Camelot Grab Bag Q&A

EA Mythic's Missy Hatch has posted another one of her weekly Dark Age of Camelot Grab Bag Q&A features on the Camelot Herald.
Q. I'm considering deleting and rerolling one of my characters, but would like to keep the name. The name is duplicated on the cluster, but not on the server. If I delete the character, can I still create a new character with the same name?

A. Says the Bearded Wonder: If the name is already taken on the cluster elsewhere, you cannot get it on another character, even if you delete a character that had that name previously as a duplicate. We designed it this way to avoid having too many duplicated names on a cluster. It would have been really time consuming, difficult, and unfair to change existing duplicated character names, and so this was the only way we were able to curb the instance of duped names. So if you really really like your name and you know someone else on the cluster has it, you should definitely not delete that character.