Character Name Policy -- Thirty Day Notice!
By
0zymandous,
Posted on: 2007-07-31 15:59 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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Its actually you who doesn't know what hes talking about hedgehog. As a matter of fact, the last time the devs ran their script to release names from inactive accounts, I was able to secure about 50% of the names I had been wanting.
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As they say in the stock market, past success is not an indicator of future performance.
Even if I accept your 50% number as true, hedgehog is correct. Nobody has no way to know if any one name he wants is presently owned by an active account or not. I would much prefer a system that was more informative: instead of saying "this name is taken!" it should say "this name has been taken by an active subscriber."
Or it could say "This name has been taken by an inactive subscriber. If this subscriber does not return in [47] days, the name will be released. Would you like to reserve it?"
Or it could say, "This name has been taken by an inactive subscriber. If this subscriber does not return in [47] days, the name will be released. It has already been reserved by a paying subscriber."
Running the name-wipe script on a constant basis is a poor solution and it doesn't stop anyone from complaining that All The Good Names Are Taken By Lazy Non-Customers Etc.
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That is a pretty spiffy idea.
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Even if I accept your 50% number as true, hedgehog is correct. Nobody has no way to know if any one name he wants is presently owned by an active account or not. I would much prefer a system that was more informative: instead of saying "this name is taken!" it should say "this name has been taken by an active subscriber."
Or it could say "This name has been taken by an inactive subscriber. If this subscriber does not return in [47] days, the name will be released. Would you like to reserve it?"
Or it could say, "This name has been taken by an inactive subscriber. If this subscriber does not return in [47] days, the name will be released. It has already been reserved by a paying subscriber."
Running the name-wipe script on a constant basis is a poor solution and it doesn't stop anyone from complaining that All The Good Names Are Taken By Lazy Non-Customers Etc.
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That is a pretty spiffy idea.
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I too, like this idea.
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I think it's time for people to dust off their thesaurus.
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It is totally weak to force someone to create a character named "Language reference book" because some people who have not payed in over a year have on thier accounts on all severs the names, "Glossary", "Lexicon", and "Thesaurus" (etc. etc.) taken. THAT is the plain and simple point. NOT that they need to dust off their Thesaurus.
Indig 
, leader of the City of Gaymers
City of Gaymers on Guildportal.com
http://www.guildportal.com/Guild.asp...3&TabID=295104
I was gone for 147 days... Im glad they didnt wipe my names... hard enough to find decent names that dont result in "Name Already Taken."
And with that said, I like Hertz's solution. But I would put the time to 60 days. 47 seems kinda arbitrary - and maybe it was just a random number used for example...
Holy decrepit bat guano!
Someone throw salt on this zombie and get it back in the grave!
Blame Gaymer... >.> <.<
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Its actually you who doesn't know what hes talking about hedgehog. As a matter of fact, the last time the devs ran their script to release names from inactive accounts, I was able to secure about 50% of the names I had been wanting.
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As they say in the stock market, past success is not an indicator of future performance.
Even if I accept your 50% number as true, hedgehog is correct. Nobody has no way to know if any one name he wants is presently owned by an active account or not. I would much prefer a system that was more informative: instead of saying "this name is taken!" it should say "this name has been taken by an active subscriber."
Or it could say "This name has been taken by an inactive subscriber. If this subscriber does not return in [47] days, the name will be released. Would you like to reserve it?"
Or it could say, "This name has been taken by an inactive subscriber. If this subscriber does not return in [47] days, the name will be released. It has already been reserved by a paying subscriber."
Running the name-wipe script on a constant basis is a poor solution and it doesn't stop anyone from complaining that All The Good Names Are Taken By Lazy Non-Customers Etc.