Is naming characters similarly really the best idea?

[Zub]

CT mail mod has an autocomplete for mailing that autocompletes your mail with the name of toons on your friends list

Doesn't Wow do that by itself now? i know it autocompletes all the names of my guildies and friends when i type in-game mails, and i don't have CT Mail.
I believe they added this to the default mail quite some time ago.

[Fizzler]

Naming them similar is certainly an easy way to ID your toons. I have never done this though in fact I am very unoriginal with my naming with the exception of my very first main Fizzler. It was a take on the Fizzle sound made when a spell failed in Asheron's Call. After that they have all been randomize, randomize.. wash rinse repeat.

[daviddoran]

2 of my teams have almost identical names, with just different accents over the letter i. It's caused me a few problems in identifying toons, such as in ZG the boss that says "Toonname! I'm watching you" and oneshots that person if they cast anything, I had no idea which of me he was targeting...

I think for my next team, im going to go with similar prefixes and different suffices, like i used to with my "rhon" prefix. Although the concept of making one of them "look" like the main, but actually be an alt is appealing, like having 4 near identical names and one oddball, people would often assume the oddball is the leader...

[Yamio]

I make my names/hair/faces different just because I never liked the way all that looks. I thought it was funny the first time I saw it but there was no way I'd ever make my team look like they all come from the same parents. It's a personal choice thou. You name them and make them look anyway you want.

[TheBigBB]

I don't have a problem with the names being different with regard to IDing them. Even though 4 of my guys are technically exactly the same in all ways, I still find myself knowing who's who. Violin is the one who always pulls aggro on the big fights and is way lower in exp because of it. Violin you unlucky rascal, you! Kickinside is my trusty enchanter and has less gold because she DEs everything rather than getting to sell it. Thebigsky finds ways to somehow lose follow and get stuck on a branch or something, despite EVERYONE ELSE MAKING IT. Come on bigsky...

Yeah I really think these things.

[Tasty]

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[KSboxers]

CT mail mod has an autocomplete for mailing that autocompletes your mail with the name of toons on your friends list

Doesn't Wow do that by itself now? i know it autocompletes all the names of my guildies and friends when i type in-game mails, and i don't have CT Mail.
I believe they added this to the default mail quite some time ago.

I've run CT mail so long i had no idea. I'll still use it for mail logging function.

[NoobShammy]

My team on Aman'thul is

Funkamaster
Funkemaster
Funkimaster
Funkomaster
Funkumaster

I will pvp with them but nothing to extreme or overly dedicated. The reason why i diid this was for my own sanity. Listing them alphabetically as well as sequentally
account 1 = a
account 2 = e
account 3 = i
account 4 = o
account 5 = u

This way it is a no brain when doing loots I know who has what and who needs what and which instance of wow i need to click in order to activate that that toon to perform a certain action.
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Furthermore it makes easy trades between characters and the toons trade skills. lets face it how many times have you said "AEIOU" Its easy and intuitive and streamlines the processes of looting/questing/account activation/trading/skilling up. I wouldnt ever do it any other way

[Stabface]

Example of "similar name backfire":

Big bad wolf encounter in Karazhan:

[Raid Warning] VELA*** is LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD!
Me: Oh SH*T WHICH ONE?!!!!

One solution to that is get your Paladin to make a macro that's '/cast [target=targettarget] Blessing of Protection'
And actually someone tonight had an addon that automatically put a skull on top of whoever was Red Riding Hood, but I have no idea which one it was (some option in DBM maybe?), which helped immensely.

On-topic, I went with variations on the Phonecian alphabet:

Alephi
Bethi
Gimeli
Dalethi
etc.

So yes they are similar enough to clearly see I'm a multiboxer, but different enough I can immediately know which is which based on my screen layout... which was 2 of my 3 goals with names (the third being no special characters).

[RobinGBrown]

I'm an RPer at heart so I always name each of my team uniquely, although I do try to come up with a theme if possible. However I do make them all look alike for some reason... (probably because I like to control their appearance rather than just select 'randomize')

My RP triple boxing team 'main' is Kharisma (BE warlock) with two slaves Vassal and Odalisk (undead warriors) - so the warriors are her necromantic minions with no will of their own - it's RP and it's multiboxing all at once!