Hi everyone!

Here as you can see I am a fan of the saga of Dune novels by Frank Herbert, problem when creating my character I made a spelling mistake in Harkonnen ... So that is it possible to put the missing N?

Thank you in advance!

Anyway it's no big deal to add a single letter!! Why be so intransigent?

Edit: TL;DR: adding/removing/changing a letter has significant consequences (which changing the case doesn't have)

Because your character name is a unique identifier (or key) that CCP can use to retrieve and store information. As time passes and you play the game, you end up interacting with more and more services where your character name is used for access. Changing your characters name changes the access token, meaning that CCP would have to go through every service you may or may not have interacted with, and change the listing. If they don't, then your character after the change would would lose access to that information (losing corp history, stats, inventory, etc). Additionally, this might leave behind orphaned records, which take up space, and can cause conflicts with future characters who might use the same name. As to why changing cases isn't an issue, I would assume that whenever they perform a look-up, it probably converts the string to a specific case.

In python, there is a data structure called a dict'(short for dictionary). You add information to it by giving it a key, which is a string (a series of characters), and a ]b]value[/b] which is the information you want to store. You can add many key/value pairs to that dict, creating a versatile structure for storing information. In order to retrieve a value, you give it a string, and that string must exactly match the key.

For example, you have a merc named "Dud" and whenever the server tries to look up his information, it uses the key "dud" (the all lowercase version of his name). He somehow manages to change his name to "Dude" and the server now uses "dude" as the key. Since "dude" doesn't match "dud," the server won't be able to retrieve any of his previously stored data.

Another merc named "GoOdLuCk ReAdInGtHis" decides to change his name to "GoodLuck ReadingThis." Since the lowercase versions of both names are the same, the server has no issue looking up previous information.

Wrong, oh so so so so very very wrong.

They have a numeric charID.



Lol, yes... I bet they're storing everything as a big dump of a python dict.



More lol.

It was a basic example, I would find it extremely unlikely that a characters information is stored in any one specific location. As for the character IDs, I know they use numerical identifiers for the API and other external uses, but that isn't necessarily a representation of what is used internally. As I don't work for CCP, I can only make a guess as to what they have implemented. Given the restrictions in place, I only attempted to give a plausible reason as to why it might be this way.