New Toons Disappearing on Log in

[ldl167]

I installed a new NWN with new keys, created a new acct and created a new toon (sorc Yuan-ti human, named Max the Grey) & gave it some gear from another acct.  When I relogged, the first toon was not in the character list. So redid a new toon (same name, same race). Again when i relogged, the 2nd new toon was not in the list. So created a 3rd toon (just a human fighter). When i relogged, the 2nd and 3rd toons (2nd sorc and fighter) were now in the char list.  The 1st toon was not. 

I unfortunately gave the first sorc toon (which did not reappear) a sapphire which is now gone. Any chance to retrieve?  If not, not a big deal but curious if anyone else had this happen to them.

Toons were created today (Nov 11/21) around 11:30am ADT.

Thanks
Max

[chirality]

Always a bad idea to use the same name twice.

I don't know about why the first one wasn't there initially. You should delete the other one(s) with the same name, though, and it might come back eventually. Sometimes I have had weird stuff like that happen and eventually they re-appear (maybe tied to the server created on resetting, or maybe tied to the database interfacing with NWN, or something else entirely, I don't know).

Anyway, there would be a log of handing the sapphire over, so there's that at least if the character remains inaccessible (the screenshot is cropped too much to really prove anything, to be honest). You could put what server it happened on too if you can still remember.

[chainlink]

It wasn't another instance of this highergroundpoa.proboards.com/thread/26532/missing-character-on-411-415 was it?

[kid]

I logged on to server 313 to see how Max was making out with his new account so I can confirm loss of items and the first Yuan-ti sorc disappearance. I suggested the same name use because I was curious if the game would recognize the same name and wouldn't allow the 2nd toon to log in. Obviously I was incorrect and the game allowed the same name toon to log in.

[Deleted]

I’ve named my bard the same name as another bard. Deleting the second made the first appear again. You just have the stupid 24 hour cooldown for the same name to be used again crap

[chirality]

Nov 12, 2021 19:35:45 GMT kid said:

I logged on to server 313 to see how Max was making out with his new account so I can confirm loss of items and the first Yuan-ti sorc disappearance. I suggested the same name use because I was curious if the game would recognize the same name and wouldn't allow the 2nd toon to log in. Obviously I was incorrect and the game allowed the same name toon to log in.

That makes sense to test. Since it did let him log in with the same name right afterwards, it shows that the first toon name never got saved by whatever process makes new toon names respect the 24-hour name re-use interval. In other words, since that didn't trigger, the toon name apparently wasn't returned as previously used, and therefore probably wasn't saved properly/universally in the first place.

Nov 12, 2021 20:15:28 GMT @prepared said:

I’ve named my bard the same name as another bard. Deleting the second made the first appear again. You just have the stupid 24 hour cooldown for the same name to be used again crap

Right, yeah. I meant "bad idea within the 24-hr period" but didn't specify. Yup, after that it doesn't matter.

[ldl167]

Server was 313. Sounds similar to the example that Chain referenced but I didn't check other servers at the time to see if the first toon was there.

I did delete the 2nd sorc toon so we will see if the first toon magically appears with my lost sapphire.

Thanks for the responses.