This would be alright as long as it did not disturb gameplay.  The names that some people already have in game make it hard enough to /tell them as it is.  The full name should be an additional detail of the character, but should not be necessary either.  Some people I know have gone by their nick for so long that really no one knows them by their real name anymore.

Maybe a system that where you target a player and type /name you could see their full name...or better yet it prompts the person to accept letting you know the name.  That way if they don\'t want to tell you their name you don\'t know it.  *shrugs*

My guess is the Devs are doing something to the server or database and set it so that there are no logins at the moment...it would explain the problem some.

To add to your confusion I will try to give a little detail from my experience.  My first character I created (named Ierth) was a success and loaded into the database fine.  I used the standard Quick Setup method accepting defaults and choosing a preset class to configure the character.

I later decided that I wanted to play with the character creation process some to see what the custom creation was like.  I started to create a second character (I believe Saelegra) and went through the custom process.  This resulted in a linkdead error messsage.  I closed and quit the game and restarted to log in as the new character...again a linkdead error.  I thought that it might not have gone through and so I started the creation process over, but it said that character name was already taken.  i quit the game again and restarted.  During login this second time with the charachter Saelegra I was able to log in and play the game a little with the character.

From this I can deduce a potential problem.  It seems that skills and probably even more likely the Advantages/Disadvantages that are not implimented in game are causing trouble when loading the character.  When the database is initializing the character and comes to an ability that it does not know how to impliment (in the case of this character I think it might have been the \"Magic Item\" Advantage) it takes too long for the response and the client times out while waiting for the database.  The database it seems is still doing its job creating the character, just that since the client did not recieve a response in a set time it considered the link with the database to be \"dead\".

Hope this helps.
- Ierth