I give account number because the name came some time after.
And every player get a brand new account id rather than choosing one for a logical reason.
All account information is encrypted, I can never see what password you have for example, or rec-key and so on.
But there's loads of OT's out there that can see it, and I know a few that look in their own databases, and try out the account/password in other OT's and even rl tibia.
Lots of people get hacked that way.
Sure, if you're lazy enough to use same info in Legerian, and get hacked by it, maybe you deserve it, but you will turn to me and somehow it will become my fault in one way or another.
There's also a risk you quit the server just because you got hacked due to that you're lazy making new passwords and stuffs.
And it's twice as easy to hack people if the players may chose their own accounts.
Reason? simple.. if you think you know an account id, you could just try to create one, if it doesn't work, that means it's an existing account = half hacking job done.
So I'm sorry you cannot chose your own account, but I don't want to give people a tool to check if some account numbers exist or not, and I don't want to be a part of an rage-quit-rage because someone got hacked.
I hope you can forgive me for that =(