by MagicManICT » Tue Sep 08, 2015 9:03 pm
I think I know what he's talking about. There was a bug a while back where Player A could delete the name of Player B in his Kin list and leave it blank (null field) or as white space. It would cause client weirdness and crashes if Player B showed up in the scene. The only fix was to replace the missing name field with something, even a single character, or remove that player from the Kin list. Seems like a fix was found so that a blank name wasn't left as a blank. (It was back during Salem development if I recall correctly.)
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