Perhaps blues name database should be carried over to green?

[Jotei]

Originally Posted by Bardp1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Name trolling in game is already VERY prevalent

I find this deeply concerning.

[DMN]

If they can't link the databases, perhaps they can just download all the names currently on blue and upload it on green. It won't be future-proof but I think it will help immensely and it's far better than nothing at all. This way also won't have the benefit of keeping the names unique if the servers ever merge.

[HedleyKow]

The other thing I was wondering about is character slots. What happens when the servers merge if you have more than 8 combined characters on blue/green?

[DMN]

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

The other thing I was wondering about is character slots. What happens when the servers merge if you have more than 8 combined characters on blue/green?

My guess is , first, you'd have to delete all the green characters you don't want and then make sure you have enough slots on blue for the imported characters.

[fadetree]

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

Red and Blue don't seem to share their databases. Most likely Green won't share its database with anything else, either.

I'm not even sure sharing databases or even just tables between servers is even that practical. EQEmu uses MySQL and there must be some amount of locking going on, most likely not meant to be shared between servers at all.

You can't share a single EQ db between servers. It's all one thing, and the names are part of the table structures, so you can't share just the name tables. Shared DB's are certainly a thing in the world, but not by EQ.

[loramin]

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

You can't share an EQ db between servers. It's all one thing, and the names are part of the table structures.

It's not "all one thing". By default yes EQ Emulator runs on the same machine as the database. However, you can absolutely configure a separate DB server:

<database>
<host>localhost</host>
<port>3306</port>
<username>un</username>
<password>pw</password>
<db>peq</db>
</database>

Now of course the EQ Emulator software undoubtedly isn't designed to check a separate server out of the box, but again technically there is absolutely no reason why it can't: all it requires is a bit of custom code.

And again, writing custom code to check a database on another server isn't just "not hard" it's "standard operating procedure". The staff here has made massive custom changes to the default EQ Emulator software; I just can't imagine it would be very difficult for them to tweak the software so that the name checking parts use a different DB than the rest.

[Llandris]

Names should be first come, first serve

Edit - or maybe not [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Erati]

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

Names should be first come, first serve

ouch.

Well time for everyone to enjoy “college” style make overs.

[turbosilk]

No reason to rollover beta blue server names when there are people holding names on level 1s that haven't played in over 5 years if ever.

[Llandris]

Or maybe not...