Turbine Games Q&A/Character/Q-04

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Why can you...

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Asked:	2000.10.31
Name:	Daca
Question Title:	Why can you...
Category:	Character
Question:	Why is it if you try and create a character with the same name as another player-character it says that name already exists, but if you try to create a character with the same name as a NPC you can (provided of course nobody hasn't already done this) ?

Answered:	2000.10.31
Name:	devilmouse
Answer:	Player names are all registered in the SQL database and are therefore "easy" to check for conflicts. NPC names are held elsewhere and not readily available to do lookups on.