Question about the name of the pet~~

[j0n4th4n]

Does anyone knows that could i put a space inside my pet's name??
thx~

[Zero!]

You used to be able to a long time ago, I have no idea how but you could, unfortunately there is no way to put a space in it anymore, just an underscore (_).

[Runevalkyrie]

You used to be able to a long time ago, I have no idea how but you could, unfortunately there is no way to put a space in it anymore, just an underscore (_).

I believe it was because the database back then was different copmpared to what Neo runs currently.

[Mokona]

Wasn't that something to do with the grundo adoption agency? I have a friend who got a grundo that had spaces in his name :/ he's now a darigan ixi though XD

[Johnnydontgo]

Grundos can still be named things with spaces and puncutation signs, I believe. But that's exclusive to the Grundo species.

[autechre]

hmm can you do it with krawks? the petpets, and you name them with a space, and then feed them fungus?

[Alex]

Grundos can still be named things with spaces and puncutation signs, I believe. But that's exclusive to the Grundo species.

Can you do that, then morph your pet?

[Shifty]

Grundos can still be named things with spaces and puncutation signs, I believe. But that's exclusive to the Grundo species.

I tried a few months ago... But it didn't work. Although I do think the space only worked with grundos, and anyone who doesn't have a grundo but has a space in the name must have labbed or morphed the pet.

[HollyPop]

Yep, people created pets from the Grundo adoption thingy with spaces and punctuation in their names - there's a pet called . for instance, and one called Full Moon.

I don't see why, since these pets don't seem to mess up the database in any way, they dont let us do that now?

Those were the days :/

[Johnnydontgo]

Yep, people created pets from the Grundo adoption thingy with spaces and punctuation in their names - there's a pet called . for instance, and one called Full Moon.

I don't see why, since these pets don't seem to mess up the database in any way, they dont let us do that now?

Those were the days :/

LOL... It wasn't really that long ago, was it? Jeez, you're making me feel old...

[Hunter Lupe]

I don't see why, since these pets don't seem to mess up the database in any way, they dont let us do that now?

It's not so much the database, as the expected value range for the field. By restricting you to [a-Z0-9_], they're making sure that you can't "sneak" stuff into your petname that would cause scripts to break on you (generally a nice idea). It's weird that they don't use the same checking technique on both the "create a pet" page and multiple other places where you can create one (although explainable for krawks, if petpets originally weren't meant to be pets).

[digitel_anime_fan_20]

Another reason why spaces arn't a good thing though: Regardless of whether or not they affect the database, people could take the user name of a respectible citizen(Example: Good Guys Rock) And put an extra space somewher(so: Good Guys Rock) theres an extra space between good and guys. see the problem? A scammer could take such a username, and pretend to be the good guy. :/

Though the same sort of thing can happen with underscores(Good_Guys_Rock and Good__Guys_rock) If your paying attention you can see the differance, while an extra space might be missed.

Edit: It won't LET me put the extra space in, drat it all! >_<