Clone on Another Server

Hello, first time on the forums; not sure if this is the right location for this but I looked my character up on Lodestone and there is another me. Same name, same preferred hair style, same hair colour, same race (hyur which isn't very popular for female presenting characters) and a level 2 version of my main class..

Now i would totally understand someone being inspired by my name or how I look, but this is a little creepy.

My main concern is can gold bots like copy user information?

I can guarantee this is not an alt I've created and forgot. Anyone else have this happen to them or something similar?

There are differences, unless you have changed your appearance sense finding that L2. (hair style, eye color, etc...)
That said, the "bot" accounts that RMT farming botter/hackers use do not go through the detailed character customization set up, and generally just use the default "Male Derplander" that the game client presents on new character creation.
They want to knock out as much gil as possible as fast as possible, so going through the character appearance setting takes up time that could be used to bot.
Occasionally, they will make a horde of "Male LalaDerps", but that is done just choosing the Lalafel race and finalizing the character, not going into the details of the appearance.

So, finding another player with your "clone" is more likely coincidence or just someone who liked your look.
As they are on a different data center, you and them can't meet up via Cross World, so I doubt it was done as a gag to troll you or such.

Well... Naelyn seems somehow a popular name for a character and Lune (and/or Luna)... is pretty common. Then to find someone who created an alt with the same pair forname/name than yours is not that surprising.

Many players create name based on how it sounds. There's nothing surprising nor creepy. I had alts (deleted since) who accidentaly had the same forname than other characters.

It's even mundane if you consider how many players (and far more if you consider characters and alts) play FFXIV since 2013 (or 2011).

This made me curious to see how many other Astrids there are out there! Looks like only 6 total.

Only one Gale Valerian.

I originally went with this to create the most obnoxiously FF name possible, I am surprised there is only one on Lodestone.

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Originally Posted by Ayuhra

the most obnoxiously FF name possible . . ..

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Not xSpehirothx Darkcloud?

:3

Forum trolls have me so traumatised that whenever I see a level 80 WHM with 1 post I need to go verify on the Lodestone.

Yay. I'm the only one of me :D

I would be flattered if there was a veritable army of Caurs running around.

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Originally Posted by Gameovers

Yay. I'm the only one of me :D

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That's because of Server Limitations... :D

PS : Yeah, I know, I exit :p

The longer you're on the internet and in the world, the more likely it becomes that you run into other people using your made up name(s).

Before I made Vicious, I had the name Vyre. In XIV it's Vyre Vahzl. It was my Runescape name back in 2002, and an elongated version, Vyrerus too. I was Vyre on Asura in FFXI. I'd been using it as a fantasy name since Breath of Fire II in the mid-late 90s. Lotta people think I got it from the Dark Adonis, Vyers, from Disgaea (Love him, but no).

So I've been Vyre for about 25 years. It's even in my email addresses.

Nowadays there's tons of people with it as a first or last name. There's the Vyrewatch in Runescape. There's some black metal band named VYRE. There's a business association. There's all sorts of stuff with what I thought was mine, just all over the place. Recently in some famous novelist's work, he made some guy change his name to Vyre. Stormlight Archive, I guess?

It's always a trip.

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Originally Posted by Eldevern

That's because of Server Limitations... :D

PS : Yeah, I know, I exit :p

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lol. Walked into that one. You know I got blamed for the patch when people were stuck on Balmung. so unfair lol.

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Originally Posted by Gameovers

Yay. I'm the only one of me :D

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Strange. I thought we had a lot of server limitations. :p

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

Strange. I thought we had a lot of server limitations. :p

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Hey! EASY. :O

lol

I made a character called Saefinn Liljasdottir. I wanted something Scandinavian, 'Saefinn' is an Icelandic name and the the surname is of course "daughter of Lilja" the Lilja part I made up on the spot because it sounded Icelandic and it didn't come from anywhere. Then the devs added a Lilja to the game, when I first encountered her my reaction was "....mum?" Even better because I had made the character a Viera.

As for copycats, if the same everything else is consistent, that is weird. Make an enemies lately? Go Mandeville dance your other you, assert dominance.

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Originally Posted by Eldevern

Well... Naelyn seems somehow a popular name for a character and Lune (and/or Luna)... is pretty common. Then to find someone who created an alt with the same pair forname/name than yours is not that surprising.

Many players create name based on how it sounds. There's nothing surprising nor creepy. I had alts (deleted since) who accidentaly had the same forname than other characters.

It's even mundane if you consider how many players (and far more if you consider characters and alts) play FFXIV since 2013 (or 2011).

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The name doesn't bother me. The way they look doesn't bother me. The fact they both look like my character and have the same name is what's creeping me out. Down to the hairstyle. I used to use the "Aerith" hairstyle religiously. It seems way too much of a coincidence to just be happen stance.

But at the end of the day there's is nothing i can do. I mostly just concern about botting.

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Originally Posted by Naelyn

I mostly just concern about botting.

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If so, don't worry, usually bots are some kind of kgfkiriuf-like name or "johnqsfazefa smithqsfdqs"-like name.

About the name and look, I understand your point but that's exactly why I've commented : they were all miqo'te too with similar look to my alt. It's not strange to have the same preferences for the look if you have the same preference for the name.

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Originally Posted by Saefinn

I made a character called Saefinn Liljasdottir. I wanted something Scandinavian, 'Saefinn' is an Icelandic name and the the surname is of course "daughter of Lilja" the Lilja part I made up on the spot because it sounded Icelandic and it didn't come from anywhere. Then the devs added a Lilja to the game, when I first encountered her my reaction was "....mum?" Even better because I had made the character a Viera.

As for copycats, if the same everything else is consistent, that is weird. Make an enemies lately? Go Mandeville dance your other you, assert dominance.

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Where did this meme of Assert Dominance come from xD

Very doubtful it's a bot considering they took a separate DC, don't have any DoH/DoL leveled and are not part of a botting ring Retainer FC. It would also make no sense to go to the trouble of making a clone for an RMT spammer, since those inevitably get banned and are temporary characters, hence the nonsense or character generator names.

The most likely situation is that someone liked how your character looked and made a test alt for potential fantasia purposes.

Every once in a while I'll see accounts with my name on random sites/games, which blow my mind because I completely made Keramory up in like 6th grade. I just can't imagine someone would see this name and say to themselves they have to have it. GL even pronouncing it how my 6th grade self intended it to be pronounced.

Also odd my wife had a similar scenario, recently found the same thing happen to her. But only after she had a slight little glimpse of fame in a particular community doing social media.

Turns out one of my main names is a brand of Japanese liquor. It happens, too. I got it from WoWs random name generator for orc females.

Imora is really old, older than the previous one. The original Imora Dal'Syn was created in June of 2005 on Lucan D'Lere in EQ2.

I miss that server. Last RP server i ever played on.