Okay, question;

Can I use ANY phone number in my game?

According to Wikipidia:
"Numbers between (555)-0100 & (555)-0199 are reserved for fictional use."
But.. I'm wanting to have a little phone pop up in my game that you can enter phone numbers into and text the corresponding player (and i hope to have more than 99 players) I would just have contact names, but I want players ti be able to dick around with other players.. Like, post their number to in-game telemarketers and such. What fo you think I should do?

Make the phone numbers a different length? 😄

@kr-b I was just thinking about adding a non-existing country-code to the front.

@Cyanite or that! Just don't make them the same length as a normal phone number i guess 😄 and what is this game? It sounds cool!

Yeah either adding non existing area code or different length would be a proper solution IMO

@kr-b Hacking sim. Pre-Alpha, single-player only atm. Looks like shit, but i have big plans. It's bland, but playable in it's state. Check my GitHub on my profile if you want to know more. ^~^

Make a statement that the repo/program you provide contains imaginary info, data and friends. Then go for whatever number :P

You as a programmer aren't responsible for user's incapability of using the melted butter in their skull. ^^

making it longer is probably the best way to go

@Cyanite sounds cool but your github page is giving me a 404 😫

Everyone going to be: ermemremake it longer.

The wikipedia article applies most likely only to USA(and probably only to certain states) and their telecomunication providers, so that _they_ wouldn't make those numbers real because there's always someone who will try to stab a fork to DC.

There's absolutely no need for you to give a damn about it.

@kr-b Simon
TheCyaniteProject/exit_code_dev
https://github.com/TheCyaniteProjec...

@KeyWeeUsr Yup I agree...

Make it hexa

@elazar What?

@Cyanite Hexadecimal

@SHA-256 Lets pretend I am an idiot, and don't know what that is.

Care to explain?

@Cyanite It's an alternative way to display values (also called base 16)
lowest Value is 00
Highest is FF
Hex values are typical indicated by the 0x in front of then
you can represent colors in hex for example: #212121 would be a dark grey

In python you can use 'hex(int)' to convert an int to hex :) (in py3 at least)
It's a bad idea to use that for telephone numbers
(I am not a master in that topic so best would be to consult Wikipedia)

@SHA-256 I'll just do contact names x.x

@Cyanite haha that's too easy ;P

Why not just require that phone numbers be exactly 7 digits instead of 10+?

People can use their own phone numbers if they're not creative, and no one would be able to call them unless a user's location is public and reveals the correct area/country code.

I heard that all numbers that were like XXX-0XX-XXXX were nonexistent and have since rejected all calls from those numbers as I'm pretty sure that they are scammers faking their caller ID

@SHA-256 thanks man 😄

@thejohnhoffer
That wouldn't work. Because that would limit me to 9,999,999 players. I'll just use usernames as Contact names.

Text > "JimmyBob" > "Noob fgt LOL"

XD

Invent a 11th digit

@Cyanite
Btw what would be the best way to contact when I want to help with Coding (as hobby programmer), creating the websites (hobby Webdesigner) And creating graphics (somewhat doing that for a living)

@kaqqao Sued... where? :)

@SHA-256 my official twitter (@exit_code_dev) or my email (TheCyaniteProject@gmail.com)

@kaqqao I'm not bound to anything you tell me that's first of all.
Second, that is an application (game) that would use a random number generator to generate strings WITHOUT calling them or basically doing anythin outside the scope of the local environment of the machine the application is run at most likely without any access to some dialing API at all, which means it's not even a robot for calling numbers such as those for marketing campaigns. If a user is a moron, that's his/hers personal problem, but for such things a single statement that the content isn't real is sufficient (books).
Third, unless you have any real law that prohibits such a behavior, then there's this nice little thing called presumption of innocence and free speech.
Fourth, have you EVER watched movies that had TV with an advertisiment running? Did they have a callable phone number in there?

Also, with that logic let's make a law forbiding to generate even numbers of length 7, prime numbers of length 9, etc. ^_^

@Cyanite Seems like you have blocked private messaging on Twitter :) I can't message you

@SHA-256 There. My DMs are now open. ^~^