So confused about Account Tags

[princess]

Ok, there is an issue I have run into. Some of the accounts on my shard have 1 tag on their account. Others have 2, some 3. First, I guess my question is, where do the tags come from? If they are only done by admins and I have not tagged any accounts, how does it get there? Second, what do they mean? Like one says BanDealer = 0x8B8 "Bella". This account was never banned...The next one, is numEQ1 = 2....why is this? How do they get a tag with ChatName = "name" but yet their chat name is different from their account name. Maybe someone can help me on this.

[Shadow1980]

Tags can be set by scripts as well. (Such as my Referral Reward System)

The ChatName Tag is set when a player opens the ingame chat, rarely used by anybody. The name they chose to display in this chat is saved as an account tag. Other tags can be related to quests and other scripts you have installed.

[Aenima]

As far as the BanDealer tag - if there are no other Ban related tags, such as BanDuration, then it means that Bella unbanned the account.

[princess]

ok, i don't have any reward thing for referals, only id like to...great im getting myself more confused..lol but like how does almost every single account have at least one tag? do i have to basically go thru my script to see what quests are one time only to see if i have one like that? not sure if i want to do that one....seems very time consuming. and stressful. now when i went into that chat thing, i was not able to get it to change my name...how do you do that? and lets see....(forgive me i just woke up) oh i have one, cuz i had a quest (the baby quest) and to make sure it wasnt buggy i did it on my admin char and it says "BabyRecieved = True" so would all quests that tag your acct show up as something similar or would some be in like a code thing? sorry for all the questions. i had a player who kinda put me on edge because he was acting like he saw the staff when they were hidden. how would i deal with that? are there cheats out to show staff? are there any 3rd party programs that might do this? if so, is there a way to make it so they can't log into my shard unless it is a cheat free type thing?

[Shadow1980]

As far as I know you can't see staff as a player regardless of what program you are using. If there is such an exploit then this would be the first time I heard of it.
As for the reward for referrals, check this thread.

As for the account tags, you shouldn't worry about them. They are there for a reason and you can ignore them unless you have created a script to specifically use them.
"BabyRecieved = True" is set by the quest you mentioned to make sure it is tracked who has done the quest. Most likely to prevent them from doing it again. In this case they use the tag as a bool.
You can use anything you wish for an account tag as long as you convert it accordingly to int, string, bool etc when getting the value in your code.

If you look at my referral system, you will get a fairly good idea of how you can use account tags both as a bool and as a string.

[princess]

lol that was funny because i was just looking at that referral thing! and then you posted it hehe. i like it, and i posted a question about it LOL. me and my durn questions!

[Shadow1980]

That's ok

[David]

You can get a good search program like AgentRansack, and use it to search your scripts directory for numEQ to find which script generates that tag.

[jaynigs]

You can also use this attached fix for XP file searches, it will allow you to search through and find any string in your scripts.. using the built in windows file search engine, which would do the same job as david suggested but without the need for additional programs

[Shadow1980]

Originally Posted by David

You can get a good search program like AgentRansack, and use it to search your scripts directory for numEQ to find which script generates that tag.

That's a good suggestion indeed, if you want to know exactly where each individual tag is coming from.
AgentRansack is an absolutely fantastic program.