Name Availability Conflict

[Rudra]

So I brought back a character from Live and found the name already taken. Not a problem, first come, first served. So I tried some variations to see if any of those were available. Settled on a variation as tolerable and pressed on. Later I decided to check other variations to see if there was a better one. One of the variations, that I thought I checked when I brought the character back, is listed as both available and unavailable by the game. Checking the name Syndra in the character creator shows as available, but if I try to rename the existing brought back character Syndra, the game says the name is already taken. Check the name for availability in the character creator again, and the game says the name is available. Try to rename my character to it again and the game says it is not available. Rebooting the game to clear name searches and trying it the other way nets the same results. Trying to change the character's name to Syndra has the game say the name is not available, and then creating a new character and checking the name has the game say it is available. Kind of makes naming characters a bit of a challenge when the game tells you conflicting information.

[AboveTheChemist]

That is the name release policy working as intended. You can claim an eligible name on a new character, but you can't rename an existing character to that same name. There is a workaround, though, which lemming posted here:

 

https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/60515-character-name-is-available-and-reserved-but-assigned-to-another-player/#findComment-751649

 

[Rudra]

35 minutes ago, AboveTheChemist said:

That is the name release policy working as intended. You can claim an eligible name on a new character, but you can't rename an existing character to that same name. There is a workaround, though, which lemming posted here:

 

https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/60515-character-name-is-available-and-reserved-but-assigned-to-another-player/#findComment-751649

 

Huh. That worked. Hopefully I'll remember that for next time. Anyway, that name is up for grabs now for anyone that wants it. (I tried what the linked post said, it worked, then changed the name back to the other variation I came up with that I wish I had thought of when I first brought the character back rather than retain Syndra. So that character no longer has the name I settled on but now has a name that is virtually identical to the original name back on Live, and it isn't Syndra. So apologies to whomever had a character with that name. The name is free again if you want to reclaim it. Or someone else can take it.)