Quote:
Originally Posted by bog18dy
That's not what he meant, I think he meant that once a player deletes one of his chars, that name can be reused.
|
My bad. Characters names usually can't be re-used after deleting them and here is why:
After a character gets deleted it gets stored in a "Deleted Characters" table.
So incase somebody deleted them by mistake they can be restored by the staff (same goes for items btw).
There would be a conflict if in the meantime another user made a character with the same name.
There are two different stored procedures for deleting characters.
One deletes it completely and one puts it in the "reserve" table for the mentioned reasons.
The only solution for this would be deleting them manually with the "delete complete" procedure which can be done only by staff members.
Quote:
Originally Posted by xtJamie
Afaik, if you delete the name, it becomes available instantly. Tried it several time through pa and GC.
|
I don't know about the current GC DB structure but in our DB it won't work, if it did in PA then it probably was because the DB got restored in the meantime.
