Removing unaccessed lvl1 characters

[The_Last_Dragoon]

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.

There's no way it can be characters having been played for "far, far more than an hour" since the solution being questioned (which was suggested by Alexander_Dragonfang) was deleting characters lower than level 10. Since you can't change classes before level 10, it would stand to reason that the time spent on that character ranges from meager to nothing at all. You're also trying to tell me that if a new player got their first choice for the name of their character that they wouldn't feel giddy and extremely excited to play the game for what I imagine is longer than just getting to level 10.

My solution was that characters who aren't max level in at least one class and are left inactive for a year should be put in storage and prompted to rename their character when they return. It's not like they wouldn't be able to keep their names since if they had an original name then all they have to do is type it back in. This isn't "new" to MMOs either since I've known quite a few to ask me to rename my character if I return for a lark after being gone for years.

Why on earth would that happen? I play a Miqo'te, note the apostrophe. It looks dumb if you stick an apostrophe randomly in a name, but if you separate syllables it works quite well. Correct me if I am wrong, but don't some of the lore based names, for Miqo'te in particular, use an apostrophe to separate syllables?

Try Cait'lyn and Joh'n. Use your imagination.

Naming conventions are cool, but it doesn't look good when it doesn't look cannon, and normally the people who want "popular" names don't want to be Joh'n Cooner.