Yes.
I've renamed many characters that way while in the process of transferring them, by making SURE there was a character with the same name on the destination server (my own level 1 if need be).
To be more specific, your character would show up as "Dust Raven1" and you would be allowed to rename the character for free.
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Okay, cool. I was worried it wouldn't work if the duplicate name was on my account rather than another. I have a level 42 "Dust Raven" sitting on one server that I don't play on anymore and would like to move him to the server I do play on, but which also has a Dust Raven (different AT, no need to get too redundant |
Originally Posted by Organica
Yes.
I've renamed many characters that way while in the process of transferring them, by making SURE there was a character with the same name on the destination server (my own level 1 if need be). To be more specific, your character would show up as "Dust Raven1" and you would be allowed to rename the character for free. |
). I didn't want to have to use a character transfer token only to find I also needed to pay for a rename too.Thanks!
As example:
I had Serpentine Fire on Freedom long ago... transferred to Virtue where I played more often, but I still didn't play this particular character (fire/fire blaster). On Virtue the name was taken and I had to go with Serpentine-Fire instead. This last year I decided to place a 50 on Union, and so Serpentine-Fire got transferred again, but by making a Serpentine-Fire on Union I was able to claim the name Serpentine Fire again (since it was free). 
Second example: I used to have the name Shinobu on Pinnacle, and it's my global name. But after I came back to the game I transferred Shinobu the fire/kin troller from Pinnacle where I never play anymore to Virtue. I had to rename the character... so I changed the name to "Shinobu Dragonfire". Which I came to hate. Anyway, I wound up not having the name Shinobu on any server despite it being my global.
I also had a level 50 MA/Invul scrapper that I really liked on Virtue named "Shinobu Dragonheart"... a name I also came to dislike.
When Exalted opened up I was able to snag the name Shinobu. Later I was able to transfer my scrapper to Exalted, first creating a Shinobu Dragonheart there, then deleting the placeholder Shinobu toon, then renaming my scrapper Shinobu. So I have a 50 on Exalted when I want to play there and I have a character with my global as a name again after years without. I was quite happy about that. ^_^
(And I was eventually able to rename the fire/kin to something else... still on Virtue, now goes by the name Prisstina which is much better, and now all the way up to 46. I swear, I'm the oldest sub-50 fire/kin in the game... toon was originally made about June 2004.)
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I've done this many times just to change the name back when they were handing out lots of free transfers.
If I transfer a character (with the name Dust Raven) from one server to another where I already have a character with the same name (Dust Raven), what happens? Do I get to rename the character for free as I would if it was someone else who had that name, or something else?