Is naming characters similarly really the best idea?

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Originally Posted by 'moji',index.php?page=Thread&postID=115715#post115 715

My experience now with running similar names, is don't. Make 'em different. And another thing, make them in alphabetical order. With my current setup, when they're put in a party, where they're loading in the 4 pip screens on the right had side, don't correspond to the order of the unit frames on the left. Might be a way to fix this with pitbull, but I'm not sure atm. I could change the login order of the screens to put them alphabetically, but I dont want to mess up the rest of my toons. Using PiP and leaderless targeting, I get confused as to who the lead toon is sometimes, not that it matters much, but still, I'm confusing myself for very little gain long term.

My second team, warlocks and shadow/discholy priests, I'm naming after alcohol. <Dotting under the Influence> Someone else here gave me that idea but off the top of my head I can't remember who.

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The party frame is grouped by the "age" of the character (the reverse order in which they were created).

The youngest is always first and the oldest is always last.

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Originally Posted by 'Jaese',index.php?page=Thread&postID=115938#post11 5938

The party frame is grouped by the "age" of the character (the reverse order in which they were created).
The youngest is always first and the oldest is always last.

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Aye this is true; I created my chars in Captain Planet order: Urth, Flayme, Wind, Waturr, Mana. In Urth's party list, it shows Mana at top, then Waturr, then Wind, then Flayme at bottom. :P

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Originally Posted by 'Jaese',index.php?page=Thread&postID=115938#post11 5938

The party frame is grouped by the "age" of the character (the reverse order in which they were created).

The youngest is always first and the oldest is always last.

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AH so that's how it works.

Well I looked again and my toons are in alpabetical order if circuit is party leader, but the rest is backwards, because I created them in order. Any way to modify this?

I'd be happy if they'd just let us reorder our characters on the character selection screen. :pinch: I hate how my bank toon is first the list and my main is halfway down. Also, it'd be nice if all the shammies on all my accounts were either all first or last...

I've had two experiences with different groups.
With one group, where they all had similar names, they were called botters more frequently. But it did have a confusion pattern. Especially if 3 are similar to each other, and 2 others are similar to each other (where your main is in this one, and has the later alphanumeric name). The big problem is that though your enemies may be confused, so willl you sometimes.

I donno about all you guys. I keep hearing these stories about being flamed, and cursed haxor, etc but they second I tell people about dual-boxing.com they usually send me a msg back asking about my hardware setup or which program I'm using to run all my characters so they can do it too.

I felt as though naming my characters very similar tells people that I am a multiboxer and tens of people have recognized it and im not even out of the 40s on kel'thuzad.

I've always felt like I was the last one to know what multi boxing is because everyone else seems cool with it.

I think if my characters were named randomly without a them that i'd be less distinguishable as a multiboxer and that would suck because that is what I am.

All my toons are named after wine grapes. I have 2 new shaman orc females that I added to my 3 shaman Cows. I cant count how many times people asked me about 3 boxing because they cant see my orcs inside my cows. If you ever want to hide toons use Cows. This may be why people try to attack me solo. When I have everyone on follow it almost looks like 2 cows standing there.

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Originally Posted by 'pinotnoir',index.php?page=Thread&postID=124755#po st124755

All my toons are named after wine grapes. I have 2 new shaman orc females that I added to my 3 shaman Cows. I cant count how many times people asked me about 3 boxing because they cant see my orcs inside my cows. If you ever want to hide toons use Cows. This may be why people try to attack me solo. When I have everyone on follow it almost looks like 2 cows standing there.

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haha nice one i didnt think of that! :D

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Originally Posted by 'pinotnoir',index.php?page=Thread&postID=124755#po st124755

All my toons are named after wine grapes. I have 2 new shaman orc females that I added to my 3 shaman Cows. I cant count how many times people asked me about 3 boxing because they cant see my orcs inside my cows. If you ever want to hide toons use Cows. This may be why people try to attack me solo. When I have everyone on follow it almost looks like 2 cows standing there.

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My moonkin hides all my other toons. haha. I'm not trying to hide, though, just can't avoid it.