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New character not on searches.

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Nura Taron
Doomheim
#1 - 2012-04-06 22:21:43 UTC
How long does it take a new character to show up on character searches?
Sasha Khaine
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2012-04-07 21:02:39 UTC
Nura Taron wrote:
How long does it take a new character to show up on character searches?


Usually a day, or after daily maintenance from experience

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Nura Taron
Doomheim
#3 - 2012-04-08 01:04:36 UTC
Thanks.
Kiandoshia
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2012-04-08 10:48:47 UTC
Yeah I noticed that as well. Was actually quite irritating because I thought I was misspelling the name all the time.
Garrus Ongrard
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#5 - 2012-04-08 10:53:30 UTC
I have been having the same problem but its been 2 days now since the character i am looking for was created and its still not showing up
Vircomore Amilupar
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#6 - 2012-04-09 14:57:52 UTC
You can use the following workaround if the new character is still not showing up and you want to get its name to another character:

(Will cost 2500isk)

1. On the new character, search for the old character.

2. Right-click, "Create Contact" - set a standing, and then check the box that says "Send Notification to Character"

3. Create the contact.

*BAM*

Now the old character will get an EVE Mail with the new character's name in it that can be right-clicked to do actions.
Xavier Baudin
Doomheim
#7 - 2012-04-09 21:22:19 UTC
I have the same issue with this character, but found a workaround.

See, if you want someone to contact your new character (being it an alt of a friend), do it the other way around.
Have the new character contact the old one.

I heard there are some problem with the database that is used for the search system (it's been revised with some new stuff), and I wanted to donate some money on this one. I couldn't do it because of this char not showing up in search, so I just made a contract with this one for my alt, and that worked just fine.

Meanwhile we just have to be patient for CCP to fix this issue.
Katarina Reid
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#8 - 2012-04-09 21:44:54 UTC
Send message from ur char to the new char through eve gate. Login in game and check ur sent mails now u have his name. Add contact.
CCP Sisyphus
C C P
C C P Alliance
#9 - 2012-04-17 20:13:16 UTC
Nura Taron wrote:
How long does it take a new character to show up on character searches?


The search should pickup new characters in 5 min now... If its not please tell me here!

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Joran Dravius
Doomheim
#10 - 2012-04-18 05:09:33 UTC
CCP Sisyphus wrote:
Nura Taron wrote:
How long does it take a new character to show up on character searches?


The search should pickup new characters in 5 min now... If its not please tell me here!

It definitely isn't. I'm the OP. I don't have the character in question anymore, but both alts I made took 2 to 3 days to show up on searches.
Liam Mirren
#11 - 2012-04-18 05:43:45 UTC
CCP Sisyphus wrote:
Nura Taron wrote:
How long does it take a new character to show up on character searches?


The search should pickup new characters in 5 min now... If its not please tell me here!


Yesterday it was certainly more, after 30 mins I simply sent a mail from that char to then add him to friend list.

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CCP Sisyphus
C C P
C C P Alliance
#12 - 2012-04-19 11:56:02 UTC
Right, I'll take another look at this on Friday

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CCP Sisyphus
C C P
C C P Alliance
#13 - 2012-04-20 09:54:48 UTC
Ok, very confusing.

I made a new character on a normal account - it was indexed in about 1 minute and I was able to search it from a number of different accounts. Also able to autolink in chat and assign contracts to the new character...

What are you doing that i'm not?

Steps -
account A - make new character (a), enter game.
account B - login, search for character a on "any" search.
keep trying every 10 seconds. find correct result after about 1 minute.

all this was on tq...

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Liam Mirren
#14 - 2012-04-20 10:30:07 UTC
create buddy account
create character
log out character due to officially being trial
log in main account and try to find character on new account to send the isk for a Plex.


I didn't work right away so I gave it a minute or two, still didn't work so I went afk. Came back a while later, still nothing so then I gave up, logged in new char and sent a mail to main.

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DODGE CITY
Keep it Hard
#15 - 2012-04-20 11:39:51 UTC
ii had a issue several weeks ago similar to this i created a alt to look at market prices in different region i went through the long character creation process and when i submitted the new character and was entering the game the client farted and died so i submitted a petition and received the generic answer as usual with petitions that are not read completely before they answer so i went through the process again creating the new alt and the process worked .so i re-log and searched for my alt name to send the list of items i needed prices on and could not locate him through search so i had to re-log and send myself a mail i clicked my alts name after receiving the mail and it show all the info about him . it has to be a intermittent bug that happens when there is alot of players in game

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