| Player ID Research |

[Coderdash]

That’s kind of the point if I’m understanding what you said correctly

[Gimkitsuggestor]

Which in a negative way would make people interact with games less if we use it for more than save files and so

[Blackfox45666]

If those work like segments of a whole smashed together couldnt we just get a specific string from it and run a similar process to get the same result and compare it to somethin? Im still a bit lost since things have advanced here but i’ll do some research

[Apollo]

I just found the answer.
Edit: Nevermind, Toothless already covered it.

The player id is just the objectID function from MongoDB as shown below in a hexidecimal format:

ObjectId() - Database Manual v8.0 - MongoDB Docs

I have a lot of evidence too:

If somebody could run a bit of code in their console to confirm, that would be great.

[Toothless]

That has already been confirmed a while ago.

[Toothless]

@Toothless

I tried it out this might be the Structure of a MongoDB ObjectId. The first 8 characters are a timestamp. If we convert from hex to decimal and use that as a Unix time stamp (which probably would mean seconds since the creation of the Unix Epoch), then you’d get a date.

here it is

[Apollo]

Oh sorry. I definitely did not read all 180 replies

[Toothless]

That’s ok, I wouldn’t expect that. But maybe it would be better if we mentioned that in the beginning of the post.

When Epi gets time hopefully they can add that.

[Apollo]

In that case, what is this topic trying to find then?

[Boss_1s]

Researching ways to take advantage of the player id

Edit - and find out it’s structure (kinda did that already)

[Toothless]

@Boss_1s

Also trying to figure out uses for the rest of the ID (not the first 8 chars)

This.

[Apollo]

I’d figure that we’d end up nowhere considering everything else is either just randomized or a continuously incrementing counter. (Unless I’m wrong again)

[Boss_1s]

@Toothless

According to ai (we don’t know if this is credible, it seems like it)

[Toothless]

@Gimkitsuggestor

Well usually in A chatgpt case they have a decent chance of being correct. the only flaw is Bias but facts are more likely to come across as true

Not necessarily

[Gimkitsuggestor]

I said decent chance

[Toothless]

Machine ID doesn’t have a specific use, in fact it quote unquote:
Without a Machine ID:

• There could be collisions (duplicate IDs)
• Especially if they generate an ID at the same UTC time, in the same process ID, with the same counter

With the Machine ID:

• MongoDB avoids this problem by making each ObjectId partially machine-specific
• Even if two servers generate IDs at the exact same millisecond, the Machine ID ensures they won’t match

[Apollo]

Based on the ObjectID documentation, the Machine ID and Process ID don’t seem like they fit into the sequence though.

[Toothless]

Could I see the said sequence and how it doesn’t fit?

[Apollo]

I’m just basing off of the documentation, and I don’t actually have any sequence that proves it.

[Toothless]

Ok then, I mean, I could try researching some more. Still, what does the documentation say?