Lets say Blue and Green merge and we get Purple

[Rimitto]

Originally Posted by Jimjam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Maybe copy the crossserver tell system
Green.Jimjam
Blue.Jimjam

Maybe append a character forbidden by char creation
Jimjam1
Jimjam2

basically just the starcraft way of naming goes fairly easily... each account gets a 4-8 digit set of numbers so an infinite amount of jimjams can flood the server. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[cd288]

Originally Posted by JayDee [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

How would you even deal with the issue if duplicate names. Cannot just add a letter because people can and in many cases will deliberately take them. And the staff sure as hell isn't going to allow name changes for hundreds if not thousands of characters.

They already solved that upfront. You can only use a name on the other server if you make the character on that same account.

So for instance if you have your account name JayDeeP99Account and on Blue you have Jaydee as a char name, no one can go on Green and make Jaydee. The only way to make Jaydee on Green at that point is to log into JayDeeP99Account and make the char. Then when they merge they just add the X to the end of your Green char's name.

[cd288]

OP, to answer your question, when Green launched they stated that if you have more than 8 chars between the two servers on the same account, when they merged you'd only see the first 8 characters (I believe it's in alphabetical order). In order to access the additional characters, you'd have to delete some of the 8 characters that were shown on the character select screen. This was a limitation with the Titanium client IIRC.

Who knows if they'd be able to code a workaround in. Point being at the time of launch (and today still I believe) it's unknown if that would be possible so it's better to make sure you're not creating, say, more than 4 characters on Blue and more than 4 on Green on the same account.

[Swish]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

OP, to answer your question, when Green launched they stated that if you have more than 8 chars between the two servers on the same account, when they merged you'd only see the first 8 characters (I believe it's in alphabetical order). In order to access the additional characters, you'd have to delete some of the 8 characters that were shown on the character select screen. This was a limitation with the Titanium client IIRC.

Who knows if they'd be able to code a workaround in. Point being at the time of launch (and today still I believe) it's unknown if that would be possible so it's better to make sure you're not creating, say, more than 4 characters on Blue and more than 4 on Green on the same account.

Transferring characters to other accounts could get spicy.

[cd288]

Originally Posted by Swish [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Transferring characters to other accounts could get spicy.

Yeah I doubt they'd ever allow that

[Ripqozko]

There wont be a merge, hope that helped.

[Denosyn]

All they have to do is put A. or B. at the end of your Screen login name. Example Jungleboy99 as a login(fake) account name Becomes Jungleboy99g or Jungleboy99b depending on the character list you want to load. This allows a Full merger of all Characters Flawlessly with almost no work other then adding the Qualifier to the login script. Duplicate names I have Zero empathy The Oldest holder of a name by accounts creation day gets the name.

[Tethler]

Originally Posted by Denosyn [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

All they have to do is put A. or B. at the end of your Screen login name. Example Jungleboy99 as a login(fake) account name Becomes Jungleboy99g or Jungleboy99b depending on the character list you want to load. This allows a Full merger of all Characters Flawlessly with almost no work other then adding the Qualifier to the login script. Duplicate names I have Zero empathy The Oldest holder of a name by accounts creation day gets the name.

Pretty sure when they did server merges back in the day on live servers, they added an x to the end of duplicate names. So, yeah, that sounds about right.

[spoil]

I listened to some old Sirken interviews on youtube. Rogean, etc. were talking about server mergers in like 2013. I can't believe with that much preparation they fucked up in such an obvious way, if duplicate name/account character limit bullshit is indeed a major roadblock. I don't know anything and even I could have anticipated that problem.

[cd288]

Originally Posted by spoil [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I listened to some old Sirken interviews on youtube. Rogean, etc. were talking about server mergers in like 2013. I can't believe with that much preparation they fucked up in such an obvious way, if duplicate name/account character limit bullshit is indeed a major roadblock. I don't know anything and even I could have anticipated that problem.

You should really go back and read the launch announcements instead of flipping out. They very clearly explained that this isn't a problem that prevents merging and how it would work.