So, How Many Names Did You Lose?

None, my server has not yet been listed on the transfer list.

none when from Swiftsure to The Bastion and got to keep 8 names and my legacy

For some people it is. A name can be a very fundamental thing... if you think of your characters as characters, rather than extensions of yourself, then sudden name swaps can upset the entire basis you'd mentally constructed the character around. It's like getting halfway through the story & then suddenly having announced that Luke Skywalker will now be known as John Groundrunner. It'd be kinda jarring.

IMO it really depends whether you think about your character is an avatar of yourself or as a character in a story (who you happen to control). It's easier to mentally rename yourself - it's just a different nickname - than it is to mentally rename a third party character.

Based on how most players react to the idea of having opposite gender characters, I suspect the majority probably think of characters as avatars-of-themselves rather than characters-in-a-story tho.

I transferred five characters; none lost their names. I also kept my legacy name.

I'm surprised at the legacy one, since 'mockingbird' is kind of an obvious pick for a surname. The other ones aren't so surprising, though I'd have expected to lose at least one name. .-.

None, not even legacy.

My republic server was allowed to transfer today and by dumb luck I managed to get all 6 of my names. Thankfully I had toyed with the idea of re-rolling on what turned out to be my destination server. I decided against it but kept all my characters there since there wasn't much of a point in deleting them. My girlfriend managed to lose all 3 of her character names, but special characters got us around that.

My big concern now is that my imperial server is going to end up getting transferred to the same place as my republic server. Losing character names is crappy enough, losing characters is ridiculous.

This is not necessarily true. I'm not entirely sure if BioWare does this, but other MMOs would save the names of characters and put them in the random generator.

Haven't gotten my server up for transfers yet, but I checked the two possible servers my server may end up going to and none of my names were taken. Too bad since I wanted to change some of my names. So going to have to do that myself by creating characters first to force a name change.

Not to be a jerk or anything, but this certainly shows how creative (or lack there of) people can be. Those who are more creative kept their names over those that took more common names. Hamsolo, Bobbafeet, Dorthvador, etc of course are going to be taken. This also applies to legacy names. Skywaker, Fet, Organna, etc of course are going to be taken. And getting upset over losing a name is pretty childish. It's a name attached to some pixels. It's not like someone committed identity theft against you and stole your real name, birthday, social secuirity number, etc, then proceeded to destroy your life. If you really really really wanted to keep a name, you could've tested if it was taken by making a character on the destination server first. If it was taken, then you could've just not transferred and waited until transfers opened up and let you go anywhere. This may be a hint to people to try to be more creative in the future. And there are many baby name websites as well as name generators to help people who just can't be creative.

I was lucky and did not loose any name I transferred 7 characters to The Ebon Hawk. I left one level 50 because I wanted to delete it LOL
Now I don't have to /grin

I've lost four character names so far. Sadist, Goldeneye, Mauser, and Luxuria. I have not lost a legacy name.

Only one of those names I really regret losing is Mauser because I named the character after my deceased grandfather's favorite hunting rifle.