Alkanos
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Post by Alkanos on Jan 31, 2006 15:50:30 GMT -7
I'm guessing they're gonna go by character age, possibly by account age. Hopefully account age, since I've been playing since day 1. ;D
Ok, I can understand another character named Micah, that's a pretty common name. But why the heck is there someone else anywhere named Terwin??? I came up with that name myself, a while ago, and you'd be amazed how many times I've had to alter names cause it's taken... Heck, it's just the letters of my name changed around and made more fantasy-like (My Name => Derwan => Terwin). Luckily it's just a lvl 4 person, but why are they stealing my name?
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Post by Lady Shylah on Jan 31, 2006 17:17:36 GMT -7
Doh! I need to check for Shylah!
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Post by Saine on Jan 31, 2006 19:08:57 GMT -7
Wow there's a lot of contradicting info about how they are gonna do this. It wasn't account age though, it was character creation date. Some people are saying it's going by the date, others say those on highkeep are the ones that have to change. My names that are taken are all taken by characters lower than level 15, it would really suck to lose a name to an alt that's not even played Palen was lucky, none of his names were taken at all. I'm surprised Terwin is taken also, it's not one you'd expect a lot of people to think of. Someone out there thinks like you do, now there's a scary thought!
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Post by amoa on Feb 1, 2006 11:35:58 GMT -7
Someone ran a crawler using eq2census and got this hits for duplicates.
138 Guild Collisions
7610 Character Collisions. (20-60 lvl)
This is for all servers in the merge.
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Post by Lady Shylah on Feb 1, 2006 17:45:07 GMT -7
Geesh..
i checked on Shy, and i'm good to go there.. the others i'm not so concerned about... cripes, it's silly.
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Post by str8gamer on Feb 2, 2006 12:24:44 GMT -7
From a business perspective anytime you consolidate like this, its usually not because of high growth and profits are qetting squeezed, or perhaps they might get out of the business altogether. WoW on the otherhand has just opened up 5 new servers.
I think Sony has made alot of progress to stem the defections to Wow and perhaps the consolidation is a good thing to provide a high quality game to those servers that remain in hopes it overtake WoW in the future. If Wow finds a solution to its end-game progression. ie. its capped at lvl 60 and it gets boring real fast, Sony might have to start working on eq3 sooner than later.
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Post by Saine on Feb 5, 2006 12:48:51 GMT -7
This is the post from SoE about how they will decide on names:
When comparing two characters with the same name:
* If neither character has logged in within the past 60 days, the character that has more played time keeps the name. * If one character has logged in within the past 60 days and the other hasn't, the one that has been online most recently keeps the name. * If both characters have logged in within the past 60 days, the character that has more played time keeps the name.
When comparing two guilds with the same name:
* The guild that was created first keeps the name.
That is the model that was the strongest overall, even compared to models that tried to use combinations of creation dates, adventure levels, and tradeskill levels.
Further, once this is completed, for those who have had significant activity in the last 60 days, and still end up with their name changed in a case where there is an obvious mistake, those will be handled on a case-by-case basis. We will try to resolve them as equitably as possible by evaluating whether or not the wrong result occurred, and putting it right if need be.
If you are renamed automatically, please remember that you have options at your disposal. If you have not already moved your character via the Character Transfer Service, you can pack up your shared bank and use the service to move to a server of your choice during the period in which it remains no-charge, or you can choose the /rename option on your new server and choose a new name of your liking.
For those who view this as a minor inconvenience and do not mind using the /rename option (and we understand this will likely be a small number of people who feel this way), /rename-ing will also grant you a handful of Tradeskill or Adventure bonus XP% potions for your trouble.
Seems pretty fair...except I want the tradeskill potions too!! lol
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Alkanos
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Post by Alkanos on Feb 5, 2006 16:49:15 GMT -7
Blast, now I wish that I'd kept Micah's name just to get the potions! Ah well
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Post by Lady Shylah on Feb 5, 2006 21:52:55 GMT -7
I don't like it. So they are saying if there is a lvl 60 Shylah on the other server, that other person can take my name? Meh... Good thing there are no other Shylahs. I wonder how it will effect housing and such? I hope that person doesn't get access to my house or something silly like that. haha
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Post by Lady Shylah on Feb 15, 2006 9:02:03 GMT -7
I hear today is the day of the merger!
I also heard it was going to take the majority of the day to complete. Any news?
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Post by shakira on Feb 15, 2006 9:14:10 GMT -7
12 hours
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Post by zabia on Feb 15, 2006 11:21:52 GMT -7
I sure hope some level 60 who has played from day one doesnt have any of my character names.
It is 12 hours from when that the servers are down?
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Post by Lady Shylah on Feb 15, 2006 17:34:59 GMT -7
it's 5:35pm mountain time.. servers down.. any idea when they'll be up?
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Alkanos
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Post by Alkanos on Feb 15, 2006 18:16:57 GMT -7
Oh wow, that's today? Where does the time go? ;D
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Post by Tironin on Feb 16, 2006 8:04:28 GMT -7
I checked this morning. Ronin is still Ronin (yay!), but my new alt Melee is now Meleex.
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