CelestialDragon
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Quote:Awesome, I hope you do write more. I'm reading through your character posts and just wanted to say that this:Originally Posted by Organica
That's really great to hear, CelestialDragon!
In point of fact I've published two short-short stories in my journal so far. I've been doing 3 types of posts to the journal -- "90 Day" posts that I also post here, "Characters" posts which I assume are more of interest to me than anyone, but I'm slowly listing all of my characters with pictures/bios and a bit about them, and "Grandpa Anarchy Tales", which are a series of silly short stories I did on one of my oldest characters. I have about 8 of them, and several more planned -- I haven't written a new one in more than a year but I'm hoping to write several in the next month or two.
I was thinking of posting them on the boards too, but I didn't want to clutter up this journal with them, so I haven't gotten around to it just yet.
I may still go for an archive of my other marketing journals -- we'll see. ^_^
"He had been a lumberjack, and had cut down thousands of trees, until one day when a tree fell in the woods and didn't make a sound. Her grandfather never knew what hit him."
is particularly brilliant, imo. And I'm liking the Grandpa Anarchy stories very much. It's something I've been planning to do for my own characters. Now that I won't be playing them so much I should have more time to write for them. -
Hi Organica,
I just wanted to say 'thank you' for your player journals, and everyone else who does them. I've been reading these boards for years, although I don't post, and the player journals you and other players have done have inspired many of my characters and given me the determination to play them through to 50.
Your journals though have been particularly important to me because of one specific journal you did a while ago and I wanted to share that story. I believe it was back in November of 2012 you were doing a journal for a project, I forget what for, probably the market, and you mentioned how it was difficult to find time for your NaNoWriMo project and your CoH project. I wondered what the heck NaNoWriMo was when someone asked that very question and I saw that it was National Novel Writing Month.
I had always loved writing but had given up on it many years ago and NaNo sounded interesting so I looked it up and I thought it was a really cool challenge. I was too late to participate during that November, but I couldn't shake the idea of writing a book in a month so I finally joined in the following year and wrote my first book in November of 2011 at 55,000 words. It was the first time I had completed such a major writing challenge and I couldn't have been happier to have once again found my passion for writing. The timing was especially fortuitous as I went through a lot of drama and pain in 2012 and it was writing that helped me get through it. I am not exaggerating when I say that writing saved my life this past year.
I've also participated in Camp NaNoWriMo this past June where I finished my second book and August, which I didn't finish because of too many distractions and a lack of a coherent plot. But, I will be back this November and hopefully will finish my third book. And it's all due to one simple comment made in a journal 2 years ago. So, I wanted to say 'thank you' and encourage you to keep writing, not only player journals for whatever game you end up playing in the future, but writing in general. As your character biographies show you have a real talent for this stuff. After all you never know when something simple can really help someone out.
-- CelestialDragon
P.S. I'll be watching your blog if the forums end up being shut down and I hope you'll mention any writing you publish so I have the chance to read more. -
Quote:This is because when you check a name with the new character creator it reserves the name for several minutes. If you then transfer immediately after checking it will show as the name being taken and grant you a rename token. Since the reservation only lasts a few minutes you can remove the 1 appended to the name and keep the original name once the reservation expires.Originally Posted by MaestroMavius
It may be a bug, but I'm 100% certain it worked this way atleast on 4 toons I transferred from Liberty to Virtue.
I checked to make sure the name was open on Virtue, if it was I then moved my toon off Liberty and to Virtue, using the 6 transfers for a $1.
The 1st time I did it, upon seeing the 1, I panicked, thinking someone had snatched my name in the few minutes it took. Upon logging in I got the rename prompt and removing the 1 was all it took.
Multiply that by 3 more times and I'm sure I speak the truth, like I said, may be a bug, but I'd appreciate if you mention that possibility first before calling me a liar in the future. I don't troll 'round here, and I don't post misinformation.
I can say that it isn't always like that. As I transferred two more from Infinity to Virtue and didn't have the 1 at the end the final two times. I just figured it had something to do with the specific name though.
Anyways, the fact remains, if they transfer a toon and then make another, taking the now free name, upon transferring back they will be able to rename the controller for free.