Coin

Yeah, we knew you were coming and got that sorted out early

In defence of Virtue (Cos she's lovely and all ) Is the US @Virtue still playing the game? Do they have over 75 months of Vet Rewards to show for it? How do you know they didn't play for 3 years and then drop their sub? Or even just a few months? Or even just a month??

Why should a long-temr player who has shown the loyalty to the game and paid her subs and dues, lose out to a player who may no longer be active?

If the US @Virtue has been there on global since it went live, then fair play, they can make a fair claim to the name, but without that evidence, Virt has every right to feel agrieved atm. I know I would have felt the same if it happened to me.

It's possible, to be fair, and we had the thought that one of our DJ's who used to play on the US servers may have created it when he was there, we're looking into it now, but yup, good point.

Zwillinger, same thing happened to me.

I knew there'd be a clash as I had the US version of @Coin on an old account, but my EU global, I logged out on Coin and logged back in to find my changed global was @DJ Coin, who I haven't been on for a week.

I suspect I know the answer though. If they were reducing the letters, it would have reduced it to @Coi which I think would have been too short? Perhaps the system defaulted to the last other character?

On a seperate note, nice to see some git in the US decided to play silly beggars with the global channels. Someone has created a Rogues Radio channel in the US, meaning that our channel in the EU has been renamed.......thanks for that, whichever pillock you are.

Given that it's for the radio station listeners to use, this could potentially cost us some listeners if they log in to the wrong channel, I can only imagine this was some childish moron trying to grief us.

I'm guessing we're screwed here and I can't get the channel name changed?

Was just wondering that myself, actually. If so, that's yet another blow against the EU players as we lose the servers right across our busiest times and I have to log in after midnight to sort out my global clash

I agree to a degree. It would be better if players checked the forums regularly, with such a short lead in time, the devs might want to put the plan on the launcher so players know to check for something like this.

Devs and Mods have often said that the forums are not a good place for updating players on things, seems unusual for such a mammoth undertaking it's not on the Launcher as well.

Hopefully when this does eventually go live, they will add it to the one thing that ALL players see every time they log in.

I think we're arguing the same thing from a different angle now

the reason I added the bit about logging out on a specific character was from the FAQ where it states...

hence me wanting to log out on the correct character to keep the global name.

the principle is the same, log in to US account first, change the global, then change to EU account. If all goes well, which toon I logged out of shouldn't make a difference, but it would make it easier to spot an issue if I did it that way.

Seems the point is moot for a while now anyway.

Heh, you might want to scroll up, Globe, I already said all that in my first post

I appreciate it's doable, but it's not what I was expecting. I was hoping to be able to go into my old US account before the global merge and get it cleared up and sorted out.

My worry is that I don't know if there's a time limit on how long a global stays "active" after being changed. I seem to remember that a character name was tied to an account for an hour after being deleted before anyone else could get it, but I could be wrong on this. Just concerned it could happen with a global name as well.

I know this reactrivation week will work, it's just not what we were told was going to happen by Zwillinger, I can't understand why they don't want to start it a couple of days early so people can get their names and toons sorted out earlier. The only reason I can think of is to prevent griefing with numpties stealing global names for kicks, but with trials not couting anymore, i can't see that being an issue anymore.

On a seperate thing, it might have been a good idea to include things like the info about trials not being included in the original post to help allay any worries people have. players shouldn't have to sit through 90 minutes of video footage of the Ustream to find this out.

Nope, just installed the US version and checked, not working, so as it stands I'll need to be VERY careful on Tuesday so as not to mess up my own global.

Of course, given how often the devs and mods say that the majority of players don't read the forums, I can see a lot of angry people who didn't know getting their globals scewed

I know it's a week, but it starts the same time as the global list merge, meaning people with duplicated EU/NA account names will not get chance to change the NA global in adance, as we were originally promised by Zwillinger.

I think it will be possible to fix things, as I posted earlier, but will be a lot more awkward.

My point stands, we were told we would get the reactivation weekend in advance of the global merge, no we are not.

If that's accurate, that's great news!

So, why the hell was this not put in the FAQ or in the original post?

Edit: Actually, no, it's not great, the account I created wasn't a trial, it was a full account so I could get Passport badge (yes, I'm just that sad ) so my original problem still stands.

Regardless, why is the reactivation weekend IN ADVANCE we were promised not going to happen?

I'm very much in favour of the Global List Merge, I've been shouting for it for a long time and I understand the issues and problems it causes as well. I see both sides of the arguments and understand how people feel. But this now feels like false promises were made and the EU players have been ignored completely, again!

I've not had this e-mail yet, hence my worries as nothing was mentioned about it in the OP or on the website.

I'm guessing they have got the dates wrong for it, or it's gonna leave very little time for changing things over. Hopefully this will be cleared up quickly.