Or the entire world could stop pretending that rude words are in any way harmful.
Ship name censored - turn off
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I just think it makes everything feel like it's aimed at 15 year-olds.
15 to 49 is the target demographic for advertisers
This is silly.....allow us to turn the filter off.
I say this as a parent of a young child and I believe in the whole.."it takes a village..." BUT it's MY JOB as a parent to be aware of what he is doing on the pc and to monitor his activities on it (and elsewhere) not the rest of the worlds.
If my child plays this game and sees something he shouldn't that's my fault as a parent and the rest of the players that are old enough and mature enough shouldn't be penalized or curtailed.
I say this as a parent of a young child and I believe in the whole.."it takes a village..." BUT it's MY JOB as a parent to be aware of what he is doing on the pc and to monitor his activities on it (and elsewhere) not the rest of the worlds.
If my child plays this game and sees something he shouldn't that's my fault as a parent and the rest of the players that are old enough and mature enough shouldn't be penalized or curtailed.
Yes, that's what I was getting at.
Funny related story... DNA was trying to come up with a funny and unfortunate name for the character Slartibartfast, and racked his brains for hours trying to come up with something funny and unfortunate, but also clean, until he had an idea:
Invent the FILTHIEST funny and unfortunate name he could, then clean it up.
Slartibartfast's original name is unprintable here.
I like the filter, makes people think of inventive ways to get around it.
Actually, that story is maybe a month old, but yeah. The guy's name means Undertaker in German.
Ummm, why?
It would be nice to be able to carry p***engers again.
Filters don't stop profanity, they encourage it more. It's a challenge to some to show they pulled one over on the authority. The only censor we should have had in the game at the beginning was a limitation on the types of characters allowed in player names, i.e., only alpha characters, no numerals or symbols.
That has nothing to do with "political correctness", but with money.
If you want to sell your game in germany, you can't display the swastika.
It's illegal, and will get the game blacklisted, as simple as that.
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Being german, i can tell you that it doesn't...unless it's some very local term i have never heard about.
The standard work on the german language is a book called "Der Duden", a search for the word Grabher returns a -no result-.
If they've used the same one as on the forums, it's going to be interesting. That filter is paranoid to the point of ludicrous. It filters parts of words with a zeal that massacres perfectly inoffensive ones. For example if one attempts to use the present participle of 'to freak out" you get "g out" because obviously the first seven letters of that word are a substitute word for profanity. And a word describing a minor gripe gets converted to "le" because of course the sequence november india golf golf is an attempt to evade the filter on a particularly disgusting racial epithet even when it just happens to begin a completely different word with no such connotations. Meanwhile plenty of words that genuinely ARE euphemisms for profanity (and, it could be argued, when used as such ARE profanity) are not filtered.
And yes it's real. I actually typed the real non-offensive words in this post and let the swear filter have at them. If that's the one they are using on ship names it will have you beating your head on your desk if you try to be even moderately witty, let alone risque.
And yes it's real. I actually typed the real non-offensive words in this post and let the swear filter have at them. If that's the one they are using on ship names it will have you beating your head on your desk if you try to be even moderately witty, let alone risque.
I'm well aware of the sensitivity surrounding the image of the hakenkreuz, having spent a good few years in Germany and having been married to a German woman for 26 years...But purely as a historical reference, namely that suggested by the content of the game and being able to display the same image when playing online, even in an appropriate context, defeats the object of the exercise...
Previous versions of the game sold just as well in Germany as anywhere else considering how many German players I find online playing IL2, Cliffs of Dover... which had no such restriction on it's visual content... as far as I'm aware...
This over zealous censorship still stems from a flawed ideal of political correctness... the truth is, you can't learn from history if you hide or deliberately omit the parts of it you don't find palatable.
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I think you saw what you wanted to see there, its PEGI7 (That's SEVEN not seventeen)
http://www.pegi.info/en/index/global_id/505/?searchString=48913
But it means drug references and fantasy violence according to their ESRB rating...
http://www.esrb.org/ratings/Synopsis.aspx?Certificate=33798&Title=Elite%3a+Dangerous
So I guess in Europe, referencing drugs and violence is fine for 7 year olds but heaven forbid someone uses a different word for 'front bottom' and the poor kid is going to turn into Father Jack.
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If this is the kind of issue that people are complaining about, then well done FDev.
Morally questionable issue like drugs and slaves are much bigger subjective political topics that FDev have decided to implement themselves, and are not 'obscene' in and of themselves. It's not the same as some immature player coming up with yet another creative way to insert swear words into the game.
How many ships do you see in the real world with obscene names? Zero? Well then why should it be any different with spaceships?
I think FDev are right to censor obscene names.
So, basically - tough luck OP. You'll have to get your kicks some other way.
Morally questionable issue like drugs and slaves are much bigger subjective political topics that FDev have decided to implement themselves, and are not 'obscene' in and of themselves. It's not the same as some immature player coming up with yet another creative way to insert swear words into the game.
How many ships do you see in the real world with obscene names? Zero? Well then why should it be any different with spaceships?
I think FDev are right to censor obscene names.
So, basically - tough luck OP. You'll have to get your kicks some other way.
Then parents should look what their childrens are doing. Especially what game and how they are playing it.
But i am 36 and i would like to turn it off for myself. I can turn it on for my daughter.
It may be simple password protected parental control for parents who are not able to control their childrens or do not trust them.
However, in a game with killing, slavery, violence, human-trading - i think a stupid name is not a big deal
I absolutely agree. Fire that bunch of ludicrous PEGI morons... unfortunately they wield a great deal of power and many people, parents included, believe their ramblings to contain some sort of truth. The only thing that works is parenting with care, reason and love.
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http://www.allthingsboat.com/boat-names/dirty-boat-names/
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Being able to toggle censorship on or off would be nice. Have it default to on and include a disclaimer upon deactivation and nobody can complain.
User-generated content won't affect their age ratings. Hence the little "online interactions not rated" disclaimer online games always have alongside their rating.
Among vessels owned by individuals rather than states or corporations? More than you might expect.
User-generated content won't affect their age ratings. Hence the little "online interactions not rated" disclaimer online games always have alongside their rating.
Among vessels owned by individuals rather than states or corporations? More than you might expect.