I know secondaries not getting name benefit from primary's eqs is to encourage
secondaries to make their own gear and party. Cool.

Here's a scenario.. you're in a 9man eq party with your secondary and your
client crashes. You say "oh shit!" and launch your client. Your client,
being the modern thing it is, autologins with your primary character.

"You can't log in as your secondary character has gone link dead less than 600
seconds ago."

Oh! Right.. [login secondary instead]

"You can't log in as your primary character has gone link dead less than 600
seconds ago."

Huh? I haven't been on with my primary in hours.. days even??
Xyloid has been linkdead for 2min and 36s now.
Diolyx has been linkdead for 3min and 49s now.

When your primary fails to login because the secondary has been on recently..
it gets put linkdead at that moment in time. Now you can't login to either
account because the other has been on 'recently'..

The 9-man party then sits around and everyone waits until you get back after
10 minutes so you can get back on.. or boots you.. or quits because they don't
know what's going on.. ?

Can't the check be made before creating the player object or something so that
it doesn't force them linkdead on a failed check? I dunno.. but this situation
blows when it happens.. which is enough..