Name reservation problem

[Wingman]

I'm pretty sure I blew something up.

 

Shortly after Excelsior opened, I created my main character. I got to the step where I was clicking the button to go to Atlas Park when the client froze and lost conn to the db server.

I relogged on, the character isn't there. I went through the process again, but now the name I had used says 'not available' when I check at character creation.

So I made an alternate character. Got into the game and used /get_global_name to see what was up. get_global_name returns nothing when used on the original name. So no one has it.

When I go through the process to try and snag it again, it says unavailable. So the name is both not taken and not available.

 

Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

 

More information: I was able to change my Global name to @Wingman. So I'm pretty sure no one has a character named Wingman.

 

Yet more information: Now when I use /getglobalname Wingman the game returns the message: "Reactor Leak has the global handle: Crescent Moon" clearly something is wonky since neither one of those is the name I'm typing.

But when I use /getglobalname on Reactor Leak, it comes up empty. This definitely needs some admin attention.

[WanderingAries]

IIRC, @Global has nothing to do with Character names. Odds are the issue is simply everybody "dry-hugging" the server at once.

[Wingman]

IIRC, @Global has nothing to do with Character names. Odds are the issue is simply everybody "dry-hugging" the server at once.

 

Normally yes. But in this case, the name of the first character you create becomes your global ID on the server. So my global became the alternate. Later, I changed it to "Wingman." Which means that no one used that name as their first character. And since the server had been up for only minutes when I first started, I'm pretty the name got reserved when I made it, but then the crash stopped it from being recorded or committed or whatever and now it's in this weird limbo state where it isn't available and also isn't being used.