It's a hiccup in the program. When writing the code for a program a general name is created for the information created by the user. For example say I wrote a simple addition program that read like this.
(Blank) + 2 = (Blank)
Somewhere in that code (depending on the programming language) would be something called "userNum" or something similar to that. Whatever number you enter will be stored under the term "userNum". Say you entered 7. What you would see is
7 + 2 = 9
What the program is really saying is.
userNum + 2 = 9
Now it probably wouldn't show the answer (maybe some languages do? doubt it.) but you get the idea of what I'm saying. Say that in a long code like socom the generic name for your character needed to be inserted a lot of places which is more places than you want to know. Rather than having to go through the code and place your name everywhere and write 20 times more lines of code than needed they make this one pseudo name which allows them to change the value of that generic name in one place rather than possibly hundreds when they go through the code and change things.
All that said, the reason you are seeing the pseudo name is because the display command is occasionally not loading the players name fast enough so instead it shows the generic name that is programmed into the code. I can't really explain that part in as much detail because I'm far from that level of programming but that is what you are seeing.
If my explanation doesn't make sense I can try to explain better. Hope this makes sense.
Last edited by Ziek88; 02-13-2009 at 10:33 PM.
Reason: Forgot something and am retarded with the mouse....
Anytime that I see a weird name like this in the lobby, I've noticed that it usually means that someone is about to get booted, or someone just got booted from the room.
Location: On the edge ...... of my bed, about to fall out. Name: Call me e_town
Age: 18
Posts: 2,640
PS3 ID : Subject-17
Points: 4,312, Level: 27
Level up: 71%, 88 Points needed
Activity: 0%
Rep Power: 7
The dot signifies that it's accessing an object of some sort, and the setmercrow is a method. So, it's modifying the "merc row" variable/value of that object in some form or another when you see it. Out of curiosity, where was this shown in between rounds? On the scoreboard? If so, it's probably just showing some of the scoreboard output code for listing your names and such.
.setmercrow is the default name for the game for the terrorist side, basically it means there either lagging or you are. .setcomrow is for the seals side and means the same there lagging or you are. Just rebooting your PS3 will reset your connection to the game.
