I just signed up and downloaded Plane Shift. I look forward to trying it out and joining the community when I have time. But at the Character Creation section I hit what seems a rather limiting feature of the requirements. It's something that in my mind is contradictory so I will try to outline my arguments for clarification.

The issue is that my names keep returning either "first name is in use" or "Second name is in use"...

This is extremely limiting. Every character must have a unique name for both names! I understand the need to prevent replicated names but since you use a two name system why not limit it to "Your full name is in use", reflected when both names are actually in use an not when just one of them is in use.

Additionally if you want to maintain the RPG rule you might want to do this because after a while you will end up with characters with random letters and perhaps the need to add numbers. I'm not a player who likes random generated names at all so I keep typing which has led me here in frustration!

Food for thought! Cheers,.