I have seen it reported on a few forums that countless amounts of people are having problems registering there nickname on the veterans program.
I have tried loads of times with different variations to no avail.
I contacted EA support and they advised the following.
If you are not able to reserve a nickname or are getting errors such as 'The screen name you have entered already exists in our database' and/or 'Please correct the error and try again', there are a number of steps you can take to improve your chances of reserving a nickname.
Make sure your nickname does not exceed 14 characters as this is the limit for the length of nicknames in Battlefield 2142. Do not include your clan tag in your reserved name (you can add this to your nickname once you are in the game) as this may push your nickname over the character limit.
If the web site is receiving high traffic, you may want to try again at a later time to ensure your request goes through.
If you have tried your nickname at different times without success, your nickname may have already been reserved by another character. You can reserve a different nickname and you will still receive your Veteran Status even if you nickname does not match your Battlefield 2 nickname.
Unfortunately, Support staff can not alter or modify Battlefield 2142 soldier names, so please make sure that the name you reserve is the name you wish to use.
Please, let us know if you have any more questions or troubles.
Answers to most questions may be found at http://support.ea.com/.
In the end the only thing that would work was to change the nickname I wanted in 2142 from the 'ESMF' nickname I had in BF2 to 'ESMF-II'.
So it seems that although alot of people are not having any issues there are loads more that could get veteran status but just slightly tweaking there old BF2 name for use in 2142.
Hope this helps, please dont flame me if it doesn't......;-)
I have tried loads of times with different variations to no avail.
I contacted EA support and they advised the following.
If you are not able to reserve a nickname or are getting errors such as 'The screen name you have entered already exists in our database' and/or 'Please correct the error and try again', there are a number of steps you can take to improve your chances of reserving a nickname.
Make sure your nickname does not exceed 14 characters as this is the limit for the length of nicknames in Battlefield 2142. Do not include your clan tag in your reserved name (you can add this to your nickname once you are in the game) as this may push your nickname over the character limit.
If the web site is receiving high traffic, you may want to try again at a later time to ensure your request goes through.
If you have tried your nickname at different times without success, your nickname may have already been reserved by another character. You can reserve a different nickname and you will still receive your Veteran Status even if you nickname does not match your Battlefield 2 nickname.
Unfortunately, Support staff can not alter or modify Battlefield 2142 soldier names, so please make sure that the name you reserve is the name you wish to use.
Please, let us know if you have any more questions or troubles.
Answers to most questions may be found at http://support.ea.com/.
In the end the only thing that would work was to change the nickname I wanted in 2142 from the 'ESMF' nickname I had in BF2 to 'ESMF-II'.
So it seems that although alot of people are not having any issues there are loads more that could get veteran status but just slightly tweaking there old BF2 name for use in 2142.
Hope this helps, please dont flame me if it doesn't......;-)
Last edited by j3ster (2006-08-24 14:43:05)