Thanks for the follow-ups. I didn't realize looking up things by name is so much more database-intensive than looking them up by id number.
I had thought that databases from live avoided using the same name for multiple items--I'm thinking of the Circlet of Shadows item that pre-nerf allowed an instant-cast invis spell, but post-nerf had a normal casting time... the post-nerf item's name was Circlet of Shadow (or vice versa, can't remember which), because they were leaving the original item in game and presumably didn't want to have a duplicate item name. Anyway, it's a moot point if identical names are, in fact, used.
Ease of writing quests was my main motivation for this suggestion... it would save an extra step of looking up the id number for everything when writing a quest, and would make checking quests for errors 1000x faster. But if it's not possible, it's not possible. Thanks for the replies. :P
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