Originally Posted by EVILPIG
The GDC demo showed a character selection screen. That could change. I would be for a universal ID, where your name would be the same now matter what empire you played. Multiple characters are not necessary since you will be working on progress towards all roles on your avatar. However, they could have a character per empire, if they decide to allow multiple empires per account per server.
As for name reservations, it's a lot more complicated than just taking the data from PS1 and giving you those names. PS1 went through server merges and the Werner characters would be reserved for the European service, not the North American server. Then you have the issue of how many servers there will be. Will it be one server for NA? NA West and NA East? Or multiple Western and Eastern NA servers? Same for the Euro service.
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yea go for universal ID, white it doesn't have the same effect if the game were B2P or P2P, atleast it will keep the names with stupid accsents and XxX and IlII at bay.
also you should be able to only reserve one name that you hold on PS1 on your account for PS2, there's no reason somebody should be holding like 20 names they wont use.