Virtue Name Problem

So I Deleted my Rockin Robin character to remake her into a hero instead of praetorian like she was, now the name is no longer available. I figured perhaps someone picked it up(which i find kind of unlikely) but when i search ingame nothing came up.

....What the heck happened?

Yeah I had a name and wanted to remake the toon (street justice). I delete him and then can't get the name back. I petition and they say the name is copyright. I note to them an alternate version is and not mine. They agree but say they can't do anything about it because they can't alter the filter. They then tell me to put it on the forums and ask a dev to deal with it. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Well that is just...crap. I suppose it could be copyright by the name of the song Rockin Robin but I mean if that were the case so many names wouldn't be available...

bah. How irritating.

Check on a different server and see if the message is in use, or not available. Not available means blocked by filter, in use/avaliable means that the name just got locked out for a period of time.

The last two names I googled were very frustrating (see my thread in player help for the long version) The 1st sounded like a copywritten character, even though the inspiration was from physics. When googled it was used to name a race in another game. Finally approved by GM. (Zerg)

The second was in my head for a few days, common english phrase, finally had to make a character. Gogled it this time. Was a character in a skit on Chappele show. I honestly didnt know. On the brightside Chappelle altered the spelling. I like Chappelle, but I have only seen 2 of his shows. To me the humor all seems to be the same, and I would need to take up serious smoking to be able to sit through the 2-3 seasons of that stuff. His black white supremacist was excellent, I must say. Anyways, after I googled it I cringed. (The english term is "Buck Nasty" Chappeles character "Buc Nasty" My character "Buk Nasty") Anyways, since I am running a giant white guy with Red hair who keeps trying to get into Longbow (and failing) and want to be a hero, and Chapelle has a black playa of low morals I think I m on solid ground.

But seriously, I think I am creative. Its just that as soon as you find something short, punchy, memorable, and fitting, google it. With all of human knowledge documented and at your fingertips there is a good chance some guy (like that hack Shakespear, he took my Puck!) has used it before.

I understand CoXs position. Its just that it gets frustrating sometimes. I made up a villain fr a champions game my wife was running (old school, tabletop, dice) I named the characte "Scourge" Not original, but very fitting. He had set out with the goal of becoming a scourge to humanity, greatest riminal of ll time, yadda yada. I made him in the city, ended up calling him "Scourge 23" ran him for 6 months, had billions in his build, with that dumb name.

I should make names in advance, but my problem is once I start working on a concept I drop all that I am doing until the character is made. Conversely, when I decide to make a new character I really want to get the concept done, and sometimes that seems to mean forcing the name too fast. This is only exascerbated by the name filter in CoX and the fact there there is 7 years worth of names already claimed on peoples accounts. (Many of whom will never log into the city again..)

If it's allowing Rockin' Robin, then it might be that the server hadn't let go of your deleted character's name by the time you tried to remake.

I started to do name checks on Exalted since it's the newest server.