Quote Originally Posted by The_Last_Dragoon View Post
I'm just calling into question how valuable that character could be to a player who plays it for an hour and then leaves the game for half a year.
Well, for one thing, that character may have been played for far, far more than an hour, but even taking your case of a character that's only been played for an hour, it's still an hour more than the character that hasn't been created yet. The one with no ties at all can get a different name more easily than the one that already started with the name it has. With effectively no limit to the available names, there's no conflict that needs a deletion to resolve it.