Character Name Change Event Starts This Week!

oh no, possible doomsday

though i logged into all my accounts at the recent hot days, I am still a little bit worried that they would reset some of the names due to their general accident prone nature.

I know, right?
I fully expect any number of characters to have their names reset who were not inactive.
Also, since there already are some fully-numeric IGNs in use, I fear duplicates. I think the reason they decided to go with numbers rather than the same system they used for renaming guilds at the server alliances, is that with numbers they can just rename characters sequentially and not bother to check whether each name is already used (which takes considerable processing time, if you multiply it by the millions of characters that need renaming).

Apropos millions of characters being renamed, I think it would be quite interesting if someone with a rankings-scanner counted how many "active" characters remain in the game. After they bring the rankings page back, that is. It's currently down for some reason.

also have to decide on new names

I'm mostly content with my character names.
I have a few that I had to use alternate spelling on (L for i, 0 for o, etc), and I will try to change them to the proper spelling. But if someone beats me to it, no biggie.