Busiest Time of the Year - R3n4m3M4g3dd0N!!

[Troo]

Some have guessed this will be the single busiest day of the year.

 

November 1st, 2024 at 9:30 PM Eastern Time - Hence known as R3n4m3M4g3dd0N (re-name-mageddon)

 

Similar to Armageddon, the prophesied location of a gathering of armies for a battle during the end times.

 

 

As we prepare for renamaggedon. Please confirm a few things:

• 'Rename' will not trigger a name release. Must be a NEW character!
  • only 'new' characters trigger the name release.
• Temporal Warriors will never have 'safe names'. Treated as level ones. 30 day limit (that's some excellent new pvp)
• If a character is renamed and they were a member of a supergroup, they will need to be re-invited. <--this is not troo
  • no loss of their description, battle cry, clearing email/friends lists/sg, etc
• Any other nuance folks should be aware of?

 

 

Name Release

• Characters will be flagged as ‘inactive’ when the following time thresholds are met:
  • Level 1-5 characters will be flagged as inactive if they have not been played in the last 30 days
  • Level 6-49 characters will be flagged as inactive if they have not been played in the last 365 days
  • Level 50 characters will never be flagged as inactive (with the exception of Temporal Warriors)
• When a character is flagged as inactive they are not immediately renamed. Instead, their name is simply no longer locked. This allows another player to create a character with that name, at which point the original character will be renamed.
• This flag will be visible on the character select screen. You can remove the inactive flag from a character at any time simply by logging them in.

 

 

Please feel free to chime in and confirm or clarify.

@Number Six@Widower@GM Crumpet@GM_GooglyMoogly@GM Bot

 

Thanks Homecoming team and coding contributors.

 

Edited October 30 by Troo

[PyroBeetle]

I echo the busiest time if the year, I have been taking about an hour every play session to bring another handful of Level 1 toons up to Level 6...all if the names have concepts attached to them and I would be loathe to lose them for when I do get back around to those concepts.

[Acroyear]

What good is the name release if you have to create a new character to get the released name? 

[Greycat]

Are you *asking* for those to be confirmed? Asking for information?

 

1. Yes. True. You can only get a "freed" name by making a new character.  You can, however, immediately delete that character (as the name is held for a few minutes) and rename an existing one.

 

2. True.

 

3. What you're describing, for clarity if anyone's wondering, is the effect of the manually-run-on-live script, which had all of those side effects (removing from SG, losing email, friends list, etc.) because it archived the character. The new process is essentially an "always on" monitor of the database. The character's not archived, so none of this needs to be broken.

 

As far as other things to be aware of?

 

If "your name" is taken, you'll end up with a number appended to (or if the name's at full length, replacing the last character of) your name. So Superdudeguy will be Superdudeguy 1. Ihaveareallylongnamemanman (if that were the at the limit) would be ihaveareallylongnamemanma1.

 

I'd have to look at what I asked in the announcement thread for any other nuances.

[Greycat]

1 minute ago, Acroyear said:

What good is the name release if you have to create a new character to get the released name? 

 

... the name is now available and you can get it, where you couldn't before?

 

You have 1000 slots per server, surely if you REALLY want the name, you can create a new character for five seconds. Then delete them and rename the existing character.

 

Rather silly question.

[Greycat]

7 minutes ago, PyroBeetle said:

I echo the busiest time if the year, I have been taking about an hour every play session to bring another handful of Level 1 toons up to Level 6...all if the names have concepts attached to them and I would be loathe to lose them for when I do get back around to those concepts.

 

If you have *that* many level 1s - and I say this as an RPer with several low level characters who do serve various purposes - that it's an actual *issue,* perhaps you should look into if you actually are planning to *play* them at any point. Perhaps trim them down to just a few you *really* want to play. Otherwise you're just hoarding.

 

(And no, I highly doubt anyone's going to want the names I have on those lowbies - I have no idea why someone would want to copy a base code or designation, and highly doubt someone would *have* to have a person-name-and/or-nickname combination type name I have on the others.)

[Troo]

Thanks @Greycat just want folks to be aware 'rename' won't trigger 'name release'. Need to do the two-step.

 

If there are any other wrinkles please feel free to share them.

[PhotriusPyrelus]

Bummer for people who like to freeze characters at <50, but I guess a year is kind of a long time.

[PyroBeetle]

33 minutes ago, Greycat said:

 

If you have *that* many level 1s - and I say this as an RPer with several low level characters who do serve various purposes - that it's an actual *issue,* perhaps you should look into if you actually are planning to *play* them at any point. Perhaps trim them down to just a few you *really* want to play. Otherwise you're just hoarding.

It's only about 3 pages and about 15 minutes to get a character to L6. I don't see it as an issue so much as I don't have as much time to play as I did in 2019, and I do get around to the characters, eventually. I also doubt anybody would want most of the names, but you never know. Call it hording if you wish, but they are concepts and names I came up with and I will eventually get around to them, if the server still exists.

 

Also some of them were names and concepts I had accumulated on live so some of them go back 20 years not 5, and those I may get to, but are absolutely a sentimental horde.

Edited October 29 by PyroBeetle
Added further explanation

[Glacier Peak]

These questions are already all answered in the thread the Homecoming Team made in the Announcements sub forum.

 

 

[Acroyear]

1 hour ago, Greycat said:

 

... the name is now available and you can get it, where you couldn't before?

 

You have 1000 slots per server, surely if you REALLY want the name, you can create a new character for five seconds. Then delete them and rename the existing character.

 

Rather silly question.

 

I honestly did not know that. But thank you for the information.

Also, there is no such thing as a silly question. 

[Greycat]

4 hours ago, Acroyear said:

Also, there is no such thing as a silly question. 

 

... I've worked in tech support and/or customer support for most of the last 30 years, I can say that's *patently* not true. 😄

[cranebump]

50 minutes ago, Greycat said:

 

... I've worked in tech support and/or customer support for most of the last 30 years, I can say that's *patently* not true. 😄

So this retractable thing is a CD reader, and NOT a cup holder?:-)

[biostem]

Meh - I've gotten into the habit of choosing rather obscure names.  Still, if it allows active players to nab some names that they really wanted, I think the window before names becoming unlocked is pretty generous...

[Ukase]

8 hours ago, Troo said:

'Rename' will not trigger a name release. Must be a NEW character!

I did not know this, so thanks for the heads up! 

[OEM61]

13 hours ago, Acroyear said:

What good is the name release if you have to create a new character to get the released name? 

Easy enough to make a new toon (reserving the name), then when you are ready you can just delete the new toon and rename the existing character that you wanted to have the name.

Edit:  Guess I could have read the other replies before chiming in, but oh well.


Oh, and one more thing.  "Obscure" is probably not quite as obscure as you may think.  "F4N74571C M4N" might not have a line of people waiting for the name, but a lot of people that have read comics and/or played comic-inspired games have probably thought of a lot of names for a lot of heroes and villains of their own making over the years, not to mention so many indy comics and lesser-known major-label chaarcters that may be out there.

Edited October 30 by OEM61

[Digirium]

"Why isn't the name I wanted available now??? Reee".

 

Meanwhile... a portion of the 1.6M have been silently logging in while muttering to themselves "Oh no, no you will not. Denied!".

[Snarky]

Yes indeed.  A rare chance to create characters with the names we wanted.  Character names that were camped by people who never used them.  And the vast majority will not be used by the people that camp them Nov 1.  
 

good times.  

[MoonSheep]

i don’t have an opinion either way, i’m just here to enjoy the incoming arguments 

[Mopery]

I'm sure the 50 players who all want the exact same edgy name will still be disappointed when only one of them can have it.

[High_Beam]

Come on Princess Sparklepants!

[Seed22]

20 hours ago, Greycat said:

If you have *that* many level 1s - and I say this as an RPer with several low level characters who do serve various purposes - that it's an actual *issue,* perhaps you should look into if you actually are planning to *play* them at any point. Perhaps trim them down to just a few you *really* want to play. Otherwise you're just hoarding.

But what makes them having a bunch of lvl 1’s for their desired purpose hoarding and you standing around for hours RPing not hoarding? You’re both effectively playing your way and neither are “playing” the game by the metric of gaining levels and whatnot. 
 

So technically both are hoarding. Or, as I like to see it, both are playing the way they see fit. I personally have a lot of 50’s. To some even that still is hoarding. 
 

I say as long as you’re logging in, you’re good in my books. And the HC team too according to the release policy

[Snarky]

3 hours ago, Mopery said:

I'm sure the 50 players who all want the exact same edgy name will still be disappointed when only one of them can have it.

Edgelord will be mine!

[Troo]

25 minutes ago, Snarky said:

Edgelord will be mine!

 

Public Service Announcement: Folks might not want to internet search 'edgelord' or 'edging' without appropriate filters.

 

Oh Snarky.. 😛

 

"This is Your Life! And It's Ending One Minute At A Time!"

"Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else."

"This is your life, good to the last drop."

"Doesn't get any better than this."

 

Edited October 30 by Troo

[Icono04]

2 hours ago, High_Beam said:

Come on Princess Sparklepants!

Surely you meant to have a comma between the second and third words, right? Many English classrooms have posters with "Let's eat, Grandma" and "Let's eat Grandma" to emphasise the difference grammar can make 🙂