Character Names: The Good ones are taken

What if character name would contain a hidden prefix which is the user account id?
this would allow everyone to choose any name they want without any of these problems...

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Samantha wrote:

We're looking into recycling character names from unused accounts, so that they're available to other players. The details for this are still being discussed, but I can confirm it will be happening in the future.

awsome ! but ofc this needs to be planned out wisely since you dont want to delete a character someone wants to actually continiue to play - better just delete the name and give him the option to rename or reclaim his own name back if he wants to

Be a little more creative ;)

Am I the only one who has no problem creating character names that at least look reasonable?

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ps please ignore InfectedTecticle

if they are lvl 1 and sporadically used and not gaining any XP, then they are just mule for people that do not want to buy additional tabs (i can totally understand that), but not to block the name, why not put an affix or suffix "mule" to each one of that king of character it will free the character name of other players. Such affix or suffix can be proposed at character creation, and to be honest having that option won't encourage people to intentionally create mule.

In addition, I know it is freakingly hard to do that, but prevent player from creating character with bullshiting names. Like “IfuckedU” or like that. Or add a procedure to report offending names.

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Gicu wrote:

Oh c'mon people. There are a million possibilities to create a new name for your character... .

Read this thread again . Got it ? no? Read again

i got my names I wanna play with :)

Maybe delete all level 1 characters who have not even been played yet (still lying on beach at twilight strand) and who were made more than 1/2 yr ago?

The way that it was done in Neverwinter Online. You could have multiple characters with the same name, it was done Charactername@accountname. So even when using the ingame mail system you sent a mail to CN@AN. It worked well for 1 server and quite a few players during the beta phases. Was also nice for me having 2 accounts and being able to not have to delete a character because I screwed the build up on and was able to create a new one on another account and build it the right way with the same name.

Sweet! That's good to hear.