Besides following Keyaz\'s advice, the Naming Rules window apears no matter what name you put in, as a reminder of what is allowed and what isn\'t. There is no \"script\" that checks your name to see if it is valid in PlaneShift or not. You will only experience problems if you know (or suspect or are just blind ignorant) of a bad choice and a GM approaches you aboud renaming,
in-game.
Also keep in mind that you cannot have two capital letters in a name, so \"LasKaler\" will become \"Laskaler.\"
As for problems waiting for the world to load, ensure first that the
server is up at the time of your connection attempt, and that you have UDP port 7777 open on any routers or firewalls you may have installed. You can also try to ping laanx.fragnetics.com (on Windows: Start -> Run... -> ping laanx.fragnetics.com) and if the connection times out, it\'s a problem you don\'t quite have a way of solving - just wait a bit and try again later.