Name invalid or unavailable. Reminder - No special characters, spaces or numbers allowed. WTF

[[ZeroG]SheppardSG1]

Hello i just download the game and when im trying to registered its saying
Name invalid or unavailable. Reminder - No special characters, spaces or numbers allowed.
no matter what username i type in thanks for help

[Berserkr]

spaces and underscores are definitely allowed, try a test name like testjugg or snipertest or with an x in the middle, if it won't let you in with a test name like that then something's definitely screwed up

[Mirabilis]

Try the random name generator, though I've heard many of those names are already taken!
Maybe generate a random name and try to change a few characters in it, there are millions toons in the game by far and those 'auto generated' names often tend to be taken.

[Zero McDol]

Originally posted by Berserkr:

spaces and underscores are definitely allowed, try a test name like testjugg or snipertest or with an x in the middle, if it won't let you in with a test name like that then something's definitely screwed up

They are, but sometimes they don't work correctly and result in getting that message. Personally, I've tried using spaces, months ago, to not avail.

[virpyre]

1. You may not use any names that violate the General Rules. This includes the use of names that are hateful, defamatory, racist, ethnically offensive, obscene, vulgar, sexually explicit, or any other language that is offensive in nature.


2. You may not use names that are harassing or defamatory to other players or employees of EA, BioWare or LucasArts, e.g. EASUX, Timsretarded, and Biowaresux.


3. You may not use names of any EA, BioWare, or LucasArts employee or service related to Star Wars: The Old Republic.


4. You may not use names of copyrighted or trademarked characters, materials or products, e.g. Coca-Cola or Dr. Pepper.


5. You may not use names from popular culture or media, e.g. Lady Gaga or George Lucas.


6. You may not use names that are religiously or historically significant, e.g. Jesus, Winston Churchill.


7. You may not use proper names of areas within Star Wars for character names. Guild names, however, MAY use the proper names of specific areas to help promote role-playing and realm pride, e.g. Defenders of Tython or Protectors of Hutta.


8. You may not use proper names of non-player characters within Star Wars: The Old Republic, e.g. Darth Malgus, Satele Shan, Yoda, Darth Vader or Luke Skywalker.


9. You may not use names containing titles or ranks within them, e.g. General Supertrooper, Captain Tim, Darth Timmy, Knight Wakey.


10. You may not use names that refer to drugs or that are drug related.


11. You may not use names that contain an inappropriate phrase, sentence or any fragment of a sentence or Leet speak, e.g. uberhaxer, xxspeederxx, lolface, rofl, Noobwhacker, TimmyF**k, ♥♥♥♥, ♥♥♥.


12. You may not use misspellings or alternative spellings of names that violate any of the above rules, e.g. Hamsolo, Yooda, DorthVader.


13. You may not use gibberish names when creating character, e.g. ajsdu, rifndsw, qweszs.


14. You must choose a name that no one else on your server has already chosen.

15. The max character naming is limited to 21 characters.