Character Names: The Good ones are taken

you should put a timer - if you dont logg into your char after a month it will get a duration of "90 Days" Before the character will be deleted.

So its auto delete the characters

somehow this way seem more fair, maybe people going on a long trip and comes home after 2 months, and the chars is gone? thats why it should be a set timer how many Days you got left Before you have to relogg the character, in my poinion.

Don't like the auto delete as I am a player that may take breaks for several months, but I can see the appeal in "removing" names after a certain period.

Renaming after a return would be sad but OK. Deleting the chars would kill my will to return.

That's what D2 did very wrong in its late stages for me.
(Deleting below a certain level (50?) could be OK)

To be honest, I don't see a problem with allowing more than one character with the same name.
There should be an Account Tag & Character Name.
Character Names can be reapeated.
Account Tag cannot.
Tada!

So you have:
- Account Name = Unique
- Account Tag = Unique, could be something you choose beforehand, or assigned to you randomly.
- Character Names = Not Unique

Problem Solved

Because, let's be honest.
Worse than having 5 players with a character named Sephiroth, is having a Sephiroth, Ssephiroth, xSephirothx, Seph1roth and a Sephirothh.

This way you just have a "(Bobby) Sephiroth" or "(1234) Sephiroth" when more than one Sephiroth is in party.
If only one Sephiroth is in party, it just shows Sephiroth.

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Nurvus wrote:

Because, let's be honest.
Worse than having 5 players with a character named Sephiroth, is having a Sephiroth, Ssephiroth, xSephirothx, Seph1roth and a Sephirothh.

This way you just have a "(Bobby) Sephiroth" or "(1234) Sephiroth" when more than one Sephiroth is in party.
If only one Sephiroth is in party, it just shows Sephiroth.

Much, much worse. Honestly, seeing a town full of brave exiled adventurers named Fluff12345, XSlayerX or Bulwark007 breaks the spell for me.

just goto be careful not to remove a name from an active account but not a regularly played character...particularly for those that paid to get into closed beta.

i support.

after second thought about it.
having same name in same server can cause some trouble such as pming . (if there will be trade tool it will also cause problems). suppose that you want to pm `goldenwing` and there are 3 of them online at same time bang! they need unique names :( .... I feel the same about finding character names but seems there is no way to do it :( at least I didnt find yet.

Maybe when mouse over name it gives us character id(number and its unique) and we can also pm(or trade) with that too.But I didnt feel good about that can cause bigger problems...

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tkots80 wrote:

after second thought about it.
having same name in same server can cause some trouble such as pming . (if there will be trade tool it will also cause problems). suppose that you want to pm `goldenwing` and there are 3 of them online at same time bang! they need unique names :( .... I feel the same about finding character names but seems there is no way to do it :( at least I didnt find yet.

There are two and a half suggestions in this thread that address that problem.
- first one uses your unique account-wide ingame name for all game interactions, name of your character isn't unique and is visible only to you (and perhaps to others if we get a command in town to view other player's status and gear)
- second one appends account name to your char name as an invisible tag, visible only if two chars with a same name are in the instance (this one has a problem of directly typing to another player, you have to remember both his char name and account name, or maybe it could offer you to select account you want to send to once you type char name).

I'm leaning towards the first one, but, honestly, both are far superior to recycling names from unused accounts.

An if they are working with character names, it would be nice to add possibility to use national alphabets characters in names...

Hey!players with amazing names came from alpha and closed beta,they deserve to keep their names even if they went a bit inactive,they're our veterans afterall.I am personally talking sometimes long breaks from playing and participated in closed beta myself,if you didn't,thats your bussiness.We had right to reserve names and used it.

Now back on the bright side of the idea, if it will only touch the LEVEL 1 characters and all level 2+ are assured that they wont get wiped no matter how long inactive they have been then I am willing to support this idea.