I almost never have problems getting my names, and the most times I’ve ever had to retry are about 2-3.
Try being more original perhaps? I know for a fact the VAST majority of players name them after things or look up (usually foreign) words with meanings they want and use those.
My tactic is usually go for a low pop server where the possibility of there being names I want that haven’t been claimed is higher…which is next to impossible on higher population ones. As others have suggested, try getting creative with spelling so it’s still the name you wanted, just spelled differently.
Me I’m usually lucky because I tend to just flat make up names for my RP characters, or use names taken from the made-up language in the series of books I’m writing. The only one who knows words from that language are me and the people who read my books, so I’ve never run into any of those that are taken XD
I feel your pain. I wanted to have 3 characters named after the fairies from Mothra; Belvera, Lora, and Moll. I once had Belvera and Moll, but Lora is always taken.
And no, I’m not going to change the spelling, it wouldn’t be the same.
I steer clear of alt codes. I would use them if I needed a tilde or umlaut, but the need has not arisen where that is the case. When I see a name like that, it immediately implies that the name you wanted was taken, and rather than come up with something else, you shoehorned special characters into it. It says more about me than you, but still.
I see a few people mention about using translators for naming characters in foreign languages.
Just a FYI for people who trust Google translator for English → Japanese : I speak Japanese, and this is NOT recommended.
Not sure about how it is with other languages, but I don’t know how many times I ran into people with silly Japanese names courtesy of Google translate.
I named my Orc Hunter Ryoshi, but I think I used WWJDIC, and not Google. I server-transferred, and apparently the name was taken on the new server, so now it is Ryoshii.
I mean alt codes exist I don’t know why people won’t use these you literally can have any name you want no matter what when you mix in alt code letters in there
The best recent example is someone I saw posting here on the forums but I don’t want to be rude by bringing up their name, so… lol
Here’s one - when you look up the word “curse”, you will get “noroi”.
Which is fine itself, but the problem is, “noroi” also means “stupid slow / dull / clumsy” using different Kanjis.
This may not be Google’s fault so to speak, as it’s more about people not knowing some of these words have different meanings, like how the word “spring” has several different meanings.
But you don’t want to be running around unknowingly labeling yourself “clumsy” when you thought you gave your character a cool name.
Ryoshi with an extra i is fine… I can take a guess that the name was already taken and you had to add another letter.
I am fascinated by the names people choose. It reflects on their character so much. I definitely get very judgy when I see a name that is a common word misspelled. And it amuses me a lot when I see a name that doesn’t mean what the player thinks it means (unless they intended to look like an idiot, in which case, good job!).