{"id":304,"date":"2005-10-11T07:27:49","date_gmt":"2005-10-11T13:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2005\/10\/reserve-names\/"},"modified":"2005-10-11T07:27:49","modified_gmt":"2005-10-11T13:27:49","slug":"reserve-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/10\/reserve-names.html","title":{"rendered":"Reserve names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showflat.php?Cat=&#038;Board=info&#038;Number=3845194&#038;bodyprev=#Post3845194\">This is probably a Good Thing<\/a>, but I&#8217;m sure some folks aren&#8217;t in a mood for anything that smacks of further &#8220;restrictions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">Starting 10\/24\/2005 the City of Heroes and City of Villains character name policy will change. <strong>Names for characters under level 35 on game accounts that have been inactive for over 90 days<\/strong> will be changed to unreserved status. This means that those names will become available for new character names if picked by an active player. This policy is being enacted in order to free up character names based on player feedback.<br \/>\nThat actually seems pretty reasonable &#8212; more than reasonable, in fact.  If your <em>game account<\/em> is inactive for <em>over three months<\/em>, your character&#8217;s name <em>might <\/em>get recycled (if someone chooses to try to take it).  And if the character is level 35 or higher, the name is still safe.  I have no idea how many names this affects, but it seems pretty straightforward to me.  At worst, it&#8217;s not like your character is being deleted (which is pretty remarkable), but that you might have to rename Miss Mystery to Lady Mystery or something like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is probably a Good Thing, but I&#8217;m sure some folks aren&#8217;t in a mood for anything that smacks of further &#8220;restrictions.&#8221; Starting 10\/24\/2005 the City of Heroes and City of Villains character name policy will change. Names for characters under level 35 on game accounts that have been inactive for over 90 days will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/10\/reserve-names.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reserve names&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}