Feels bad to lose the original name I've had since day 1
Title, after merging servers apparently I didn't log on fast enough and now my name "Dab" is "Dab#j"
Feels ugly man
Posted Jul 26, 2023, 9:52 AM UTC
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Not only did I get the hashtag treatment, they even censored my name lol
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It's even worse, tt's not about logging in fast, it's who had the character first created win. I lost my name to 3 lvl 10something :D
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If its first created makes a lot of sense .
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Yeah makes some kind of sense, but it feels bad when you lose your name to a character ditched after a few hours of playing just because they got in a few minutes earlier at the start.
There is no good-for-all method for this while keeping the names unique, so it is what it is.
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I feel like there should be a higher level cap for name priority . But if both are above the level threshold its whoever was first made . But well already done nothing we can do .
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I seriously doubt they are actually doing it this way. From what i’ve seen and experienced anyone who logs in first will be thrown the # and until everyone with that name logs in there are multiple people with the same name existing on the server and therefore impossible to change your name to abandoned accounts regardless of when you made your account.
If they really were doing it as they said, EVERY account would automatically be name#a leaving the true “original” alone, not assigning it when you logged in.
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I'm pretty sure that's they way they do it, at least based on my anecdotal experiences. So it seems they determine the "one true original" name holder beforehand, then everyone else get the #-s as your character data loads in. So you are right that they don't put # automatically, if I search for my character name in add friend I see the three with the exact name, no # after.
For example I saw in crew roster after I logged in that crewmates who didn't logged in yet already have the #, as their characters are loaded in for crew roster or something. I got #a, while my character on other merged server with the same name as mine not in any crew had the name without #(searched for it in "add friend"), but got added #b to the name when I logged in with it.
But those who had more unique names and created alts later and logged in to their main first didn't get # on their main one despite they logged on it while there are their others alts with the same name which not got # yet.
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For me I literally had alts I made on a different region and I logged into the “original” first and it got the #. the last one I logged into did not.
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Hmm then it's possible I got mislead by crewmates mistyping their names or gaslighting or something. (Also I think you meant server, not region.)
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I'm pretty sure the names were already with the # when the servers went live. The thing is, that with the friend search function, the characters you find are in the state they were in when last online on your server.
I experienced this before merge when I searched for someone who transferred server long time ago and I found a ghost of their character from before they transferred.
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Yeah i can give you a picture of it my account got #c while the inactive/dead accounts still have the name without the # + plus letter
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I got the "king" ign just at launch time i was at astro server and quit in couple days if someone else lost that ign lmk it might be me and i can just log in and change it
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There's workarounds to keep the same name using blank spaces. I just put a delta symbol at the end of mine
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Well it's can't be that original if there are 10 other people with the same name
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I sell the name of moonknight for 100€
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Ah my name already was changed to Lucoa#m, can't get worse than that..right? I don't have the will to spend 300 crystals in a rename, but I'll do what I must.
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Check your mail. Everybody that has " #[letter] " at the end of their name gets a free name change item from the mail.
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Oh! That's great! I shall check today once I get back home, thanks!
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Agreed, seeing someone at like lvl 1 have ur name makes it worse.
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I got lucky with every one of mine (save for two of them in the Europe region but they were both mine with the same name) but it's still weird to think about here
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My main account lost the name to my newer alt account lol. I ended up renaming both so my main could keep the original name
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it's all fun and games until the person that got "Kirito" lost their name.
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i got #e
the name changes were based on the earlier server open time. so if you started first but some newbie joined a server with earlier open time, the newbie kept your name and you have to rename
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I'm pretty sure the one that gets to keep the original name is the one that created it first, not the one that logged in first after the merge.
Your name after the merge was already set before the servers went live. Otherwise there would be be ppl with the same name that didn't login yet.
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Makes sense. I just remembered that my Dab name was actually my second character, after I created a new one a few days after release. Makes since I wouldn't be the original Dab after a few days
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I really lucked out that my name has a hyphen that could be changed to an en dash ("Rin-rin" → "Rin–rin"). The change is barely noticeable font-wise too.
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My nickname was literaly random letters and somehow there's someone with exact same name as me.
Wild world.
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Yeah, I lost my ign to someone who played for maybe the first week of the game before quitting. I'm a day 1 player as well.
Does this work?
https://www.reddit.com/r/TowerofFantasy/comments/15a2npj/name_is_taken_but_all_the_other_accounts_are/jtijsz3/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3
I found another solution before I saw this. I appreciate it though!
Any chance it might be "King" i remember taking that nickname couple secs after launch on astora server and just quit in a week
Nope. Although I did see a King complaining in wc about losing the name.