I found that "Immortal Emily" has been saved in GW1 by someone. Kinda glad I didn't manage to get my blog url as Agile Emily now.
Also, the name thing won't allow the word "Sexy" in it. Found that out last stress test.
I found that "Immortal Emily" has been saved in GW1 by someone. Kinda glad I didn't manage to get my blog url as Agile Emily now.
Also, the name thing won't allow the word "Sexy" in it. Found that out last stress test.
If you're the sort of player who wants a specific name but also wants to play around a bit with the character creator, then when you first launch the game, just rush to the end of the character creator, put in the name, enter the game, and quit back out to the character selection screen. You can then delete the character you created and start creating a new one slowly by exploring all the character creation options. Names of deleted characters are stored for a certain number of days before being freely available again, so this is a safe way to ensure that by the time you finish fiddling with the character creator, the name will be available.
Of course this doesn't help you if the name you want has already been taken by the time you first log in, but hey at least it's something.
I'm pretty sick of my name being taken everywhere all the time (even though it's usually a short word, so naturally pretty popular). At least guild wars 2 allows special characters. Still I hate whole one name per game idea and it would be nice for them to forcefully rename characters that haven't been played for, say, 3 months. I don't remember actually meeting someone who stole my name in game, in fact on some servers in WoW it was often some low lvl alt that haven't been used so long, it's not even in armory anymore.
Yesterday I actually had an interesting episode regarding my name. Just as I had logged onto the stress test, I got invited to a party. It must have been a mistake because I quickly noticed that someone in the party was called "Schalla" or something.
I've got a nemesis now.
Sometimes I get told that the names I pick mean something in another language. My shaman's name in WoW, for example, apparently meant "rebirth" in Greek. But I don't go out of my way to get names meaning something.
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24 hours.
/10asura
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That'd be annoying for anyone who takes a break for 3+ months, which is perfectly viable. You come home from a vacation, your friend nags you to see the awesome new clothes she's gotten in GW2, you log in... and your character is now named Placeholder2713. Not only is the name you got acquainted with your character with entirely gone, you might not even be able to get it back.
Faolan Symbio - Sylvari Necromancer
Grosh Steel - Charr Engineer
Lazarus Kane - Human Guardian
Bibi - Asura Thief
none taken so far, and don't you dare take em
I like names, really do ^^
Sentinel PVE Basics for the two Specs that matterOriginally Posted by SW:TOR
Thank you.
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To clarify, I did not mean that vacation was the only thing that kept you from playing. Maybe, say, you've just become a parent and had little to no time to play for two months. Then you have a one month vacation. That's three months. Or maybe you've just moved to the middle of nowhere and it takes two months to get a cable for internet drawn to your new home, then you come home from a one month vacation. That's three months.
I like only having one name.
I'm torn between a one word name or a two word name though. To my delight, last stress test I discovered my name wasn't chosen (even on WoW there are only 6-7 toons with my name anyway (three are mine <.< >.>).... but I kinda want a last name too. Decisions Decisions ;(
God I hope the naming conventions prohibit stupid names...
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...Cyphren/simple - Cyphren - Dr00dtank / Treeheals
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...Cyphrin/simple - Cyphren - Bear Druid / Cat Druid
Now the up to 3 hours early start for some servers makes in kind of unfair for people who play on servers that will come online later than that.
I always thought Kooka was unique but it was taken in the beta weekends :/