When I choose a name for a new toon does that name get chosen or rejected based on other people’s names on that particular server or every server in eq? My guess is that it’s only server to server but not sure. Thank you.
Can only have so many repeat of the same letter. Can only have so many consonants in a row. There's names that aren't allowed so even if you are the first to login you won't get them. I forget if it was EQ or another game that a longstanding player had an issue because their long-used named was a new NPC in a new expac. Someone must of complained about their name... that used to happen a fair bit and not just for blatant inappropriate. Beware if you edged onto some of the more obscure aspects of it. At times, forced name changes seem to result in some unwieldy appropriate names being assigned. The guildie I am thinking about kind of deserved it though --but may also have been embellishing the story.
Back when classic launched, I had a friend that made a char named "Jesus" and ran around offering to baptize people for plat. It only took a few hours before the GM's changed his name. They named him iLLiLLi but with reversed caps, so in the EQ font it looked like IllIllI
Had a buddy get his name changed to Rtwo Dtwo by a GM on the day that GM quit. RIP GM Crazeco on Veeshan circa 1999
I had Softcutencuddly. GM took offence because it was a description, not a name. Sigh. The only overtly sexist name I ever used. It was a name from another game I played, a gladiatorial combat game. I kept loosing, my team was Softcutencuddly, all the gladiators were named things like Squishy and Gushy and Splattish.
I had a character named scrotum which I used as a mule. Luckily i didn't play on them long enough to get complaints i guess.
My son made a druid named Tilluen in 2000. I started playing a few months after him. I stumbled across Merchant Tilluen in Kelethin selling bags. At least back then the game wasn't rejecting names based solely on NPC names. Now if you tried to name yourself Nagafen you might get rejected... Also, there is (obviously) a list of names that are auto-reject.
It works by typing in a name, hitting enter world, then selling that name for as many krono as possible.
Well i had 11 names and multiple accounts banned for using Hooters, Pooters, Buffjobs, and Trannytrain. All these names i have used since early 2000's and no issue. Try to log into new servers i cannot use these names anymore. I think they update a list with unacceptable names on it, and then prevent new char's from using them on creation.
Time to try Tigole Bitties. I suppose every server had one but I LOL'd the first time I saw Tigole on Xegony.
