Hello ladies and gents,

I understand that Miasma Warfare forces a ending on nicknames corresponding to the country of origin of the IP address of the player.
I also understand that sometimes, an admin may decide to force a nickname onto a player, because of whatever (players 'hiding' behind another nickname, etc).

I don't know in which case I fall, but I have an issue with how it's working for me. From my end, miasma warfare forces me to adapt a nickname formatted as Gil-galad_(PT), displayed as Gil-galad (PT) in the server.

Overall, since it's the rule on Warfare, I have no complaints while playing there ; I have seldom changed my nick anyway, but there's something that have bothered me for a long while now. When I join another server, my nick, which I deem to be Gil-galad (no ending), is displayed as Gil-galad_(PT), which is not my choice or wish, because it's cumbersome and ugly.  Tolkien didn't write it like that, and I intend, when it's my choice, for it to be displayed like I want it, clean and simple.

The point being that Miasma Warfare changes my nickname when I join the server, because of its own rules. I can accept that, there's arguably some valid reasons to do so, in the interest of the players. What I want it to not have to change my nick manually every time I play elsewhere, nor for my nickname to be displayed as Gil-galad_(PT).

So I don't know how it's doing that for me, why my nick is changed on my local files when I join the server instead of just being displayed differently in the server. my end goal, here, is for my nickname not to be altered in such a way when I join other servers ; I do not think a legitimate solution is to change that manually each time I chose to play elsewhere.

furthermore, I don't think other players have to do that, to the best of my knowledge, and I’m a bit miffed by this possible differential treatment if that's the case.
If you could enlighten me, it'd be much welcome

I'm asking for the server to use a solution that is practical and results in my nick to be unaltered when I join other servers.

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Will try something else for a bit.

More frequent of force to choose less played maps but also allowing the repeat of more played ones more often too.

The problem with doing that is that the same maps will get voted because people log on throughout the evening and vote the same maps. So the people that don't enjoy them have to endure hours of them getting voted. There are so many maps on the server but half of them never get played, so I personally like the new voting system.

A "shit" map to you is actually good to someone else, so it's important the server carers for all players. I'm personally not a fan of small, spammy, spawn killing maps which seem to be voted 90% of the time. I get called out by some players for speccing them but it's my choice not to play.

It's hard to reach a compromise to please all players. Maybe you should vote random and hope to get lucky 

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