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Character limit across all servers

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Lugors
03.24.2012 , 10:30 PM | #1
When did they impose this? I'm sure I am not the only one who locked out a name across all severs. Now I would need to delete 80+ characters to roll some legacy inspired toon. Might be fewer key strokes just to cancel the account.

Anyone else seeing this?

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Roccobb
03.24.2012 , 10:33 PM | #2
LOL, seriously? I can't imagine there are too many people who went on 80 servers to save a name. Wow. Just, wow.

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03.24.2012 , 10:54 PM | #3
You're threatening to quit because there's a character limit that sounds like it's higher than what WoW has? It's official: the trolls have run out of things to complain about...
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03.24.2012 , 10:58 PM | #4
Quote: Originally Posted by Lugors View Post
When did they impose this? I'm sure I am not the only one who locked out a name across all severs. Now I would need to delete 80+ characters to roll some legacy inspired toon. Might be fewer key strokes just to cancel the account.

Anyone else seeing this?
I really hope you're kidding. If not, I'd wager you probably are the first person to try to go to such obsessive lengths to reserve your name.

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03.24.2012 , 11:02 PM | #5
People like this is why the population count is so screwed up on the servers. BW looks and it shows there are say 5,000 Republic, and 6,000 Imperial on a server. But 3,000 of those Republic are accounts just used to save names. I saw one post where someone said they had 250+ characters across all the servers.
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Cormey
03.24.2012 , 11:20 PM | #6
Quote: Originally Posted by RickRedOne View Post
People like this is why the population count is so screwed up on the servers. BW looks and it shows there are say 5,000 Republic, and 6,000 Imperial on a server. But 3,000 of those Republic are accounts just used to save names. I saw one post where someone said they had 250+ characters across all the servers.
Yeah there was one a day back where TOR told them they had to delete 203 characters if they wanted to create a new one.

To the OP, you happily took the time to create all those toons you can happily take the time to delete them, at this point i'd think you can be certain of what servers you're just plain never going to touch.
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03.24.2012 , 11:22 PM | #7
Max character count is 50. I've confirmed this for myself.

It was patched in fairly recently, but I'm not sure exactly which patch.

I was at 54 characters two or three weeks ago and could still roll new characters at that time. I had to delete 5 characters in order to make any new ones this week.

If you think about it, this is a logical step for them to take prior to opening character transfers and smoothing out server populations. So really, you should see this as good news rather then bad IMO.
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Lugors
03.25.2012 , 07:54 AM | #8
I should have expected non constructive posts, but I was hoping for at least one to commiserate with. What bothers me about this is the sparse end game leaves few options to to actually be able to do anything, and the legacy push is all about making alternate characters. EA just threw a road block to doing anything with legacy for me, abit an entirely reasonable one.

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Sabredance
03.25.2012 , 07:57 AM | #9
Quote: Originally Posted by RickRedOne View Post
People like this is why the population count is so screwed up on the servers. BW looks and it shows there are say 5,000 Republic, and 6,000 Imperial on a server. But 3,000 of those Republic are accounts just used to save names. I saw one post where someone said they had 250+ characters across all the servers.
Yeah because BW doesn΄t have the tools to monitor and distinguish chars and active player ...

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Synphony
03.25.2012 , 08:02 AM | #10
Mind if i ask what name you are saving so profusely?
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