Holding names hostage.

[FenrirXIII]

This is my only complaint. People who have made level 1 characters just to get a certain name, then either hold onto it indefinitely (no reason to delete it) or they leave the game and that name gets indefinitely held up. If its something where they have leveled the character a significant amount, (say close to 20 or higher) then I can understand letting them keep that, or if they are active on the name, showing clear interest in making use of it, thats OK too. (IMO)

Mainly, because I would like my redmage's name of Gumdrop back, but in the 4 months I have been absent someone took the name before I was to restart my Red Mage. I haven't seen them online and no one knows who has the name, so I was wondering if there is a way you can check the level of the character 'Gumdrop' and if they have been active anytime recent. I'd like to be able to use it again if the current owner isn't, and has never leveled it to show even the slightest intent to use it. For future name requesting I think it'd be nice to set a standard in this instance so further name issues like this are easier to handle by precedent.


<<<<edit!>>> Now that I am thinking about it, I'm pretty sure I had Gumdrop on my key FenrirXIII and it was duoing with Dajiro, because if you check the pictures thread page 2 I am clearly partying with gumdrop and dajiro. Dajiro still exists but Gumdrop does not.. I don't really remember deleting it..maybe I did. but if I didn't..it'd be nice to know what happened to the name

[Rand]

Not sure, bud. Are you sure your keys all dont have it? Why'd you delete him to begin with?

[Sur Realis]

He wanted to remake the Redmage but never got around to remaking it after deleting it.

[Vahu]

This is why I recommend that when you recreate a character, you only delete it if you plan to immediately recreate that character right after you have deleted it.

That way, you won't have this type of problem.

[FenrirXIII]

How long did it take you to figure out that one vahu? Yeah, I know. I deleted him because I wasn't happy with the reallocation of stats I put into him, so I deleted him off of my Id_Slayer key.

I re-started him on either my FenrirXIII key, and made a bluemage on the Id_Slayer key to duo a redmage and a bluemage. Then around the Ice Caves I decided i -really- wanted that redmage to be able to play with my knight, so they couldn't be on the same key. I deleted gumdrop but never re-made it right away. That's about the time I took a break again. Sometime in the in between 4-6 months~ the name was created by someone else. This is the best I can come up with as far as the time line of events for it goes. My third key, Ezmarii, has no characters on it; and gumdrop is not on my other two keys. There is proof that I had restarted Gumdrop once and had it on fenrirxiii because if you take a look at the pictures section, page 2 has my thread 'Up in the sky?' or such; depicting the grygasz fight that Gumdrop and dajiro had fought together in. (although the pics are removed the original post is still untouched)

I don't have any negative feelings if they made the character and played it to a somewhat decent level, 'cause hey, we all take breaks now and then...no hard feelings there. But if they just made it and it's level 1, and hasn't been touched since, and the key/IP hasn't logged in since, it seems kind of a silly waste of space. That I would rather like to use. D:


By the way - I asked and Cons was very kind enough to change my current perma-redmage's name to 'Gumdrops'- a bitter sweet victory for now. The S at the end is so lame. lol but it works, and one can have hope that whoever has the Gumdrop name will eventually login again some day, and I can ask them to delete it if they aren't going to use it. ;3

[kyoshi123]

ya the same problem with me the Name Kyoshi is taken...... and i never used it >.< so i had to make char's like Master Kyoshi, Lord Kyoshi and so on

[Joker The Royale]

Same with the name Joker, i never see a char named Joker out there and i had to use Joker4, and the name phailed so i made chars with joker in them.