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by **Pariah** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 7:44 am

I just had a quick search for some character names i'd like to try and found that there were often two transformers with the same name. I then checked the names of my own cons and found that they had occasionally been duplicated too. I was under the impression the database did not allow this..... Am i a mental again?

Cheers

by **Subsonika** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 7:51 am

Can u post links :-?

by **Netminder** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 7:53 am

Hmmm if I recall and the honored elders of the forum will have to confirm this, if a team is inactive for an amount of time, the names can be used again.

News Credits: 1 · by **Windracer** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 7:59 am

Netminder wrote:Hmmm if I recall and the honored elders of the forum will have to confirm this, if a team is inactive for an amount of time, the names can be used again.

Yep. I can't remember the exact amount of time (three months?) but after a set period of inactivity the name frees itself up for use.

News Credits: 1 · by **Symbiote Spiderman14** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 7:59 am

inactive for 3 months names go up for grabs

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 8:10 am

And every three months one of these threads pop up.

News Credits: 6 · by **Dr. Caelus** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 10:16 am

Windracer wrote:
Netminder wrote:Hmmm if I recall and the honored elders of the forum will have to confirm this, if a team is inactive for an amount of time, the names can be used again.

Yep. I can't remember the exact amount of time (three months?) but after a set period of inactivity the name frees itself up for use.

Huh, I didn't know that.

That's nice.

What happens if the inactive player starts playing again?

News Credits: 1 · by **Redimus** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 10:33 am

Caelus wrote:
Windracer wrote:
Netminder wrote:Hmmm if I recall and the honored elders of the forum will have to confirm this, if a team is inactive for an amount of time, the names can be used again.

Yep. I can't remember the exact amount of time (three months?) but after a set period of inactivity the name frees itself up for use.

Huh, I didn't know that.

That's nice.

What happens if the inactive player starts playing again?

As they apear to have the name still, you'd imagin absolutly nothing.

Remeber, although the name is how WE identify a tf, the game's database uses the charecter's id number (ie this bit; character.php?character_id=47503, the number of my Astrotrain as it happens). This means that inm theory, absolutly everybody could have the same name, and this wouldnt cause a problem at all for the game. Confuse a few of the players mind.

(The forum's database works the same way, hence there being three High Commands at one point.)

by **awkwaRd** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 10:43 am

wasn't there also a time when everyone could put in any name and it would work? like some sort of glitch... i remember putting Bumblebee in one time, and tried a bunch of names i was sure were taken and they all worked. Then later on my brother told me that there was a glitch. Correct me if I'm wrong.

News Credits: 1 · by **Windracer** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 1:04 pm

awkward: I think I know what you're talking about. A person could put in multiple spaces before a name, and the game would allow it to be used because of the different characters (and the spaces wouldn't show up). It was rectified and any identical names automatically had a "1" "2" etc etc tacked on to the end. I remember because back in the day Aurora became Aurora1, much to my dismay... Thankfully the old Aurora went inactive and I got the name back. :grin:

Caelus wrote:What happens if the inactive player starts playing again?

Then you've got two characters with the same name playing. One I'm aware of on my team is Grazcon's Stormflash and my own Stormflash.

I can still update his bios and stuff, but if I tried to change his name and then wanted to change it back (or if I wanted to switch my characters around in my lineup), I'd lose it.

by **Tammuz** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 2:11 pm

actually he's right, just after we switched over to the new server, and got the performance summary thing the code glitched so you didn't have to wait foe a name to be inactive fro 3 months before, it got very silly.

i don't remember all this numbered suffix business, i dod remember finding out that after the server switch duplicate names(and i mean duplicate names not spaced) aquired invisible spacing before the name as my old strikewing would only show up in searches for " Strikewing" which i found very irksome since i had the original, and i couldn't remove the space as it didnt appear at all in his name imput box, and ended up losing the name in my attempts to get rid of the phantom space.

News Credits: 14 · by **Jetfire Masta** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 11:17 pm

This is new to me. 3 months huh. Damn, a name I was waiting to expire just went active again. Massacre needs a new name, and the one I needed is active, bah. Guess I'll wait it out

by **Tammuz** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 11:28 pm

what name was that?

by **Goribus** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 11:47 pm

Earlier tonight Veep (Venomous Prime to those not in the know) had 2 charectors named Damn You Prime active at the same time. He had to reset them both to be able to rename them. Or something. I'm not sure how he fixed em.

by **Prowl240z** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 5:44 am

Pariah wrote:I just had a quick search for some character names i'd like to try and found that there were often two transformers with the same name. I then checked the names of my own cons and found that they had occasionally been duplicated too. I was under the impression the database did not allow this..... Am i a mental again?

Cheers

There was a glitch at one point that allowed name duplication.

News Credits: 1 · by **doomboy536** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 6:06 am

Prowl240z wrote:There was a glitch at one point that allowed name duplication.

Yup, that glitch allowed me to bag the name "Tantrum" - was dead happy about that

The other player has gone though...

News Credits: 6 · by **City Commander** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:33 am

I hope this doesn't mean that I'll lose my characters' names. They were hard to get.

Incidentally, if dear ol Glyphy reads this, I would love for my HMW teams to be switched like we discussed some time ago... ;;)

News Credits: 16 · by **Super Megatron** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:44 pm

Lord Crump wrote:I hope this doesn't mean that I'll lose my characters' names. They were hard to get.

Incidentally, if dear ol Glyphy reads this, I would love for my HMW teams to be switched like we discussed some time ago...

I don't see what the big deal is about having same names for different players. Heck, this has been happening since G1. You got 2 G1 Barrages (1 insecticon, one Micromaster), various versions of Infernos across TF history, and in Beast wars itself, you got two Prowls and two Silverbolts (Fuzor, Transmetal, and Magnaboss parts) in the same line in the same wave!

Heck, I would love to see a battle with both sides having all characters named Wheelie. A real battle royale.