City of Heroes nears launch...

[WarLocke]

So, the Name Reservation server went up a little while ago. Basically, you log in and make a 'throw-away' character on the server, and that name is reserved for your account across all servers from the release on the 28th to March 15th.

I got in, reserved "The Atomic Woman", and am satisfied. But there are a ton of people who are losing their names, because before today the official line was "The first name in the character list (per server) is reserved on that server" and now many people who have been active on the COH boards for 2+ years are having their names snapped up before they can reserve them. It's a damn shame.

The only other thing that annoys me is that, apparently, you don't get access to your reserved name until you get a retail serial code to activate your 'release' account. So I've reserved the Atomic Woman, but I'll have to play another character during the preorder 3-day headstart, which kind of defeats the purpose of the whole thing; the idea was to have some sort of level spread at release, where the preorders were in the low or maybe mid teens so the newbie areas ween't so swamped. Well, if I have to wait for release anyway to play my main character, you can be sure I'll be dumping my temporary alt to do so, and there I am back in the newbie crush. Bah.