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Saving a name

Cito2009Cito2009 Member Posts: 20
in Guild Wars 2
So if you make a generic guy and just skip to the end, make a name, log in and then delete him, is the name saved to your account for any length of time? Don't want to rush making my guy just to get a name i want..

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  • vicioussquidvicioussquid Member UncommonPosts: 9
    It's yours for 24 hours. This came from Arena Net via twitter.
  • GreenishBlueGreenishBlue Member Posts: 263
    great, glad I catched this thread, thanks a lot!

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  • xposeidonxposeidon Member Posts: 384
    Can anyone confirm this?

    Remember... all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more.

  • azmundaiazmundai Member UncommonPosts: 1,419

    why would you delete him?

    LFD tools are great for cramming people into content, but quality > quantity.
    I am, usually on the sandbox .. more "hardcore" side of things, but I also do just want to have fun. So lighten up already :)

  • marcustmarcust Member UncommonPosts: 495
    I assume so you can come back later, reroll the toon, customise its looks slowly and have the name you want.

    Playing: Darkfall New Dawn (and planning to play Fallout 76)
    Favourite games have included: UO, Lineage2, Darkfall, Lotro, Baldur's Gate, SSX, FF7 and yes the original Wizardry on an Apple IIe

  • Cito2009Cito2009 Member Posts: 20

    I would think you can't have 2 guys with the same name in the game or on one account.. So I believe you would need to delete him and make the guy you want saving the name.

     

  • vicioussquidvicioussquid Member UncommonPosts: 9

    I can't find the tweet from AN, but here is a link on Reddit that someone put together with recent questions

    http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/yrufy/prerelease_weekend_faq/

    Basically, create a character and skip to the end and name.

    Delete that character and the name is locked to you for 24 hours.

    Create a new character (the way you want no rush) and when you are done, name him the name you previously deleted.

  • azmundaiazmundai Member UncommonPosts: 1,419

    Originally posted by vicioussquid
    I can't find the tweet from AN, but here is a link on Reddit that someone put together with recent questionshttp://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/yrufy/prerelease_weekend_faq/Basically, create a character and skip to the end and name.Delete that character and the name is locked to you for 24 hours.Create a new character (the way you want no rush) and when you are done, name him the name you previously deleted.

    wow .. thats impressive .. that someone had the clarity of thought to bother implementing a system like that. kinda a waste of dev time in the grand scheme of things, but impressive at the same time :)

    LFD tools are great for cramming people into content, but quality > quantity.
    I am, usually on the sandbox .. more "hardcore" side of things, but I also do just want to have fun. So lighten up already :)

  • vicioussquidvicioussquid Member UncommonPosts: 9

    Here. I found the link to the tweet :)

     

    https://twitter.com/GuildWars2/status/238314352938201089

     

  • Cito2009Cito2009 Member Posts: 20
    This information puts a bump in my knickers...
  • marcustmarcust Member UncommonPosts: 495

    I would guess its not 24 hours but that once every 24 hours they run a batch job that removes the connection between a character name and the account name if the character has been deleted.

    Though maybe they run this batch hourly and record when the toon was deleted *shrugs*

     

    Playing: Darkfall New Dawn (and planning to play Fallout 76)
    Favourite games have included: UO, Lineage2, Darkfall, Lotro, Baldur's Gate, SSX, FF7 and yes the original Wizardry on an Apple IIe

  • voxnorvoxnor osMember Posts: 121
    Originally posted by marcust

    I would guess its not 24 hours but that once every 24 hours they run a batch job that removes the connection between a character name and the account name if the character has been deleted.

    Though maybe they run this batch hourly and record when the toon was deleted *shrugs*

     

     

    Heh I was thinking the same thing. It is probably just batched to run sometime overnight and dissassociate the connection. I guess that it could be implemented into an hourly job that checked the time since deletion too.

  • skeith138skeith138 Member Posts: 176
    so is the saving a name for everyone who pre-order/pre-purchase or just for pre-purchase?
  • Phaleg31Phaleg31 Member Posts: 32

    So help me, if anyone takes

     

    SEPHIROTH or LEGOLAS

     

    on my server, I'll put the voodoo on you!

  • GonzomikeGonzomike Member Posts: 30
    I think the names are taken are across the whole game,not just a server. Otherwise what if you wanted to change to a server that already had that name taken.

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