Someone on Cormyr has my name... and it kinda sucks

[Drachmor]

My main's name was taken on Cormyr... just posting because, as minor as this is, it is honestly putting a damper in my enthusiasm (on both Cormyr and main server).

Originally, I wasn't too bothered, as I thought this would be VIP-only or a bit more temporary. Now, it seems Cormyr is transitioning to the premier experience, and I'm feeling kind of left out?

Wondering if anyone can relate!

(Also, wondering if anyone can think of a solution besides appending a number to the back of my name? but if it must be, it must be).

 

[Mornyngstar]

What was the name taken?

 

[Blunt Hackett]

I've always just added a little more to the name. So for example, if it were Drachmor, I'd try Drachmore, Draechmor, Drachmoor, etc., until one finally worked.

 

[Jhml]

I've thought about this. Naturally it's first come first served, and this does not apply with your case and the new Cormyr server, but if a name is on a character that has not been logged on for lets say two years, then it should be released when someone tries to name a new toon. If and when someone logs the old toon, then they should get a prompt to rename the character before being able to log on. Not sure if such a system would be possible, programming and this game specific wise.

 

[Lacci]

That´s a difficult topic. I know I would be quite annoyed too if "my" name was already taken, and I don´t think I would be happy with using variations of it...

I´m not sure about freeing up names after a certain time.
I took an almost 10 year break in DDO, I would have been mad if after my return my toons had to be renamed because someone "stole" my names.
Or I haven´t played World of Warcraft in at least 5 years, I don´t know if I´ll ever return, but if I do and I had to rename my characters, I might quit right away.

 

[ChickenMobile]

Think of it this way: you get a free name change if someone has taken it!
Severely doubt anyone has taken any of my character's names anyway.

OH NO, please don't name your character on Cormyr "Modridchi", I would be eternally sad. /s

 

[Fulchrum]

Yet another chance to advocate for using either both names as the unique identifier or slapping an @"account name" in the database on the end of all our character names, or even both!

 

[Bjond]

if a name is on a character that has not been logged on for lets say two years, then it should be released

No. BIG NO. There's no reason to ever come back to a game that destroys your character and the name is a HUGE part of that. After all, it's pretty much the only thing that survives a TR.

On the flip side of that, I don't much mind if my desired name isn't available when I first create a character. Some of the best names for my MMO characters came from being blocked on their initial choice.

It's basically a personal taste issue. I have 5x DDO characters. Some I use more often to lead raids than others. Loosing one of those would be more of a hassle because they're known. Oddly, "Bjond" is far more of a forum-name than game -- he was my first char here, but one of my least played.

Yet another chance to advocate for using either both names as the unique identifier or slapping an @"account name" in the database on the end of all our character names, or even both!

The "@" rather destroys any hope of immersion. FFXIV uses First+Last name for uniqueness. It works pretty well, in that everyone who knows you refers to you by first name and I very rarely see the same first name on different players. The names are too long, though. It completely kills typed tells via "/t soandso" -- it will all be via mouse clicking a name from your friend's list or chat.

 

[mikarddo]

If thats the worst to happen on a day - I would still consider it a pretty good day. So, its all about perspective.

I understand your pain - but I still suggest not taking it hard. Move on, have fun.

 

[Buddha5440]

I have 3 main names I tried to use on all servers. I had to alter some on a few servers when I started oh so many years ago (back in '09 I think).

I took the free to all Cormyr time to create 3 with those names and just parked them (quick created them stats/feats/skills are useless), I will just delete them and create them new immediately.

Sorry you missed the opportunity.

I just wish they would make Surnames part of the equation. James Smith was already created so James O'Brian is not acceptable kinda SUCKS.

 

[Jhml]

No. BIG NO. There's no reason to ever come back to a game that destroys your character and the name is a HUGE part of that. After all, it's pretty much the only thing that survives a TR.

What prompted my thoughts was I mostly use finnish names for my toons in order to get the names that I want and or to get over the particular 'name has already been taken' -block during toon creation. On a server with a few thousand players even those seem to be mostly taken. I suspect most are abandonware. Online games shouldn't be museums for non-paying customers. If I stopped playing for a decade, I'd be ok with my names being taken by an active, paying and playing dude or dudette as long as the rest of the toon remains untouched. WoW Classic emptied their servers and destroyed toons slash guilds during my break of a year or so. That among other things prompted me to quit WoW, so naturally I have my limits on this non-museum thingie as well.

 

[Smokewolf]

I'd hope that the toons on the primary servers will take presidance over the Cormyr ones. Otherwise we will see a fair number of accounts being breached or unplayable.

 

[mikarddo]

I'd hope that the toons on the primary servers will take presidance over the Cormyr ones. Otherwise we will see a fair number of accounts being breached or unplayable.

I dont get your point. Why should characters from the other servers win over characters on Cormyr if moving to Cormyr? That makes no sense at all. Mind, I dont have any characters on Cormyr

Further, why would an account be breached or unplayable due to a need to chance a name of a character? That seems to be blowing things way out of proportion to me.

 

[Anurakh]

I'd hope that the toons on the primary servers will take presidance over the Cormyr ones. Otherwise we will see a fair number of accounts being breached or unplayable.

I highly doubt that toons on other servers will take precedence over those already created on Cormyr. It would be disrespectful to the people who have made Cormyr their new home.

But none of you have to play on Cormyr. Move to a different server when transfers are available; Cormyr won't be the only 64-bit American server. Choose a different one.

 

[Anurakh]

They could get around this by first transfering existing (ideally with recent activity) toons to the new server and only then open the server for new character creation. I'm hoping they'll do this but not holding my breath.

As far as we know, that's not going to be the case. Transfers will be free to the server of the player's choice (or servers, if you want to send your toons to multiple servers, which we'll likely do with our toons on secondary servers).

The thing is, they don't have to move to Cormyr. There will be other servers. They can move to them. Cormyr has been around for months, and many of its players are veterans too, and they have the same rights as those of us who haven't moved to Cormyr.. Pretending devs're going to modify existing characters there is naive to say the least. Plan to move to another server. Not everyone can move to Cormyr, or they'll end up with lag worse than Orien (which happened in LOTRO recently with an overcrowded server - I sincerely hope SSG has learned from this and puts some measures in place to prevent it).

 

[Anurakh]

This is the point where a Dev chime-in and tell the "kids" that they can't just take anothers things. Cause, I don't know, maybe that would set a HUGELY negative trend that would cause the majority of DDO veterans to outright quit the game.

I'll be the first to refuse to transfer if they don't transfer astral shards, mounts, banks, etc. But this is different. Cormyr is a server that's been running for months. They can't just delete stuff from there to please you.

Why the obsession with Cormyr? There must be at least two more servers identical to Cormyr. Pick one of those. It's not that hard. Cormyr isn't special in any way.

 

[Anurakh]

I'm sure that your going to FAFO anyways. Then later deal with the reprocussions of having to select a new name after the original owner contacts customer service.

I guess it's true.... You can't save a stupid person from themselves. Instead they have to find out the hard way. While making life difficult for everyone else in the process.

LOL. Take a linden tea and calm down. There will be other servers to transfer to; Cormyr isn't the only one, and you'll see when you calm down.

That doesn't mean you'll be guaranteed all your names, though. If they do it like in LOTRO, they'll open the servers a few days before the transfers, and we'll only be able to create three characters to reserve names. So if you have a lot of characters, or someone creates a toon with your name before you, you're lost.

I predict there will be people who will lose their names if they follow the same procedure as in LOTRO. That doesn't make me happy either, believe me, but it's a different matter than Cormyr. Cormyr is a server that's been around for months. Accept that they're not going to (and that it wouldn't be fair) steal people from there, just as you wouldn't like it if they did it to you now on your current server.

 

[Smokewolf]

I'll be the first to refuse to transfer if they don't transfer astral shards, mounts, banks, etc. But this is different. Cormyr is a server that's been running for months. They can't just delete stuff from there to please you.

Why the obsession with Cormyr? There must be at least two more servers identical to Cormyr. Pick one of those. It's not that hard. Cormyr isn't special in any way.

Toon names are unique, ever across servers. To have multiple servers with the same name creates a whole laundry list of problems. Never mind the fact that there are those that stream on YT or are Guild leaders that use that name outside of DDO for various purposes. You being a kid or a troll (Haven't decided which yet), its understandable that this is beyond your scope of reasoning. Oh yeah... here's an idea, go ask your parents if they'd think it was "ok" that a 3rd partly was abusing their good-name.

 

[Smokewolf]

LOL. Take a linden tea and calm down. There will be other servers to transfer to; Cormyr isn't the only one, and you'll see when you calm down.

That doesn't mean you'll be guaranteed all your names, though. If they do it like in LOTRO, they'll open the servers a few days before the transfers, and we'll only be able to create three characters to reserve names. So if you have a lot of characters, or someone creates a toon with your name before you, you're lost.

I predict there will be people who will lose their names if they follow the same procedure as in LOTRO. That doesn't make me happy either, believe me, but it's a different matter than Cormyr. Cormyr is a server that's been around for months. Accept that they're not going to (and that it wouldn't be fair) steal people from there, just as you wouldn't like it if they did it to you now on your current server.

Ahh No!

Identity theft is no trivial matter for those experiencing it.

 

[J1NG]

@Smokewolf

You might need to take a breather for a moment, as a character name is unique on "each" server. It's not one unique name across all servers. Only our account names are unique and spans the game; so there's only one J1NG for example. And every "yijing" on every game server is mine (as I reserved by creating a character there or have an active character on that server), but I did need to go to every server and create it.

J1NG