Actually my understanding is that you can petition a gm for inactive players to be removed or renamed in order for a name to be freed up for another player?WHY DID THIS NOT POST RIGHT.
Anyway, alas, it is only for characters under level 10, according to several ticketed GMs over the course of the years. But then again, they also told me I couldn’t get that chestplate back, BUT I PERSISTED. So maybe I should ride on this benevolent GM luck I’ve got going.
The trick is that the account the character is attached to has to be inactive for a <indeterminate> period of time.