Taken character names

[Hestzhyen]

While I think the player population is better off with less variants of popular anime and TV charater names running around, it's not a bad thing to free up names. Play it safe and mark the name as being "available" if the character it's currently associated with is less than lvl 30 and hasn't logged in for over two years. The name is freed up for other players to take but if no one tries to claim it and the original owner comes back, the original player can keep the name. If a player comes back and their freed-up name was taken by another player, they can get a complimentary name change.

This of course assumes that SE's system can handle such a process. Seeing the strain they're under thanks to a ton of technical debt from the failure of 1.x and hasty relaunch of 2.x, I wouldn't be surprised if they never implemented it. Look at how much they struggle with features players have been asking for for years.

[Miste]

The only people this could possibly get angry are the jerks who lock namea and NEVER USE THEM thankies much love fro sargatanis.

Much love? You immediately in your first opening post started calling people jerks if they don't agree with you.

You aren't going to get much sympathy like that and honestly since this game has first AND last name...if the names you are trying to pick are all taken then they are way too common at that point and you are just causing your own problems by not making something actually creative and original.

I use level 1 alts as storage I don't want to have to worry about them being deleted just because I forget to login on one of them for a bit or I take a break from the game. When it comes to characters 45 days is way too short to start deleting them and I'm betting a lot of people would get annoyed.

[SenorPatty]

One year limit is the only timeframe I could agree with this. And only if the character has never been logged on with. Otherwise, do not touch. Period.

[SokiYagami]

Well, I meant both side of the debate are logical, I think we just need to agree on a nice medium?

One year limit is the only timeframe I could agree with this. And only if the character has never been logged on with. Otherwise, do not touch. Period.

^ this sound about right, or go even further to raise it to two years. System should then give a free name change to those affected upon logging in.

[SenorPatty]

Well, I meant both side of the debate are logical, I think we just need to agree on a nice medium?



^ this sound about right, or go even further to raise it to two years. System should then give a free name change to those affected upon logging in.

Thank you for adding the free rename bit.

[Hyperia]

Thank you for adding the free rename bit.

This is exactly how other games, such as World of Warcraft, I've done this in the past.

[DeaconMoore]

How about no.

Maybe if the account hasn't had a payment since ARR.

Be more original imo, you have a first and last name with some punctuation to work with.

[TheGrimace]

Just deal with it and think of an original name.

[Rokke]

Its not hard to come up with a unique first + last name combo. If you aren't trying to use an anime/tv/book/videogame character or meme name you aren't likely to get hit by the name taken error.

[Nocht_Hazardt]

The thing i don't like about most mmo is that character name has to be unique. Can mmo game developers starts using other method to identify each characters in a server? For example autogenerated ids whenever you create a character.

PSO2 has this feature and I think it saves a lot of people's time trying to find a good name for their characters.