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That doesn't count. Vision is an android. Sure you can love your toaster but you can't be in love with your toaster, even if it does come with all the attachments.

I honestly hope that's the reason they aren't planning on running the name script. The players with active accounts on one server have just as much right to their names as the people with active accounts and the same names on the other servers. So I'd remove my objection to unique names if we got cross server teaming.

You claimed they would outraged and might cancel their subs if they came back and found their names were taken. Well in order to do that they would have to reactivate their accounts. People with active accounts can post on the forums. So if they were as pissed as you claim they would be then the first thing they would have done is post outraged threads on the forums demanding to know why their names were gone. It didn't happen. There was no outrage voiced by returning players after the last two times the script was run.

So it's quite obvious that it's not as big a deal to people as you want everyone to believe.

Isn't it obvious? So NCSoft can throw money away for no good reason instead of using it to improve CoH.

But they aren't giving all your stuff away. They are freeing up a name that isn't being used in case someone else might want to use it.

Yep.

You mean like I'm doing right now with the secondary accounts I can't afford? Yep. Noticed I lost a few names on those accounts when they were reactivated for a promotional weekend the last time they ran the script and still don't care.

While some do cancel their subs it's just amazing how many of them don't let their accounts expire so they can continue to earn vet rewards cuz it's only $15 bucks a month and there isn't anywhere to spend it in the desert. Edit: Some even let their kids play on the account while they are gone.

And yet we've never seen any of these people complaining, cuz if it were such a big deal there would have been some epically memorable posts from the last two times they ran the script and freed up names.

Their silence speaks volumes. It didn't happen then when they freed names on inactive accounts all the way up to level 35, it won't happen now.

Sure speaking French or German helps, but many Europeans speak more than one language, unlike the average American, so there is definitely more than 5 people on each of those servers that speak English.

(And let's be honest the average American on the internet doesn't have a very firm grasp on the English language from the way they write.)

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Cross Server Teaming is being developed!!!



And that's the only valid reason for allowing characters to have non-unique names.

The maintenance downtime complaints are more noticable and more frequent simply because more people are affected by the regularly scheduled server downtime than there are people that think all the "good names" have been taken.

I mean there's at least 100 people living in Australia that play CoH.

Somewhere besides AP? Is that near the AE Building? What else is there besides Atlas Park? What is this train you speak of? Is that in the AE building? I like to click on bombs.

A lot of people can't stand having them cluttering up their active contacts list. Kind of an OCD thing.

Now if they had their own tab (like detectives and inactive contacts have) and appeared their instead of the active list they'd probably never get mentioned.

Some people can't admit to themselves that the only "problem" with unique names lies between their keyboard and the chair they are sitting in and the devs can't fix that. The rest of us have no trouble coming up with new original names.

Ironik isn't talking about losing names while he account is active. he's talking about the times his account was inactive.

That being said, a company can't be expected to make decisions based on the possibility that unusual circumstances may happen to some of their customers.

The average player isn't going to be hospitalized for over a year on a regular basis.

The average player isn't going to be out of the country for over a year on a regular basis. (And I'm saying that as a Veteran who knows first hand about deployments. We aren't the majority of customers)

Besides it's just as likely that people who are working and get sent out of the country or are away from the game for extended periods of time will simply keep letting their monthly fees get paid on their CC so they keep earning Vet Rewards that way when they get back they get a lot of new goodies to play with.

Well if we are going to start recommending servers for the OP I'd suggest he try out Vigilance or Zukunft.

Dude you misspelled "annoying".

If it was my choice I'd lean towards 6 months and then run the script annually.

We didn't pick the 90 day limit, the devs did. And they did it without asking our opinion on it.

They are grasping at straws in a futile attempt to justify their argument that thinking of original names is hard, and we should ignore the fact that many times those typos, hyphens etc. was the players first choice.

You didn't ask for a server name. You asked a simple yes or no question.

You were given the correct answer which is yes.

In the future instead of starting off your thread by insulting everyone on a server,

you might think about phrasing your question so it actually gets an answer you are looking for.

Well it would work if the default setting is disabled instead of enabled.