Occasionally, when logging onto a server or world after starting Minecraft, one's skin will appear as a Steve. Although the user sees themselves as a Steve, other players do not and note that said skin appears as their usual, custom skin. When occasionally this issue does not occur when logging on to a server or single-player world, once one dies, enters a portal, or leaves the world or server then relogs, the bug will begin to occur. This only happens to certain players, yet the amount of players experiencing this bug is large.
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@unknown added a comment - 13/Jul/14 12:52 PM
Most probably server in offline mode
The big question then becomes:
Will switcing from offline mode to online mode (or the other way around) reset player inventories and spawn points due to how the server handles UUIDs?
Because if you have a server that you use on LAN parties, you would not be able to keep player progression otherwise.
If player progression/inventory/spawn locations are changed when switching between offline/online mode on the server, I think that not beeing able to show skins for players (that obviously own the game, since they have skins) is a flaw.
Shouldnt playes only be required to be connected as "online" in the launcher to be able to confirm this to the server (even if the server is in offline mode)?
a little lag thats all