How can there be players with same name on the same server?????

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest.../3995343/#done

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/1568433/

It screws up Guildwork or XIVPADS when trying to link an account.

Character transfer issue most likely

Well -frankly -xivpads should not depend on the player / server names combos and use the character ID (seen in the url) instead.