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Character's with same names over-save one another.

I made a character, Dirgen Helmsadam, ranger. I abandoned it a minute after I created it in the beginning area (where the statues of those who reached the surface are shown).

I made another character, same name, but fighter. Played him for about hour and half. Got to level 3. Did the bat quest inside the Town Hall. Walked into the Stand and logged.

I logged into the server. Only one Dirgen Helmsadam is shown. I log in with it. It's the first character, naked as a baby, shows up in the Stand where my second Dirgen was logged out.

Exact same spot.

Any ideas if it's possible to get the second Dirgen to come back some how?

Edit: Also of probably important note. I remember now that while I was playing the second, fighter Dirgen, I lept on getting the message that character token could not be found. Often when I was interacting with NPCs or the like.

It can't be helped. Don't do characters with same name, before getting other of them erased. Sorry =/

I also overwrote a character today in a similar way and experienced strange bugs. I reported it to the DM channel directly when it happened (but got no response.)

The issues I experienced were probably bad enough to motivate either explicitly write down in the server rules that you may not do this, or make it impossible to do so (or, I suppose, fix the issues).

Basically: the new character appeared where the old one was (out in the IC world!) with NWN-default equipment. As level 1, without having received the XP bonus to directly level up to level two.

(By the way: I noticed how hard it is to level up a character from level 1. All the quests, also the delivery ones, are level 2 minimum. I hope no one can get to level 1 by dying...)