invalid Charactor

Go'f · Post by **Go'f** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 7:20 pm

I created a new charactor and got an Error with him that I am hopping has a simple explanation and fix.

Charactor name "Arms Master Go'f of house Del'Armgo" race "Half-Orc", subd race "half-Ogre".
Error: "failed verification" and rejected from server before subrace comes up.

It has been suggested to me that the problem is due to a sub-race corruption, I suspect that may be spot on correct as I have "
half-Ogre", not Half-Ogre, or half-ogre so the mixed casing may be confusing the verification process.

If it is possible to have this charactors subrace deleted so I can test this theory I would be greatly appreciative, especialy as its on my new ID created to avoid the problem of the corrupted and useless charactors cluttering my logon ID.

Post by **TGPO** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 7:24 pm

No theory needed, the name is to long. 32 characters max and spaces count. As its not something that is bumped into too often its not one of the well known checks. There are issues with long names that can crash the server, so ... no long names.

Go'f · Post by **Go'f** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 7:27 pm

TGPO wrote:No theory needed, the name is to long. 32 characters max and spaces count. As its not something that is bumped into too often its not one of the well known checks. There are issues with long names that can crash the server, so ... no long names.

Can it be fixed for me? if so change to "Arms Master Go'f"

Post by **TGPO** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 7:29 pm

its databased already

. We could change it, but you'll get an invalid character.

Go'f · Post by **Go'f** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 7:46 pm

TGPO wrote:its databased already . We could change it, but you'll get an invalid character.

Thanks again for the quick responce, always appreciated.

The ability to Delete Charactors is a real long term playability issue in this wonderful world, I know its not a priority at due to the desire to add more content, let me explain from a players perspective.

It upsets me everytime I see the number of bad charactors I have and reminds me of difficulties with unique implietation and house rules making some of my early builds useless as well as times where the server lag/crash has crashed a charactor. I would rather not have the reminders everytime I log on, without delete you invariably collect a few at the start due to the house rules (which are great once you understand them) then the longer you play the more of them you collect as lag and resets kill a few more before you even get started with them (transition zone problems) and now I can add to the list of new charactor problems Charactor name length (I guess this one is a BIOWARE fault) which becomes something as your corrupt charactos already have all the good names.

Do we know how much work is there in making it possible to delete Charactors, IMHO it's something that would enhance the gaming experience and something I would like to see even before Jobs for my own faction.

NOTE: This is one mans opinion and I may be in the minority but I need to get it out there.

Post by **TGPO** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 7:56 pm

Its being looked into, the problem is overall how to make sure all the db hooks are cleared and reset. Deleting a character is actually fairly straight forward, clearing all the db settings and reseting them is the time consuming bit of research that holds everything up.

MLoki · Post by **MLoki** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:39 pm

Just found out the hard way that it does include the automatic space that is created between the first and last name. I checked and double checked the length of the name I was creating to make sure it was only 32 letters (including spaces) but I did not include the space that I didn't actually type in. So just make sure you only use 31 characters if you are using a first and last name. Can someone please tell me who I should get in touch with to have this character deleted?

MLoki

Lorkar1 · Post by **Lorkar1** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:08 pm

I have been told Zing is the man to pm, although I did just that a month ago and have not received a reply.

Post by **Zing** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:07 pm

Lorkar1 wrote:I have been told Zing is the man to pm, although I did just that a month ago and have not received a reply.

My apologies Lorkar. I must have misplaced your PM, I've looked and can see that I did receive it.

To clarify for other players reading this. I often get PMs asking me to delete characters which can not be deleted in game such as those with invalid names or those which fail server entry checks. Lorkars request was one such message.

It makes sense for me to save a few of these requests up and do them all in one go, otherwise I'd never get any real work done (big update coming this week by the way

).

If you've sent me a request and got no reply within a few days feel free to send me a freindly reminder.

Cheers

Z

Lorkar1 · Post by **Lorkar1** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 1:18 am

No biggie, I would rather have updates and content instead of my not having to scroll through a few toons that I did not name properly. On the topic of naming, can someone maybe put the 32 character rule in the new player guide and maybe sticky it in the forums under FAQ's. It's too bad that it cant be displayed when you choose the name.
Thanks again Zing.

*Edited for stupidity

MLoki · Post by **MLoki** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 1:28 am

TGPO wrote:No theory needed, the name is to long. 32 characters max and spaces count. As its not something that is bumped into too often its not one of the well known checks. There are issues with long names that can crash the server, so ... no long names.

Just so we don't get confused it is 32 characters max.

MLoki

Lorkar1 · Post by **Lorkar1** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 1:32 am

My bad, the 35 character thing was how long my last F'd toons name was.

Post by **Zing** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 1:35 am

This has been a sticky under News and Announcements since last June.

http://www.nsrealm.com/public/ns4/viewtopic.php?t=4848