Inactive names
megababy10
Posts: 2 Arc User
Hello PWI team/community,
I recently bought an Identity stone, however all the names im trying to rename to are all taken. Thus this raises the question if there could be a system implemented to free inactive names from the game. It is really frustrating for me and for others (I suppose) as I am very picky when it comes to names. I would also be up to pay a fee for the extra effort GMs put in to check for inactive names. Perhaps, this could be a service applied for via the ticket system. What do you fellow players think? Feel free to write your suggestions! I would really appreciate feedback from GMs too! Thanks for reading! ^_^
I recently bought an Identity stone, however all the names im trying to rename to are all taken. Thus this raises the question if there could be a system implemented to free inactive names from the game. It is really frustrating for me and for others (I suppose) as I am very picky when it comes to names. I would also be up to pay a fee for the extra effort GMs put in to check for inactive names. Perhaps, this could be a service applied for via the ticket system. What do you fellow players think? Feel free to write your suggestions! I would really appreciate feedback from GMs too! Thanks for reading! ^_^
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Not gunna happen.[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]0
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It surely won't if no support is shown, unless you're completely against the idea. The purpose of this post is to generate a discussion about this problem. Your statement doesn't generate any arguments at all, unless you provide why do you think that it's not going to happen.0
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First big issue with this idea: Incompetence. Even if the PWI had enough staff to deal with yet another ticket request, one bad day at the office could see you and dozens of your friends' toons randomly deleted/renamed. No thanks. They have enough trouble choosing the right canned ticket response to real issues.
Who's to say that the name you want released is actually inactive or is a hoarders old bank alt that they almost never need to log. Neither you nor the support staff really has the means to determine that.
Get creative. Finding a name has always been on the player.0 -
In order to free up inactive names, PWE would have to delete inactive characters, something they have the right to do according to TOS, but which they have not been doing since the start.[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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I'm against the idea and here's why...
* Inactive names do not mean the person will be inactive forever. I was gone for 4 years. I would have been pissed if my character was deleted or name was stolen (mind you I doubt my acronym would've been stolen)
* Impersonation of a popular (or even unpopular) old well known player.
* Friends lists with the player name. They would have to find every friends list with the persons name and remove it. Maybe causing some confusion to the players who are still active.
* Guilds, they would have to remove name from guilds as well. Also possibly causing confusion to others.
* Player banks. These are some times accessed only very rarely for certain goods. I had one, although now it's an official alt of mine. Still, I only accessed it originally once in a blue moon.
I think this list sums up a pretty well of why this won't happen and why I'm against it.Kernal32.dll error? Get Arc XP for PWI because PWE Derpped -->http://www.nrgs.org/dev/arcxp/ArcXP.zip<-- (Don't select the arrows!)
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Just because a name is already taken doesnt mean the player is inactive.
If i heard right. the name in question doesnt neccesarily have to be on your server for you not to be able to use it. the servers are linked to each other, which this helps with server mergers when needed, so even if the name doesnt exist on your server it may exist on another server linked to your server and therefore makes it an invalid name. I am not 100% sure that is the case, but that's what i heard.It's not how CRAZY I AM that but how much I ENJOY it that makes me DANGEROUS!
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Only Archosaur, Heavens Tear and Sanctuary have a shared name server. (Momaganon and Lothranis used to, before their merger into Morai.) All other servers do not share names.[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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SylenThunder - Sanctuary wrote: »Not gunna happen.
Yer... Sums this up.
More to do with the system and databases and your be deleting other toons and about 1mill other problems.
Try to think of a name that has a second part is my advise. so for instance. I Like HeeroFlames. but you get my example.
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I am happy that inactive names are NOT deleted. I would have been very sad to come back after a 2+ year absence and find my characters gone.0
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