accountname issues

You may have noticed the problems for some people to log in since the last update of the system. This is due to a server internal change of the command parser which doesn't allow the characters
:, *, ?, ", <, >, ; within a namestring (filename issues on windows).

To fix this we change the name policy. Now only the following characters are allowed within a account name:
letters (a to z and A to Z)
numbers (0-9)
. (period), _, -

This means about 20 users have invalid usernames. These users may just use their old accountname without the forbidden characters.

example:
#m00! becomes m00
w.T-$n@ck? becomes w.T-nck or
<hk> becomes hk

There are some users who only have forbidden chars in their names. These users should email me. Notice that the accountname is not visible to anyone. It's only your accountname, so you can log in. So you shouldn't put any colors in the accountname, since you can't type them into the quake3 console on windows anyway.

[userid=370], [userid=592], [userid=618], [userid=645] and [userid=970]
should write a email to us, because they have to pick a completely new accountname.

I am sorry for the complications.