Help with how character names work, please

Can anyone help me with the mechanism of how character names work?

We know that characters (unfortunately) must have unique names. With that in mind, if we delete a character with a specific name, can we create another, right away, and give it the same name, or does the name get "locked-in" in a bank of sorts for a period of time?

Thanks!

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xxn1927#3319 wrote:

Can anyone help me with the mechanism of how character names work?

We know that characters (unfortunately) must have unique names. With that in mind, if we delete a character with a specific name, can we create another, right away, and give it the same name, or does the name get "locked-in" in a bank of sorts for a period of time?

Thanks!

As soon as it is deleted you can make another with the same name

Thanks! This is good news to me.

For PoE 1 they created a mechanism to swap character names. No reason why it shouldn't work for PoE 2 as well.

That is, if you want to be sure you get the name again. Always a tiny possibility someone just so happens to pick the name while you creating a new character.

So many character names have been taken that I started naming characters by mashing random keys, because literally no real name I can come up with won't be taken, I could sit there typing names in for 2hrs, and out of frustration start mashing random key sequences hoping one of them checks through. But it still took 5 minutes of mashing random key sequences to find a name.

Why doesn't GGG simply add a random name generator that'll generate something usable immediately?

I wonder how many people got filtered on character naming?

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Randall#0850 wrote:

As soon as it is deleted you can make another with the same name

Except someone else is faster and was able to snipe your name.

To prevent this, if you want to reuse a given name, you can name your new character whatever you want, then log into your account on the website, where you are able to swap out two char.-names (link, most below option).

WoW! 2000+ hours in PoE1 and I didn't know that such a feature existed. Thank you!

The naming system in PoE is pure bad. I was really bummed to hear they're going to be bringing it over to PoE 2.

D4 sucks, but at least you can name your character whatever you want. GGG needs to implement the account tag system and just let people have duplicate character names. Nothing destroys immersion in the game faster than having to name your character JuicyFarts_xxsdf01 before you even start playing.

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xxn1927#3319 wrote:

Can anyone help me with the mechanism of how character names work?

We know that characters (unfortunately) must have unique names. With that in mind, if we delete a character with a specific name, can we create another, right away, and give it the same name, or does the name get "locked-in" in a bank of sorts for a period of time?

Thanks!

This system makes absolutely zero sense. No clue why our names look like such a mess. Very frustrating indeed. Either way have fun with EA!

+1 for ending unique names...
+1 for spaces in names...

Most POE1 character names are so silly, with random letter at the end (including my own).

MMOs like WoW having unique-names per-server works because the server has a pretty small population.

This could be mitigated somewhat if they would allow at least 1-2 spaces, so a name could more naturally have a surname to be unique. This works well in EVE Online, whih is one large unique naming space.