So, How Many Names Did You Lose?

I will save this post and remind you couple months later when servers will be shut down. Will see what you have to say then.

I am going to laugh when they open the super servers and they decide to use transfers to move to them. Then it will be a 100% first come first serve for everyone and it will be 100% fair. And yes, I lost 4 names (2 origin servers), but hey, I can play with people so I'm completely happy. Plus as a healer, losing my name isn't a completely negative thing, those silly dps have to find me again in pvp.

Just transferred. I lost 1 out of 7 names. Not bad... hec, pretty freaking great actually. I'm starting to wonder though... Maybe my names are pretty unusual... Hmm... *insecurity creeps in* Lol!

None, I reserved mine

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Took away discription of inspiration

Seems like irony but i would not worry perhaps you draw inspiration from something few have great knowlage about i do it
That dosent equal bad name

I still get the feeling that his mommy took away his internet privileges.

was so glad to see nightmare lands become a destination server i lost none of them nick and brian are safe

I'll admit I haven't read this whole thread, I just check in now and again.

I've just been wondering what the odds are of someone's name being taken. If you figure that SWTOR has roughly 1.2 million subscribers for (I think) 120 servers now, that's roughly 10,000 users per server. Sure, most users have more than one toon, so I'm sure that could be off by a factor of 8. But let's say people are most concerned about their "main".

How many possible names are there? This is the hard part. Even just using normal human names, most baby name books have 25,000-100,000 names. However, there's a whole realm (pun intended) of fantasy & sci-fi sounding names. Then, you figure that many players (myself included) basically make a name up at random, and the pool of possible names is almost infinitely large. How many millions I don't know, but it's at least millions.

So, you'd think that the odds that one's name is taken among the 10,000-80,000 toons on a destination server is rather small. And yet there are many threads on here about not just one but multiple, or even ALL names being taken!

I'm not sure what your point is.

I guessed right and reserved what I could on both Harbinger and Drooga's in advance last week when I predicted my server would go there. Now that Vornskr has finally been announced as going to the Harbinger I will be losing my secondary character's name - Despereaux. I really shouldn't be surprised - it's not like I made it up. I took it from a Psych character and long before that it was a well known book character.

If I'd gone to Drooga's I'd have only lost the name of a character that hasn't even started Coruscant yet, but my wife would have lost all 3 of her higher-level character names.

Such is life, and it will go on.