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Kalk
12-04-2010, 06:11 AM
Taken from the .SG Hotel..


Starting this week we’ll begin combining the databases of the various Habbo Hotels (.com, .com.sg, .com.au, co.uk (http://co.uk/) and .ca).



The first stage of this will involve Habbo names. This update is planned to start tomorrow; and we'll let you know when it has happened in your Hotel.



When you sign into Habbo after the update you may see an additional character, such as an '*'. For your convenience, here's the list of characters per country:



US: $
CA: &
UK: #
AU: ^
SG: *



Once you have logged in and entered the hotel, you will be asked if you want to keep this new name or change it altogether. If you want to change your Habbo name you will be able to do so, however your potential new name will be checked against all the English speaking sites for availability. As already stated, the most active user across all five sites will be the user who gets to keep their name. The others will have to change. Even though countries will be getting this update at different times this week, that doesn't mean the first country will have 'first pick' of names.



You should start using Habbo ID as soon as possible so that you can log in to Habbo using your email as a username.


This will make it easier for you to remember your account details if you’re prompted to change your Habbo name.


To make more names available to you, next week we’ll also be deleting Habbo accounts that contain no Furniture or Credits and have only been used once.


Finally, if you currently have the same name across a few Hotels it will be possible to combine your accounts into one, once the relaunch has been completed.



The next update will be on May 3rd, in the meantime be sure to check out our FAQs for more information about the upcoming relaunch!


I'm loving the bit in bold! :D

Moved by Okapia (Trialist Forum Moderator): from "Habbo UK News and Rumours."

Xoim
12-04-2010, 06:38 AM
Nice, Maybe I have a chance of getting a good name ;) :P

::Art::
12-04-2010, 06:46 AM
I wonder about Gary or something like that :P

Ajthedragon
12-04-2010, 08:08 AM
I want DragonTamer, or Aydan. :S

Cosmic
12-04-2010, 08:42 AM
This seems like the most straightforward news on names so far. But it's good news and I hope I manage to get a new, nicer name.

-mastercasino-
12-04-2010, 09:01 AM
I want some thing much better than my name now but i hope its avalibile(yn)

scott
12-04-2010, 09:14 AM
Should be good, I want to try get a good name but i want to keep Dinasaw, i'll just use one of my other accoutns (yn)

dbgtz
12-04-2010, 09:16 AM
yes I can merge all my dbgtzs into one super dbgtz
why couldn't we have the sterling symbol?

Sameer!
12-04-2010, 09:16 AM
yep this is a good move to begin with.

dogboy123
12-04-2010, 09:20 AM
Awwww I hope I get a nice username off that, seems like good news so far!

sammy
12-04-2010, 09:31 AM
Sounds interesting - i might get a decent name now :|!

Nyxs
12-04-2010, 10:03 AM
When they say The user that is the most active do they mean:

1) The user that has been Active Most Recently
or
2) The User that had the account first

????????????????????????????

Cosmic
12-04-2010, 10:06 AM
When they say The user that is the most active do they mean:

1) The user that has been Active Most Recently
or
2) The User that had the account first

????????????????????????????

The user that has been most active recently. I assume they count things like online time level, months of hc, etc.

Grippz
12-04-2010, 11:07 AM
I'm not bothered about a new name, I want to keep grippz lol

qaxzsw
12-04-2010, 01:31 PM
Damn UK gets suckish symbol.. # :<

& Would be the best symbol..

ShineAway
12-04-2010, 09:26 PM
They said they have an "ace up their sleeve" for the limited choice for new names, could this mean the allowing of new symbols?

iChaz
13-04-2010, 03:42 AM
They said they have an "ace up their sleeve" for the limited choice for new names, could this mean the allowing of new symbols?

No, the ace was the deletion of inactive accounts. How dense lol

Tootish
13-04-2010, 11:19 AM
When are the deleted "rare name" accounts available to be registered? :S

Verrou
13-04-2010, 12:39 PM
They deleted accounts with no furni and that had only logged in once last week. So they are probably gone by now.

iChaz
13-04-2010, 04:34 PM
they're deleted now, I managed to get a couple.. albeit they're awful lol the likely hood that a "good" name would be deleted for inactivity on five hotels is low, therefore there isn't actually that many :( if you search and are very lucky you should find a good one though.

ShineAway
13-04-2010, 09:09 PM
Theres a name that I want soo badly, all of the accounts with the name have been deleted on every other english hotel except .com.sg, from it's habbo homepage, it has no rooms, and was created in 2005. Have Singapore given out gifts or credits to all habbos or something? :(

Becca
13-04-2010, 09:54 PM
Awwww I hope I get a nice username off that, seems like good news so far!
YOU CAN'T CHANGE DOGBOY123. Because you are dogboy.. face it.

Smits
13-04-2010, 09:57 PM
I dont even want a new name so i wont and havnt tried to get one.

Gibs960
14-04-2010, 06:59 AM
my account on au is called Gibby99989 and my one of habbo UK is banned and its called Gibby99989 :( So are they gonna unban :S

Blinger1
14-04-2010, 07:02 AM
No, you get gibby98784783763# or gibby989998999876557^ or whatever the unique thing is ;)

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18-04-2010, 11:54 PM
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19-04-2010, 11:54 PM
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Allyy-Lovee
20-04-2010, 05:49 AM
I'm definitely not worried about this becausee I know I will keep my name!! but I feel bad for all those people who have to lose their names :(
and what happens when their name is like, A# and someone needs to change their name to A# on a different hotel? :S

Cosmic
20-04-2010, 03:01 PM
I'm definitely not worried about this becausee I know I will keep my name!! but I feel bad for all those people who have to lose their names :(
and what happens when their name is like, A# and someone needs to change their name to A# on a different hotel? :S

You can't create accounts with # $ ^ * & in, if that's what you mean.

So like if someone had A on .com and it was used more than the same name on any other hotel, the others will have had their names changed to A# A^ A* A&

Hope that makes sense :)

Jorc
20-04-2010, 05:17 PM
What happens if we don't change our name or click the option to keep our name? Do they decide for you to keep it? Because I want my accounts Jorc merged lol, so I don't know if i should "keep them" or not touch either option. Obviously I'm not going to change it or they probably won't merge.

Cosmic
20-04-2010, 05:49 PM
If you chose to keep your name, you'll keep it with the symbol, e.g. Jorc* and you wont be able to change it again I don't think. Personally I've just left all my variations with the symbols because it's easier.

Jorc
20-04-2010, 07:18 PM
But did you choose to keep them option or just not choose either option?

Cosmic
20-04-2010, 07:24 PM
I chose to keep :)

ihatehash
21-04-2010, 10:52 AM
I had to change my name :( ******* ********

Describe
22-04-2010, 07:43 PM
I still haven't had a message about describe.

lol
23-04-2010, 03:05 AM
^that's because you don't have to change it :P

Blinger$
23-04-2010, 04:02 AM
i lost m so i got m^ :(

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