| Player ID Research |

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Hello everyone, as you might know, the player ID is a new feature added to Gimkit.
Yes, gettherikd already made player id’s, but the feature of the Gimkit player ID does have its quirks.

  1. It stays constant on game host. (when u rehost the game, it changes, but as long as you end, and restart, the Gimkit id is the same. ty to slim for this amazing find)
  2. Some parts of the Gimkit id stays the same, yet some changes.
  3. The character length SEEMS to stay the same
  4. The layout for each character seems to be the same?

Research Questions:

  1. How is it generated?
  2. Is there a relation between our player id’s?
  3. What can the player id tell us?

This is definently a important topic, as this can help future gamemakers shape their games to include more functionality.

Important Finds:

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Intrestingly, the host ID is the same as the player id, for this host.

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Using Chatgpt we could decode a player ID, and

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We discovered this unlocks global time, and opens us to new game theorys like idle income, live day-night counters, and more!

If everyone can send me screenshots of your player id, (3 of them pwease)
that will be aweosme.

Credits

Ty to all these amazing brains for finding all this fun stuff! I really appreciate your dedication to this topic!

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Please read the topic before posting’:

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might as well help here aint got nothing better to do since I just finished my math quiz

so player id right?
i tried tracing it back to the actual game engine gimkit was made on (phaser)
but it turns out phaser doesn’t have something the generates player id
so that fell onto the developer themselves aka team gimkit
meaning we’re gonna have to grab the id and try to look up the method
so it’s google time hehe :3

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so something to note during this
is that host id
comes from the url
and when I tried to decode it using a website it defaulted to utf-8 but it remained the same (probably failed) and utf-8 seems to be a totally different thing from this so it’s likely they just used a personalized method
but however it’s generated it’d probably have to be an answer we get from either the modders of this community
or the devs themselves

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Player ID
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Here’s what I know:

  • The player id of the host completely matches the host id found in the url.
  • The first 6 characters match of each player id for every player in the game

I’ll add more later when I have time for testing.

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couldn’t you set a property to the players ID, and set that in a popup, and then copy and paste and set that to your name?

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But you can set it to one. That what I meant.

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Here is a player Id for research if you want to put it in the topic.

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I’ve noticed that the first four letters are always the same, but I’m also sure all of you have noticed that as well.

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Yes and

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I have 3 codes next to each other for comparison

Then I have two which is the host and an alt

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Looking at the first six chars, i think that’s like a timestamp or smth

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Could the first characters possibly be a sort of key for the rest of them? Or something relating to the id of the host.

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It could be just numbering and untill it reaches a point it increases by one and goes again from that number just numbering the player

and by looking it might take a while for that number to go up

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Yeah, and that means we could try converting the hexadecimal value…

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Does the Player ID relate to the game code at all?

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Maybe…? I mean it would makes sense that that some part of the hexadecimal string is the game c0de

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If the code is part of the game cod​e, would the length change when not using the longer gimkit creative codes?

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Dont forget if it’s true they convert it to hex, so length prob doesn’t matter at all

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I just noticed that all these player IDs are 24 characters. unless I’m mistaken.
including my own.

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Wait, this is kewl.

Were the top 2 in the same game/server?
Because they all start with 6814 (which we know) but both has da behind it.
same for bottom two, but intead of (da) it has (dd)
was the dd ones also in the same game/server

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Top 3 were not in tha same server but bottom two were.

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