diff --git a/code/boot.js b/code/boot.js
index 6a313f83..a771c4e4 100644
--- a/code/boot.js
+++ b/code/boot.js
@@ -338,7 +338,6 @@ window.setMapBaseLayer = function() {
 // included as inline script in the original site, the data is static
 // and cannot be updated.
 window.setupPlayerStat = function() {
-  PLAYER.guid = playerNameToGuid(PLAYER.nickname);
   var level;
   var ap = parseInt(PLAYER.ap);
   for(level = 0; level < MIN_AP_FOR_LEVEL.length; level++) {
@@ -531,7 +530,6 @@ function boot() {
   window.setupTaphold();
   window.setupStyles();
   window.setupDialogs();
-  window.setupPlayerNameCache();
   window.setupMap();
   window.setupGeosearch();
   window.setupRedeem();
diff --git a/code/chat.js b/code/chat.js
index 822da914..31d7092d 100644
--- a/code/chat.js
+++ b/code/chat.js
@@ -284,11 +284,9 @@ window.chat.writeDataToHash = function(newData, storageHash, isPublicChannel, is
       switch(markup[0]) {
       case 'SENDER': // user generated messages
         nick = markup[1].plain.slice(0, -2); // cut “: ” at end
-        pguid = markup[1].guid;
         break;
 
       case 'PLAYER': // automatically generated messages
-        pguid = markup[1].guid;
         nick = markup[1].plain;
         team = markup[1].team === 'RESISTANCE' ? TEAM_RES : TEAM_ENL;
         if(ind > 0) msg += nick; // don’t repeat nick directly
@@ -351,13 +349,9 @@ window.chat.writeDataToHash = function(newData, storageHash, isPublicChannel, is
     if ((!isPublicChannel) && (!isSecureMessage)) msg = '<span style="color: #ff6">[public]</span> ' + msg;
 
 
-    // format: timestamp, autogenerated, HTML message, player guid
-    storageHash.data[json[0]] = [json[1], auto, chat.renderMsg(msg, nick, time, team, msgToPlayer, systemNarrowcast), pguid];
+    // format: timestamp, autogenerated, HTML message
+    storageHash.data[json[0]] = [json[1], auto, chat.renderMsg(msg, nick, time, team, msgToPlayer, systemNarrowcast)];
 
-    // if we're processing older messages, we could be looking at pre-name change mentions or similar
-    // so in that case, flag it so we don't overwrite existing name cache entries.
-    // (it's not perfect - the initial request has the wrong value here)
-    window.setPlayerName(pguid, nick, isOlderMsgs); // free nick name resolves. 
   });
 }
 
diff --git a/code/player_names.js b/code/player_names.js
index 7a4a6d82..4bb73597 100644
--- a/code/player_names.js
+++ b/code/player_names.js
@@ -1,96 +1,18 @@
 // PLAYER NAMES //////////////////////////////////////////////////////
-// Player names are cached in sessionStorage. There is no GUI
-// element from within the total conversion to clean them, but you
-// can run sessionStorage.clean() to reset it.
-
-
-window.setupPlayerNameCache = function() {
-  // IITC used to store player names in localStorage rather than sessionStorage. lets clear out any cached
-  // names from session storage
-  var matchPlayerGuid = new RegExp ('^[0-9a-f]{32}\\.c$');
-
-  $.each(Object.keys(localStorage), function(ind,key) {
-    if ( matchPlayerGuid.test(key) ) {
-      // copy from localStorage to sessionStorage if not already there
-      if (!sessionStorage[key]) sessionStorage[key] = localStorage[key];
-      // then clear from localStorage
-      localStorage.removeItem(key);
-    }
-  });
-
-}
-
-
-// retrieves player name by GUID. If the name is not yet available, it
-// will be added to a global list of GUIDs that need to be resolved.
-// The resolve method is not called automatically.
-window.getPlayerName = function(guid) {
-  if(sessionStorage[guid]) return sessionStorage[guid];
-  // only add to queue if it isn’t already
-  if(playersToResolve.indexOf(guid) === -1 && playersInResolving.indexOf(guid) === -1) {
-    playersToResolve.push(guid);
-  }
-  return '{'+guid.slice(0, 12)+'}';
-}
-
-window._playerNameToGuidCache = {};
-
-window.playerNameToGuid = function(playerName) {
-  var cachedGuid = window._playerNameToGuidCache[playerName];
-  if (cachedGuid !== undefined) return cachedGuid;
-
-  // IITC needs our own player GUID, from a lookup by name. so we retrieve this from localstorage (if available)
-  if (playerName == PLAYER.nickname) {
-    cachedGuid = localStorage['PLAYER-'+PLAYER.nickname];
-    if (cachedGuid !== undefined) return cachedGuid;
-  }
-
-  var guid = null;
-  $.each(Object.keys(sessionStorage), function(ind,key) {
-    if(playerName === sessionStorage[key]) {
-      guid = key;
-      window._playerNameToGuidCache[playerName] = guid;
-      return false;  //break from $.each
-    }
-  });
-
-  return guid;
-}
-
-
-window.setPlayerName = function(guid, nick, uncertain) {
-  // the 'uncertain' flag is set when we're scrolling back through chat. it's possible in this case
-  // to come across a message from before a name change. these should be ignored if existing cache entries exist
-  if(uncertain && guid in sessionStorage) return;
-
-  if($.trim(('' + nick)).slice(0, 5) === '{"L":' && !window.alertFor37WasShown) {
-    window.alertFor37WasShown = true;
-    alert('You have run into bug #37. Please help me solve it!\nCopy and paste this text and post it here:\nhttps://github.com/breunigs/ingress-intel-total-conversion/issues/37\nIf copy & pasting doesn’t work, make a screenshot instead.\n\n\n' + window.debug.printStackTrace() + '\n\n\n' + JSON.stringify(nick));
-  }
-  sessionStorage[guid] = nick;
-
-  // IITC needs our own player ID early on in startup. the only way we can find this is by something else
-  // doing a guid->name lookup for our own name. as this doesn't always happen - and likely won't happen when needed
-  // we'll store our own name->guid lookup in localStorage
-  if (nick == PLAYER.nickname) {
-    localStorage['PLAYER-'+PLAYER.nickname] = guid;
-    PLAYER.guid = guid;  // set it in PLAYER in case it wasn't already done
-  }
-}
-
 
 
 
 // test to see if a specific player GUID is a special system account (e.g. __JARVIS__, __ADA__) that shouldn't
 // be listed as a player
-window.isSystemPlayer = function(guid) {
+window.isSystemPlayer = function(name) {
 
-  switch (guid) {
-    case '00000000000000000000000000000001.c':
-    case '00000000000000000000000000000002.c':
+  switch (name) {
+    case '__ADA__':
+    case '__JARVIS__':
       return true;
 
     default:
       return false;
   }
+
 }
diff --git a/code/portal_detail_display.js b/code/portal_detail_display.js
index 3c31cb07..4a14b343 100644
--- a/code/portal_detail_display.js
+++ b/code/portal_detail_display.js
@@ -28,8 +28,9 @@ window.renderPortalDetails = function(guid) {
   var randDetails = details ? getPortalRandDetails(details) : '';
   var resoDetails = details ? getResonatorDetails(details) : '';
 
-
-  
+//TODO? other status details...
+  var statusDetails = details ? '' : '<div id="portalStatus">Loading details...</div>';
+ 
 
   var img = fixPortalImageUrl(details ? details.imageByUrl && details.imageByUrl.imageUrl : data.image);
   var title = details ? details.portalV2.descriptiveText.TITLE : data.title;
@@ -131,11 +132,9 @@ window.renderPortalDetails = function(guid) {
       ),
 
       modDetails,
-
       randDetails,
-
       resoDetails,
-
+      statusDetails,
       '<div class="linkdetails">' + linkDetails.join('') + '</div>'
     );
 
diff --git a/code/portal_info.js b/code/portal_info.js
index 5a85d4ee..56c47c23 100644
--- a/code/portal_info.js
+++ b/code/portal_info.js
@@ -112,7 +112,8 @@ window.getAttackApGain = function(d) {
       return true;
     resoCount += 1;
     var reslevel=parseInt(reso.level);
-    if(reso.ownerGuid === PLAYER.guid) {
+    // NOTE: reso.ownerGuid is actually the name - no player GUIDs are visible in the protocol any more
+    if(reso.ownerGuid === PLAYER.nickname) {
       if(maxResonators[reslevel] > 0) {
         maxResonators[reslevel] -= 1;
       }
@@ -167,7 +168,8 @@ window.potentialPortalLevel = function(d) {
       player_resontators[i] = i > PLAYER.level ? 0 : MAX_RESO_PER_PLAYER[i];
     }
     $.each(resonators_on_portal, function(ind, reso) {
-      if(reso !== null && reso.ownerGuid === window.PLAYER.guid) {
+      // NOTE: reso.ownerGuid is actually the player name - GUIDs are not in the protocol any more
+      if(reso !== null && reso.ownerGuid === window.PLAYER.nickname) {
         player_resontators[reso.level]--;
       }
       resonator_levels.push(reso === null ? 0 : reso.level);