2015-10-15, 05:03 PM
SaptaZapta Wrote: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).
They got around that by giving the inactive characters names of the form #1234567890. Including the '#' sign. Since that's not legal for anyone to type in at the character creation screen, all those names were guaranteed unused. Nice.
However, because it's an illegal character for an IGN, it can pose problems. For example, if you try to Whisper someone with such a name, you get the error "Incorrect ID".