Why change the fleet carrier IDs? Mine was W31-KON before the patch and now it's J5L-GXQ.
And I just posted a promo video for mine carrier
And I just posted a promo video for mine carrier
Carrier ID changed after patch
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Oh wow! Duplicate IDs?! That is a beginner mistake in database management. Seriously, Frontier...
Lol, why? Its just a code, not a technical id. Primary keys can't have duplicates, in any relational database.
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It's probably a hash of whatever UID your CMDR records have and they didn't check for collisions
foreign keys can though... someone forgot their constraints..!
It's way too short for a hash.
I never said that those were used for primary keys.
No you referred to database management failure, which it would if you technically try to identify something by a duplicate key somehow. If there are other failures, I'm all ears.
Yeah, FK's always are.
This indeed ☝
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unless it was a trimmed hash, which could cause issues like this...
People get fired because of this.
People even get mad because of this.
It isn't a piece of a hex string. And removing part of a hash string would make it totally useless, no one would do that.
What gave it away?
The fact you didn't saw this one:
Change the Carrier IDs back
Dear Frontier, thanks for the updates. But the last one changed the unchangeable Carrier-IDs. Call me crazy, but is not my Carrier anymore. I buyed it, because I liked the old ID very much for reasons. Names are something, that is written in stone in Elite. Everybody knows, if you care about...
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If you only want to convert it one way you can trim it as much as you like.
Probably not strictly a hash, though, just an encoding of some flavor, which they didn't check for duplicates.
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This is FDev, so it's probably a ROT13
I'm slightly mad because I made a cool video with no longer relevant piece of information in it... and they had 2 betas to come up with unique ID generator to assign to each carrier! Just... wow.The fact you didn't saw this one:
Change the Carrier IDs back
Dear Frontier, thanks for the updates. But the last one changed the unchangeable Carrier-IDs. Call me crazy, but is not my Carrier anymore. I buyed it, because I liked the old ID very much for reasons. Names are something, that is written in stone in Elite. Everybody knows, if you care about...forums.frontier.co.uk
noone would forget to put the constraint on a particularly important key either..... oh wait...