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Name Reservation

    • 264 posts
    August 18, 2024 4:18 PM PDT
    Hi



    I see the announcement on Discord about people who have reserved names. Where is this done, as I can't see any option on my account for either the game or forums to reserve a name?



    Thanks
    • 242 posts
    August 18, 2024 6:37 PM PDT

    Artois, on Discord, stated “name reservation is not happening yet. We dont have more information at this time to share”

    There have been people that are creating a character with a person’s discord name and just sitting on it so they can’t use it.

    To this, Artois, on Discord, stated “people who do that will be suspended. continued actions like that will get you banned from testing”

    • 264 posts
    August 18, 2024 7:59 PM PDT

    Thanks for that info.

    I just read the post so wasn't sure about how it was related to reservations. I read Sav's post. I thought they would have reserved their own staff's character names. But guess that isn't in place yet.

    • 580 posts
    August 19, 2024 3:43 PM PDT

    I wondered the same thing.  If they weren't reserving names yet, then why was Artois talking about banning people for squatting on names.  But I figured out it was because people wanted to play those names during the seasons.  I'm a bit thick sometimes.

    • 43 posts
    September 15, 2024 9:46 AM PDT

    The thing with name reservation is that there will be character wipes, so I wonder if I can keep my character name through one or more character wipes

    • 2644 posts
    September 15, 2024 4:28 PM PDT

    @Eliadann

    No player names have been reserved as of yet. However, many longtime PA members have used their Forum/Discord name for their ingame character for a long time and are known ingame by those names. After a recent wipe, a number of those players found that 'their' name was not available. After several of them had complained to VR, it was discovered that just a few players had made a bunch of alts immediately after the server came up from the wipe and used the names of those longtime PA players' characters for the alts, thus keeping the originators of the names from using them. This was seen by VR as a form of intentional griefing. Those players were instructed to delete their alts and a general warning was posted against the behavior.

    During my time in PA, I haven't heard anyone complaining of others 'stealing' their name, though if someone liked to use a popular name like Merlin or Gandalf it would be hard to prove any claim to it even if one had used it previously.

     

    After the recent announcement of Guild functionality getting into the game a similar, pro-active warning was posted on Discord against individuals taking the name of an existing Guild without the consent of the Guild.