Message box weirdness...

[Mindspank]

So im playing fiesta, grinding for hoes (dont laugh). When out of nowhere this happens:



Now im not an idiot, but I like to play along with people who do things like this. But what I was wondering was if this was a text box spacing issue being exploited, or is it not even a glitch persay and just some idiot pressing his luck? Ive been away from the game for about 6 months so for a split second I thought it was legit.

[Lady-Loki]

There is a GM named Frank.

I think it's a glitch.

[Enraya]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL I had to laugh xD

Yes there's a GM named Frank, but the name alignment looks kind of wierd ...
I've seen people space out their text and impersonate a GM before, which is kind of what this looks like ...

Also, I can't remember, but don't GM messages show up as a different colour?
One way to try and test this is to drag your message screen wayyyyyy out to the right/left, and see if the message "hops" to somebody's line of text.

[Vasu]

Naah, GMs don't show as a different colour, but their name shows as something like [GM]Frank, and not GM_Frank. It'll be GM_Frank in the forums.

[Blaaaaaaaah]

Pretty sure they're using text spacing. You'll notice that the same person speaks before "GM Frank" makes his message.

[Andromeda]

Thats an Impersonator you can easily tell because all of the Outspark Staff minus the Community Leaders have different colour text ingame when they talk. When staff shout their text is yellow when they talk normally their text is Violet/Dark blue

[Mindspank]

Now heres my next question: Since he realy didnt do anything other then say hi how are you, should that be reported anyways?

I think no cause he was just being an idiot but then again he could have tricked someone good with that.

[Icy]

I think the perpetrator is just joking around.

If someone really wants to, they can make the alignment perfect and use the proper [GM]Name form. There would then be room for malice

I can align them perfectly without using lots of spacing, hence, so can others. Precisely because of this, GMs now have differently colored lines when they talk in public, so that they can't easily be impersonated.

[Vasu]

You mean you can use "[" or "]" in a name?

[EdwardWarlock]

Lol this is so stupid. I hate impersonators. I don't really talk to anybody I don't anyway.