

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Kaysakado

Member

• Dec 29, 2009

• #4

Hence the quote marks.

 

Ezer'Arch

ArchPack 2.5 is on the way

• Dec 29, 2009

• #5

Quote marks? Ah!!!! There!

*Ezer'Arch fixes his own post above*

 

Cue

ALAM STOP BREAKING THE S

• Dec 29, 2009

• #6

You mean ^1, ^2, etc?

Yeah, colour coding.

 

Sky The Destroyer

Member

• Jan 3, 2010

• #7

And there's the ?.

 

Srb2kirbyo

Goes by Kirboy in netgames

• Jan 3, 2010

• #8

I think that is the unicode. to color it on the outside if you type listserv.

 

Sky The Destroyer

Member

• Jan 6, 2010

• #9

Srb2kirbyo said:

I think that is the unicode. to color it on the outside if you type listserv.

Click to expand...

It's not... if you use plain text it'll work. Type this in your server name.

Code:

^4

Or...

Code:

?