Names!

I've been wanting to change the name of one of my alts for a little while, and figured I should probably ask if what I wanted was even possible before buying the token.

Is it possible to make names with a ' in them? Any other limitations I should be aware of?

I've had some troubles with naming in character creation before, and so don't trust it enough to spend based on what it says, nor could I find a ticket category specific to my question. *prods forums* :D

I would assume that if you can make a character with the desired name (say, on Blight), then you should be able to rename your alt to it. If I recall correctly, though, apostrophes (and most, if not all, other nonalphabetical symbols) are not allowed in names.

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Originally Posted by Raptress

I would assume that if you can make a character with the desired name (say, on Blight), then you should be able to rename your alt to it. If I recall correctly, though, apostrophes (and most, if not all, other nonalphabetical symbols) are not allowed in names.

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This isn't entirely true. People on Chaos have all sorts of symbols in their names. If it passes as a valid character, it'll go. Name enforcement is nonexistent so it's only you vs the filter. As far as I know the apostrophe, hyphen and tilde are valid.

I do not think that ' are allowed anymore. I recall a long time ago, you could do that in a name but somewhere along the way that stopped being possible. However, you could try it on a blight character and if it works, great! But if not, well then its no longer possible.

Yeah, I remember the same thing as Arzel. A number of nonalphabetical characters used to be valid but were later made invalid. A good number of people still have characters with names that have those symbols, but trying to do that now will not get past the filter. I just went and actually checked in character creation; apostrophes, hyphens, and tildes are all no longer valid for character names.

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Originally Posted by Raptress

Yeah, I remember the same thing as Arzel. A number of nonalphabetical characters used to be valid but were later made invalid. A good number of people still have characters with names that have those symbols, but trying to do that now will not get past the filter. I just went and actually checked in character creation; apostrophes, hyphens, and tildes are all no longer valid for character names.

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Except when you use a character rename token, you rename your character via launcher and it is not bound to the same filtering system in game at creation.

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Originally Posted by Dracillion

Except when you use a character rename token, you rename your character via launcher and it is not bound to the same filtering system in game at creation.

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Well surely then someone out there can confirm this and prove it because they have done it in the last five years using a rename token? I'd feel awful if the OP spent the money for a renaming token only to find out that yes they can type an ' or a - in their name only to have the system go no. That is an awful lot of pocket change to ask someone to waste on a maybe.

Thanks all for the replies :D