Nostalrius Begins - Quality wow vanilla realm (1.12)

Earlier I tried to create a character with 5 or so different versions of the same name, all of them were 'unavailable'.
So out of curiosity I decided to make a test character and /who the names to check the level of those who took them. Does /who only work for logged-in characters? Because not one of the "unavailable" names showed up on either Alliance or Horde characters.

Also, despite the server's high population I never expected the name game to be this hard, do people just claim names on level 1 characters and leave them there or something?

Greetings

There is over 7k players online at the most.
If you fill your character list you have 11 characters per player
That is a total of 77000 characters per account.

If your name is a popular/common/known name it might have been taken by now sadly

Yes, /who only returns characters online. Yes, people do claim names and park the toon for a later date.

Diametra wrote:Yes, /who only returns characters online. Yes, people do claim names and park the toon for a later date.

What a rude thing to do, I'd never do that. Well I guess I'll resist the temptation to spell my name entirely in french-accented letters, wish me luck!

resist the temptation to use any diacriticals.