Stonehead

Sounds related to the glitch in the costume creator. If you check for a name's availability at any screen other than the final registration screen, it reserves the name for you, and prevents anyone, including you, from using it. But the game only reserves one name for you at a time, so the workaround on the character creator is to check for/reserve another name, freeing up the old reserved one you really wanted.

If you checked the name's availability before the transfer, you might have been caught by that same bug. When a transfer automatically tacks the "1" on the end of your name, you're given the option to rename the next time you log in. At that point, what Gemesis suggested might (should) work for you, as well. When it asks what name you want, delete the "1" and try it.

Edited to add:

I just saw that it looks like you already re-transferred the character back to his home server, and paid for a rename. Just FYI: when the game tacks the "1" on the end, you have to log the character in before the game gives you a free oppportunity to change it. Chances are, had you logged the character in and removed the "1," it would have worked for ya. Not sure if customer support can help with this, but since I'm pretty sure it was related to that costume creator bug, it wouldn't hurt to PM Zwillinger and ask if they can do anything for you.




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If you didn't get a chance to watch the mega-ustream (or read the summaries), they answered a few power customization questions. From VK's 1st Massive summary:

I agree. It's a whole new experience.

In particular, I'm very happy that the starting experience has been moved to Mercy proper instead of Fort Darwin. Closer to the vault, closer to the black market, doesn't look like a hazard zone, and a courtyard that could actually become a low-level gathering area. Had the Mercy Island revamp consisted of simply moving the old starting experience to Mercy, it still would have been a great change. They did all that, AND revamped the missions? Nice.

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On the up side:

• Love the new powers
• Love the new mission tech
• Love the graphic upgrade
• Love side-switching, although I'd have allowed it at lower levels too

On the down side:

• Hate the vending machine robots as stores. Ugh. A real building, please?
• Hate the tailor who has a store but still works on the street corner anyway. Really? Did she lose her keys?
• Hate that Praetorian police can't climb stairs without getting stuck between the handrail and the wall.
• HATE the Incarnate System, in most every way possible. I get that people wanted something like it, but... ugh.

But my biggest complaint, even more so than the Incarnate stuff, has to be that they built an entirely new city instead of updating one of the two already in the game. They could have taken the opportunity to finish some construction projects, or start some new ones. Instead of a new city, I was hoping to see currently (mostly) unused zones updated and used more. Instead of a new, completely unnecessary city, I'd rather have seen a "cataclymsic" type update that moved the graphics of our current world forward (or backwards, such as what they've now done with Galaxy). I was hoping to see new time travel zones before another city. Or mountains. Or deserts. Or domed underwater cities. Or domed moon bases.

But what new zones did we get in GR? Another generic city. Sure, it's prettier, but it's still just another urban landscape, something this game was not lacking in any way. Even worse, this new city deliberately separates us from the rest of the game for 20 levels, completely cut off from things like super groups and radio missions and task forces. So it's not only another pointless city, but it's a fairly impractical one as far as the game as a whole goes, as well.

I'm digging the new First Ward in beta, as there are hints of other types of landscapes there. But in the back of my mind, I can't help thinking, "this looks really cool... too bad it's part of that stupid Praetorian mess."

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