i doubt it since premium can become VIP at any time and those characters would be unlocked, and premiums can pay a little extra to unlock them
only time i know a name is freed up is when the toon is deleted
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Or when the devs run a name-freeing script, which basically goes: All character names under X level on inactive accounts are available IF someone wants it. If no one wants the name, it stays on the character. |
Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
only time i know a name is freed up is when the toon is deleted
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When they ran it the first time, they set it to characters under level 35. They discovered that the VAST majority of the names freed up that way were under level 6, so the second time they set it to level 6. They've only run it twice that I know of.
I doubt they will be running another one of those anytime soon though, since after Freedom goes live ALL accounts will technically be "active accounts".
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
I just wish they'd do away with the current naming conventions and go with an open naming policy. Let our global handle be our unique identifier... let us use the name we want for our character. So what if someone else has the same name?
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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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if your sending a tell to the player, who does the tell go to if the names are the same? what would the return be if you did a /getglobalname on someone who has same name?|
Originally Posted by Kyriani
I just wish they'd do away with the current naming conventions and go with an open naming policy. Let our global handle be our unique identifier... let us use the name we want for our character. So what if someone else has the same name?
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just using a global name is not enough and there are too many conflicts with poeple having the same name on the same server
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Tells would have to use global names only, and /getglobalname would probably need a target to work (like /info), etc.
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Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
if your sending a tell to the player, who does the tell go to if the names are the same? what would the return be if you did a /getglobalname on someone who has same name?
just using a global name is not enough and there are too many conflicts with poeple having the same name on the same server |
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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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it would still be a lot of recoding to change all of the conflicted options to automatically use global name|
Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight
Tells would have to use global names only, and /getglobalname would probably need a target to work (like /info), etc.
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not saying it wouldnt be a good thing to do that, but its prolly enough work that its not high priority
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In the last year or so, Paragon has shown that they're much more willing to do things that require a lot of coding than they had in the past (when they were the Freem 15). I agree that it's doubtful it'll happen, but, at least it's far more likely to happen then back then.
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Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
it would still be a lot of recoding to change all of the conflicted options to automatically use global name
not saying it wouldnt be a good thing to do that, but its prolly enough work that its not high priority |
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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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There's a red name post out there (by Zwill, I believe) stating that the devs are not going to be running a name-freeing script around I21/Freedom, and furthermore that they currently have no plan to do so in the future (someone more passionate about this topic than I am can go hunt down the post if desired).
That said, there's a whole server full of free names being made available when Exalted server launches. 
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Never have been a fan of this idea.
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Originally Posted by Kyriani
I just wish they'd do away with the current naming conventions and go with an open naming policy. Let our global handle be our unique identifier... let us use the name we want for our character. So what if someone else has the same name?
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Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight
I wanna play on a Steve Super Team!
Scratch that, I wanna play on a Steve Super League! |
(Mouseover the comic at the site itself.)
Dr. Todt's theme.
i make stuff...
Oh, here we go.
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Funny... I read that this morning, but when I said that, I was totally referencing Marik and his ability to poses anyone named 'Steve'! That, or 'Steve' from the episode of South Park I'd watched a couple hours before that, where they found an ancient man frozen in ice (from the far back year of 1996!).
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Obviously they'd all be Storm users...
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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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My two cats had 7 or so kittens between them a while back. I called them all Steve.
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Or Steve from Borderlands. Heyoooooo!
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Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight
Funny... I read that this morning, but when I said that, I was totally referencing Marik and his ability to poses anyone named 'Steve'! That, or 'Steve' from the episode of South Park I'd watched a couple hours before that, where they found an ancient man frozen in ice (from the far back year of 1996!).
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Yep. Here it is.|
Originally Posted by Eric Nelson
There's a red name post out there (by Zwill, I believe) stating that the devs are not going to be running a name-freeing script around I21/Freedom, and furthermore that they currently have no plan to do so in the future (someone more passionate about this topic than I am can go hunt down the post if desired).
That said, there's a whole server full of free names being made available when Exalted server launches. |
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...&postcount=221
He made the post a few weeks before they announced the game was going F2P. Obviously the devs don't want any returning players offended by finding their names genericed.
Oh and I didn't hunt down the post. When he made it I saved it because I figured there'd be more threads like this one when whatever he couldn't discuss got announced.
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Always a good bet. Thanks for keeping that warm for the inevitable, Forbin. |
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Oh and I didn't hunt down the post. When he made it I saved it because I figured there'd be more threads like this one when whatever he couldn't discuss got announced.
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Just curious... For the subscribers who opt for freeplay, would the character names from the slots that they give up be open for everyone? If that's the case then it would be the same for the people who have been inactive for years.