Character names are unique per server, not for the whole game. All you have to do is check to see if the name is available on the server you want to transfer to. If it's not, you'll get a free rename if you decide to transfer anyway.
No, names are per server. You can check before transferring if you go to the other server and do 'check name'. If it's taken, and you do a transfer, you'll be forced to rename.
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Originally Posted by ShadowNate
;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!
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That would really, really suck if character names were unique across the whole game. REALLY suck.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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I wholeheartedly agree.
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Originally Posted by Aggelakis
That would really, really suck if character names were unique across the whole game. REALLY suck.
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Yes, it would be horrible and force people to be even MORE original.
I get chills just thinking about it.
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Originally Posted by Westley
Yes, it would be horrible and force people to be even MORE original.
I get chills just thinking about it. |
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I am incredibly original. I'm not just tooting my own horn here.|
Originally Posted by Westley
Yes, it would be horrible and force people to be even MORE original.
I get chills just thinking about it. |
I have over 100 characters. (Most of them I don't play very often. I enjoy playing them all.) The only character I have that has a workaround (he has a dash at the end of his name), I made about a month after I started playing and didn't care, cos I thought I was going to delete him. I haven't gotten petty cash to pay for a rename yet, so he stays with the frivolous dash.
Not to mention, I have Aggelakis on every North American server, with different power sets for each one for testing and messing around. Under the unique-name theory, I wouldn't be able to do that.
However, making names unique across all the servers combined is a ridiculous and STUPID idea. There's approximately 120,000+ subscriptions (using the smallest number), and the average number of characters on a subscription (the last time it was released) was somewhere around 12. (I think 12; might have been 10 or 14.) 120,000 x 10 (using the smaller number just for ease of example) is 1,200,000 names that HAVE TO BE UNIQUE. Instead of being able to divide that by fifteen servers (seventeen if you count the two test servers).
Yeah. Great idea. *drips with sarcasm*
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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I love it when people take a generalized statement geared at no specific person and make it into a personal insult against them which they have to defend themselves against. It makes me smile.|
Originally Posted by Aggelakis
I am incredibly original. I'm not just tooting my own horn here.
I have over 100 characters. (Most of them I don't play very often. I enjoy playing them all.) The only character I have that has a workaround (he has a dash at the end of his name), I made about a month after I started playing and didn't care, cos I thought I was going to delete him. I haven't gotten petty cash to pay for a rename yet, so he stays with the frivolous dash. Not to mention, I have Aggelakis on every North American server, with different power sets for each one for testing and messing around. Under the unique-name theory, I wouldn't be able to do that. |
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However, making names unique across all the servers combined is a ridiculous and STUPID idea. There's approximately 120,000+ subscriptions (using the smallest number), and the average number of characters on a subscription (the last time it was released) was somewhere around 12. (I think 12; might have been 10 or 14.) 120,000 x 10 (using the smaller number just for ease of example) is 1,200,000 names that HAVE TO BE UNIQUE. Instead of being able to divide that by fifteen servers (seventeen if you count the two test servers). Yeah. Great idea. *drips with sarcasm* |
Right, because with a 20 character limit that allows the use of 36 unique characters and equals 3,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible character names is just SO limiting!
Yeah. Too restrictive. *drips with sarcasm*
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Originally Posted by Westley
Yes, it would be horrible and force people to be even MORE original.
I get chills just thinking about it. |
*here's a blanket for those chills, don't make me take your temperature*
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Yeah, I can hardly wait to create xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxX for my next character! Or maybe even xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxXx!
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Originally Posted by Westley
Right, because with a 20 character limit that allows the use of 36 unique characters and equals 3,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible character names is just SO limiting!
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I have the same character on multiple servers. It's hard enough coming up with different names when I have the same character on the SAME server. 
I got a great idea from another player, though, and so for the Stalker version of my Scrapper Blood Wolf his name is Blood Wolf? with a question mark, like "Is this is the same guy? Maybe it's not..."
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Originally Posted by Justice Blues
Yeah, I can hardly wait to create xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxX for my next character! Or maybe even xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxXx!
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So, you'd only need four characters to fill the 1.2 million slots with names.
I call dibs on G9nb.
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I have 5 characters named Justice Blues on different servers. They all have different powersets and slightly different backstories. My main SG did a swap on one server where we each took someone else's main and recreated them, so there is a Justice Blues on a 6th server. But there will eventually be a character on each server with that name by me, to play with different powersets and such. Server merging would obviously cause me huge problems, since I would end up with multiple Justice Blues, all with the same global, and the same basic history.
Most of the rest of my 60 odd alts have different names, powersets, and backstories, even the ones that are connected to the Justice Blues on their server. I just like the backstory and building off of it for that character, probably because he is my main.
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Originally Posted by Justice Blues
Yeah, I can hardly wait to create xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxX for my next character! Or maybe even xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxXx!
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Those sound like good names for alien androids to me.
Actually, my alien android is named 47499.
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I love it when people think that I am taking personal insult when I don't say that I am. The internet doesn't convey emotion. Take my posts as having no emotion, and you've come pretty close to how I always post, unless I'm putting a bunch of punctuation in.
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Originally Posted by Westley
I love it when people take a generalized statement geared at no specific person and make it into a personal insult against them which they have to defend themselves against. It makes me smile.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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Originally Posted by Aggelakis
I love it when people think that I am taking personal insult when I don't say that I am. The internet doesn't convey emotion. Take my posts as having no emotion, and you've come pretty close to how I always post, unless I'm putting a bunch of punctuation in.
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That's why you went into a whole schpiel about your own personal creativity? Alrighty then!
I want to transfer one of my characters to another server, but it says my characters name may not be avialable on the new server. How is that possible? I thought that once a name is taken, its not available at all on any server.
Thanks