Please fix /assist main

Please fix the `/assist` command so that if the argument passed to it is "main" as in "/assist main" it will bypass checking for a player's name that starts with main and will instead always use your group/raid's main assist.

There is a player on Teek, I won't say their whole name, but it starts with "main" so whatever zone he enters he breaks "/assist main" because it will no longer assist your group's or raid's main assist, it will assist him instead.

And if this does happen to have the "unfortunate" side effect of people not being able to assist him by name, good. Better for the troll to grief himself than grief everyone in every zone he goes to.

CS refuses to address the problem with a name change, so the only option left is a code fix to change the /assist command to bypass the name check if "main" is used.

How do you know they did it just to grief people like you?

I feel for you, but there is a better way. Set your 1st extended target slot to raid assist 1 target, and keybind that slot. Its better because with the old way if your main assist is too far away it will fail, but the extended target list has no range limit.

For groups, I use /assist group. Works fine as long as the leader remembers to set the MA.

The same issue exists when someone names their character "Group"

Certain character names should be "reserved", meaning you should not be able to create a character with those names. I believe they already have a huge list of profanity that is prohibited, so adding all names beginning (inclusive) "Main", "Group", and "Raid" should not be difficult.

I know its bad and causes grief, but gotta admit its clever. Made me lol reading it.

This.
Also, targeting with a keybinding like this is pretty much instant. There is normally a bit of lag with "/assist main" etc. It was new to me that you could do this until a month or so ago and since I've been using it, it makes switching targets to follow MA on raids MUCH faster.

I currently do both btw, my main assist key is a social macro with "/assist main" but it is also a keybinding for "Target Extended Target 1" (Options -> Keys -> Select Category: Target).

This can cause some odd behavior because of the "/assist main" lag, ie. you will instantly pick up the target in slot one of your ext. target list, and then about a second or so later switch targets to whatever the MA target is if it is not the same (if you forget to set your slot 1 ExTarget for example). But in MOST cases it works beautifully.

I have to disagree, because banning those names would force people to change their names, and it is not an easy thing to do for the person. It is not like everyone who had them friended will know what happened.

Honestly, I would actually suggest depreciating Main as being a special operator for assist, as group and raid do the same thing more specifically.

I think it's pretty safe to assume that the majority players who intentionally name their toons with "Main", "Group", and "Raid" are doing so to grief other players. I would bet at least 90% of toons with those words in them, if not more. I wouldn't lose a bit of sleep if THOSE people were forced to change their toons' names.