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”
@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.