Help - No TK numbers?

[JonAck]

Hi guys

Apologies if this is in the wrong bit of the forum but can anyone help.

I am trying to fill out my 501st Garrison application form and am trying to find TK numbers but all up to 9999 seem to be taken. Can I use the TK of an In-Active member? The membership form doesn't accept 5 digit numbers.

Am I not seeing something obvious??

Can anyone help, as I assume there can't be two troopers with the same id

 

Any advice gratefully appeciated

 

Jon

[bluehickey]

If you check here: Listing of all current numbers you'll see that they aren't all taken, you just have to look pretty hard. And don't bother looking at all of the low numbers, they are all taken, you'll have to get something 4 digits long for sure.

[Locitus[Admin]]

I don't know why you can't have 5-digit numbers, but I do know that once you get your ID it stays with you the rest of your life. So you can't get the ID of an inactive member. It's theirs forever.

Edited May 8, 2010 by Locitus

[Terry19D]

Just at a quick glance, I see that 3093, 3094, 3095, 3097, 3104, 3122, etc... are not being used. There are more than that, but I just picked them out as an example. Did you use the official 501st Member Roster when trying to make your choices? It is tough to try and count through all of the numbers to see where the gaps are, but there are definitely still numbers available. Once a member is assigned a number, I don't believe it can ever be re-assigned, even if that member is inactive, in order to eliminate confusion as to which number belongs to whom. Hope that helps!

[JonAck]

Cheers guys

I did look at the roster but obviously not hard enough. I will return and read thoroughly.

Thanks for your help it is much appreciated.

Jon

[Daetrin[Admin]]

There are a few thousand numbers left. Your GML should be able to help you out.

[Plastic Fury[TK]]

Yeah like they said, you just gotta look. I wrote down about 10 combos I wanted and then searched and by the fourth one, I found it and was good to go!

[TK bondservnt[501st]]

shouldn't the legion provide a listing of inactive numbers on the website for users to more facilitate the selection?

[bluehickey]

Here is something that you might find useful, it was written by a member of my garrison.....

 

When I went to send in my 501st application, I got really sick of having to sort through the list and find the available IDs, so this is a little program I wrote in C# that does it for you.

 

The program accesses the online 501st roster, downloads it, and displays the untaken IDs, and some stats. If your internet goes down, the program will read from the backup file instead of the online list.

 

Right now there are too many available IDs to fit on one screen, so it also gives you the option to save the results to a file. It will be saved as Available501stIDs.txt in the folder the .exe is run from.

 

 

This is a very quick project so it doesn't have a lot of error catching or nice features, but it gets the job done. If there is a lot of support I may expand it to be better and offer it in the Detachment forums, etc.

 

Make sure to Save rather than Run

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5722474/Available501stIDs.exe

 

 

Edited May 9, 2010 by bluehickey

[SuperTrooper]

shouldn't the legion provide a listing of inactive numbers on the website for users to more facilitate the selection?

 

It's on the web-team's to do list. When finished it'll be a drop down menu of all the available TKIDs on the application page.

[Locitus[Admin]]

Here is something that you might find useful, it was written by a member of my garrison.....

 

When I went to send in my 501st application, I got really sick of having to sort through the list and find the available IDs, so this is a little program I wrote in C# that does it for you.

 

The program accesses the online 501st roster, downloads it, and displays the untaken IDs, and some stats. If your internet goes down, the program will read from the backup file instead of the online list.

 

Right now there are too many available IDs to fit on one screen, so it also gives you the option to save the results to a file. It will be saved as Available501stIDs.txt in the folder the .exe is run from.

 

 

This is a very quick project so it doesn't have a lot of error catching or nice features, but it gets the job done. If there is a lot of support I may expand it to be better and offer it in the Detachment forums, etc.

 

Make sure to Save rather than Run

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5722474/Available501stIDs.exe

 

 

 

This works well in linux with wine too! You just need to install the mono-for-windows library to run .NET code in wine. Just remember to run it in a terminal.

 

Good app!

[runewolf]

Here is something that you might find useful, it was written by a member of my garrison.....

 

When I went to send in my 501st application, I got really sick of having to sort through the list and find the available IDs, so this is a little program I wrote in C# that does it for you.

 

The program accesses the online 501st roster, downloads it, and displays the untaken IDs, and some stats. If your internet goes down, the program will read from the backup file instead of the online list.

 

Right now there are too many available IDs to fit on one screen, so it also gives you the option to save the results to a file. It will be saved as Available501stIDs.txt in the folder the .exe is run from.

 

 

This is a very quick project so it doesn't have a lot of error catching or nice features, but it gets the job done. If there is a lot of support I may expand it to be better and offer it in the Detachment forums, etc.

 

Make sure to Save rather than Run

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5722474/Available501stIDs.exe

 

 

Thank you for that! I was doing it the hard way, I copied the entire table from the 501st site and put it in Excel and manually added in the "holes" with highlights so I could quickly go through the list when I get the armor done.

[JoeR]

TK 421 Classified Record

 

I would be singing from the rooftops with that ID!!!!

 

Joe

[Rico[501st]]

Forget the 7830

http://www.501st.com/members/displaymember.php?userID=8436&costumeID=6