Name release

[Spaghetti Betty]

I did some cleaning out of my alts recently! I went from 175 to 120. Here are some names!

 

Wyrm Eater
Ten Years of Ashes
Silent Anarchy
Weeping Lotus
Lo Siento
Black Orchid Sky
That Which Gazes
Stratosphere Striker
Bloodthirsy Espada
Terrain Disruptor
Sanguine Dance
Candy Carousel
Mound Maker
Nightmare Python
Deceitful Effigy
Silver Crosses
I'm That Ninja
Fleeting Bitterness
Calamity Drive
Demolition Radio
Shirikodama Stealer

[Jawbreaker]

Released

Cinder Wind
Goof
Diesel Freeze
Djinnferno
Original Synth
Over 'fro
 

[Mjolnerd]

Released:

 

Freak Accident

Freak of Nature

Grey Gargoyle

Hoot Owl

Prime-8

Primeva

Proserpina

 

Edit:

Also released Last Gleaming, Scholar, and Zirconia.

 

 

Edited December 6, 2024 by Mjolnerd

[Mjolnerd]

Released:
Glamazon

Insomniac

Bonne Fire

Jump-Scare

Kineticutioner

Pit Hag

Undie Tectable

[Spankea]

eFlame has been released.

[Mjolnerd]

Released:

Amnesiac

Croupier

Endangered Species

Fangirl

Living Fossil

Pinocchio

[Hatchet_Manners]

Not sure if this is a bug or not, but I found that inactive names are not released for name-change but are released for new characters.

 

Today I transfered my family's characters from everlasting to excelsior and all my son's characters ended up with a "1" on his name even tho it showed available. 

 

I created a new char with the desired name. Then deleted that char and was able to rename the char to the desired name.

 

I think the devs made a mistake allowing 1k chars per server. That level of name-sitting is ridiculous. Should be like 20 or 30 max per server. At least they gave us this name-release to help with the issue they caused. 

[kelika2]

4 hours ago, Hatchet_Manners said:

I think the devs made a mistake allowing 1k chars per server. That level of name-sitting is ridiculous. Should be like 20 or 30 max per server. At least they gave us this name-release to help with the issue they caused. 

Then people would just make dozens of Accounts

And I think the sc0re team did that, not homecoming

[Echo Night]

I think the devs made a mistake allowing 1k chars per server. That level of name-sitting is ridiculous. Should be like 20 or 30 max per server. At least they gave us this name-release to help with the issue they caused. 

 

I wanna say I remember seeing that the reason for the 1K allowance was to foster creating more toons which in turn keeps you playing. Might also be the reason why respeccing is so terrible. The latter is jmo, though.

[Jawbreaker]

Released:

Bitter
Exstatica
Iconique
Mightmare
Phade
Rumskull
Shocks

Smiley
Thunder Mother
Total Girl
Twang
Whom
Whitecap

[Lightslinger]

Released:

 

Adversary

Magik

Metal

Sigilist

 

Edited January 15 by Lightslinger

[Techwright]

Released:

 

Syrensays

 

Col. Roughrider

[Jawbreaker]

Released 

Contrast

[Omegawatt]

On 12/17/2024 at 11:20 AM, Hatchet_Manners said:

Not sure if this is a bug or not, but I found that inactive names are not released for name-change but are released for new characters.

 

Today I transfered my family's characters from everlasting to excelsior and all my son's characters ended up with a "1" on his name even tho it showed available. 

 

I created a new char with the desired name. Then deleted that char and was able to rename the char to the desired name.

 

I think the devs made a mistake allowing 1k chars per server. That level of name-sitting is ridiculous. Should be like 20 or 30 max per server. At least they gave us this name-release to help with the issue they caused. 

 

I think you're running into what I ran into - when you check to see if a name is available, the system reserves that name to give you time to create the character.  I don't know how long the reserve period is, but I'm guessing it's 15-30 minutes.  It doesn't matter if you create the character or not, and it doesn't even matter if you log out of the game - the name remains reserved for whatever the time period is.

 

However, if, as you (and I) found, if you go through the process of creating a character with that name, and then delete the character, the name is freed-up immediately.  I don't think this is a bug, and as long as you know the work-around it's not all that inconvenient.

[MTeague]

Well, I did some housecleaning.  I've released a few names on Excelsior, available for anyone who wants to give them a good home. 

 

• Solarhawk
• Sagitarrius
• Trifid
• Hephaesto
• Red Havok
• Dog Mom
• Kodachrome
• Doctor Kelvin

Enjoy!

[Mjolnerd]

Released

• Defense Mechanism
• Ms. Mystery
• Outsider
• Element of Surprise
• Pixx

[Lightslinger]

4 minutes ago, Mjolnerd said:

Released

• Defense Mechanism
• Ms. Mystery
• Outsider
• Element of Surprise
• Pixx

 

Snagged Outsider, thanks!

[Mjolnerd]

Released

• Mayor
• Primate
• Trophy Wife
• Credible Threat
• Egyptologist

[Spankea]

Natural Powers is available.

[Lightslinger]

Released:

 

Heroic

Way

 

(had a cool villain idea for The Way, but it just didn't pan out, hopefully y'all will make better use of these awesome names)

[Jawbreaker]

Released: Wyrdsong

[Ultimo]

I feel it's a shame threads like this are necessary.  If they would implement a "Name@Handle" system, like many other games have, it would allow everyone to name their characters as they please.

[BurtHutt]

17 hours ago, Ultimo said:

I feel it's a shame threads like this are necessary.  If they would implement a "Name@Handle" system, like many other games have, it would allow everyone to name their characters as they please.

I'm torn on this one. In one way it would be nice but I also would hate to see a bunch of characters with the same name. I like the uniqueness of it all. So, I guess I'm saying I have to disagree with you....I think...lol

 

I still think giving a 1,000 character slots was a bad idea and HC refuses to rectify this. I guess the character name release program does help in a way but it's a bit of a pain for active users who have altitis. I've created some toons then put them on the shelf after a few levels. I now have to keep an eye out and log them in to preserve their names - what a pain.

[TheMoneyMaker]

8 hours ago, BurtHutt said:

I'm torn on this one. In one way it would be nice but I also would hate to see a bunch of characters with the same name. I like the uniqueness of it all. So, I guess I'm saying I have to disagree with you....I think...lol

 

I still think giving a 1,000 character slots was a bad idea and HC refuses to rectify this. I guess the character name release program does help in a way but it's a bit of a pain for active users who have altitis. I've created some toons then put them on the shelf after a few levels. I now have to keep an eye out and log them in to preserve their names - what a pain.

Fortunately, the difficulty in implementing the name + @global identification makes having your way more likely

[Mjolnerd]

On 5/6/2025 at 4:12 PM, Ultimo said:

I feel it's a shame threads like this are necessary.  If they would implement a "Name@Handle" system, like many other games have, it would allow everyone to name their characters as they please.

It's been asked for many, many times, and both the original developers at Cryptic/Paragon and the ones at HC have responded the same way (also many, many times): it's not realistic given the way COH specifically is set up. Technically it's not impossible, but it would require a lot more work than it seems like it should and would risk breaking a lot of other things too that rely on identifying a specific character or account (the auction house, for example).

 

Beaten@DeadHorse
 

9 hours ago, BurtHutt said:

I still think giving a 1,000 character slots was a bad idea and HC refuses to rectify this. I guess the character name release program does help in a way but it's a bit of a pain for active users who have altitis. I've created some toons then put them on the shelf after a few levels. I now have to keep an eye out and log them in to preserve their names - what a pain.

 

There's nothing to "rectify" -- accounts on HC are free. Since you, me, and everyone else can create as many accounts as we feel like with nothing more than an (also free) email address, we all have an effectively infinite number of character slots, whether there are 1000 of them on each account or 10. Reducing the number of slots per account wouldn't mean anyone had fewer slots, it would just mean some players would have a harder time remembering which of their fifteen logins has the level 25 fire blaster they're trying to alt to for that Citadel TF that's filling up fast. Plus that person would have fifteen different global names instead of one, so communication with them would be more difficult and confusing, too. Imagine trying to email inf between alts in that situation!