What is your steam ID?

[sdlufkin]

sdlufkin
http://steamcommunity.com/id/sdlufkin

But I renamed it to "BleedTheFreak" in the Friends display, though doing so doesn't seem to have changed my steam ID at all.

 

[Szpilman]

sdlufkin
http://steamcommunity.com/id/sdlufkin

But I renamed it to "BleedTheFreak" in the Friends display, though doing so doesn't seem to have changed my steam ID at all.

That's your handle on Qt3, right? I was about to ask if you had two accounts in here when I managed to demist the confusion in my head.

 

[Seven05]

Yes, though I'm not entirely sure it works properly considering the new account hasn't purchased any games (it seems to be a requirement before you can add friends).

Accounts that haven't purchased a game still work, in full, like any other account. The problem most people have adding friends is that they try to add the display name and not the account name as the two are not always the same.

I have an account on my wife's computer that has only ever installed free games and it works the same as my account.

 

[sdlufkin]

That's your handle on Qt3, right? I was about to ask if you had two accounts in here when I managed to demist the confusion in my head.

Yeah, that's me too. I'm hard to pin down!

 

[PieceOfMind]

Accounts that haven't purchased a game still work, in full, like any other account. The problem most people have adding friends is that they try to add the display name and not the account name as the two are not always the same.

I have an account on my wife's computer that has only ever installed free games and it works the same as my account.

Can't input any name at all...

Spoiler :

I don't know why. I tried installing Alien Swarm for that account but the same message (when attempting to add a friend) still comes up.

Doing the reverse - adding the new account as a friend to the old account - seems to have sort of worked, but both accounts still don't have the friend as showing up.

 

[Seven05]

You broke it

On my wife's account once I added one game (Alien Swarm in fact) everything worked fine. Now she have about a dozen or so random free games and has no trouble adding/removing friends and joining communities or any other account related activities.

 

[Szpilman]

Your default url to your account profile is what Steam gives you when you first register. What most of these people have done is go into thier profile settings and customized their URL to include their profile name. Nothing earth shattering, the only reason I've posted the info I did is that Steam lets players change their display name to just about anything, and in the soon to be common MP games you won't neccesarily know the real name of that person unless they let you add them as friends and then you can look up their profiles and do a little translation. This is actually the biggest thing I dislike about Steam is the difficultly in identifying players at times.( I can live with DLC and DRM)

At Civplayers we plan to engineer a mod after release that verifies players identity but hooking directly into the Steam API and using the Steam 64 bit ID that the API gives us to verify a player is who they say they are. And cross referencing this to the CivPlayers player database.

For anyone interested the Steam API does do quit a bit for programmers.

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_browser_protocol

CS

That's interesting, is there any third-party software that allows you to chat with Steam friends (like multi-protocol IM clients)? It's got me interested in integrating it into a personal little software I've been working on.

 

[Senethro]

Valve don't allow accounts that haven't bought a game to add friends so that spammers can't spam you without at least giving them some money.

 

[mjs0]

Pay-to-spam...an idea so evil only Steam could come up with it.

 

[eris]

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198025523848

So will this let me join the Civfanatics community. Also new to Steam here.

In that world, I am "nobody", my favorite player name. Leads to messages like "nobody has just built the pyramids".

 

[Me,myself,and,I]

I like to be the president. So and so assassinated the president, the president beat down so and so, etc. Or sometimes The Boss.

 

[Maniacal]

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198025523848

So will this let me join the Civfanatics community. Also new to Steam here.

There isn't an official CFC group, but there are at least two or three Civ5 groups I've seen and the public (unofficial) CFC steam group below (and in my sig) which you are more than welcome to join.
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/CFCforums

 

[Azazell]

Help me! How to change size my avatar on the steam profil? ;/ (is to large)

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198023101045 - this Avatar is sux ;/

 

[Maniacal]

Go to your profile (community tab in Steam), and go to Edit My Profile and scroll down. The size of the picture in your profile will always be 184x184. The two smaller versions shown are what it looks like in the friends list and in ingame score menus (for TF2 only afaik, maybe CSS now too). You can upload any pic you want for an avatar, however I don't suggest using a picture much smaller than 184x184 pixels as it will be enlarged in your profile as you can see.

 

[Szpilman]

Added to user profiles.

Since everyone playing Civ V will have a Steam account, wouldn't it be handy to have the steam usernames below our Avatar/location/post count etc? It could already be an hyperlink, and whoever didn't want theirs to show up just wouldn't put it in the forum profile in the first place.