Removing unaccessed lvl1 characters

[Dzian]

I'd imagine it'd be for names. Maybe there's a level 1 cloud strife and they want the name....

they could delete inactive accounts characters though. would likely require an email notification to the registered address or something giving that player a chance to log on and keep it sort of thing. kinda like what they do with reclaiming housing plots but on a longer time frame.

that said I have a couple of level 1 characters that hold names I've used in the past or may use again in future. if I ever change race again.

long term it can become a problem admittedly. you can look at things like xbox live or psn, hell even gmail lol. where its almost impossible to get an id that doesn't have a million numbers at the end or some other babble so yeah I can see a valid argument for removing long standing inactive accounts / names.

[Kosmos992k]

I'd imagine it'd be for names. Maybe there's a level 1 cloud strife and they want the name....

they could delete inactive accounts characters though. would likely require an email notification to the registered address or something giving that player a chance to log on and keep it sort of thing. kinda like what they do with reclaiming housing plots but on a longer time frame.

that said I have a couple of level 1 characters that hold names I've used in the past or may use again in future. if I ever change race again.

long term it can become a problem admittedly. you can look at things like xbox live or psn, hell even gmail lol. where its almost impossible to get an id that doesn't have a million numbers at the end or some other babble so yeah I can see a valid argument for removing long standing inactive accounts / names.

I really don't see this as an issue, names are unique only within the server you are on, the worst that should be needed would be changing the spelling or adding an initial or something. Look at one of the more common female character names drawn from popular fiction, Asuna from SAO; there are only 2 Asuna YYuki's in the entire game, but probably one Asuna Yuki on each and every server. A slight alteration in spelling fixes it in most cases.

Other variations that would work would include;
A'suna Yuki
Asuna Y'Yuki
Asuna Yuk'i
Asuna' Yuki
...
and so on, and so forth.

This supposed shortage of names is a non issue really.

[MomomiMomi]

use the forename and change the last name.

Not an option for female lala lore names. Their possible names are limited, even more so because they don't have surnames.

I had previously mentioned 40,000 names. After actually taking a look, I believe it's closer to 100 possible syllables, resulting in about 10,000 possible names.

[Knahli]

Can confirm that I created a character on Balmung after weeks of trying by attempting to do so less than a minute before the beginning of a scheduled maintenance when many people had logged off on their own following warnings.

As for the topic... I can't help but feel that the chances of you getting your dream character name via a deleted character process to be anything but astronomically small.

[Ametrine]

Not an option for female lala lore names. Their possible names are limited, even more so because they don't have surnames.

I had previously mentioned 40,000 names. After actually taking a look, I believe it's closer to 100 possible syllables, resulting in about 10,000 possible names.

You can get many more if you start to fudge it a bit. Dewlala Dewla, for example, is a cannon name of a Syndicate member, but variants for that name are Dulala Dula, Doolala Doola, Dulahlah Dulah, etc.

The name generator is really just incredibly stunted for Lalafell girls.

[MomomiMomi]

Dewlala's name was included in my counted syllables.

[Ametrine]

Dewlala's name was included in my counted syllables.

I never said it wasn't, but I am saying we can go outside the limited syllable spellings in the name generator to get the kind of Lalafell name we desire.

[MomomiMomi]

I never said it wasn't, but I am saying we can go outside the limited syllable spellings in the name generator to get the kind of Lalafell name we desire.

Sorry, I should have been more specific. It's included as an alternative spelling, among others. But I may have missed some. I didn't include -h.

[Ametrine]

Sorry, I should have been more specific. It's included as an alternative spelling, among others. But I may have missed some. I didn't include -h.

Ah, okay, then that's perfectly fair.

[The_Last_Dragoon]

If they were to implement a system to "delete" characters, I would imagine that it would simply be moving that character to "deep storage" and would require the player to do a process on the website in order to bring them back out. Additionally, this process would require the player to "rename" their character because they would have been literally placed outside of the server storage space and would mean the separation from any housing, Free Companies, and mail they might have had previously. This of course would only apply to characters that were below the maximum level at the time they stopped playing, and would probably require the player to be out for at least a year.