I couldn't tell you, but it's not the word "buy". I saw a Federal Corvette named "WHY DID I BUY THIS" at a station a while back.
I got censored!
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I couldn't tell you, but it's not the word "buy". I saw a Federal Corvette named "WHY DID I BUY THIS" at a station a while back.
Yowie!
Good thing Portland ME, or Portland OR aren't as encased in cement over such things.
I couldn't use this handle ("Manticore") which I've been using for decades in gaming because there is some NPC faction with the name (or some such). I wanted it to be my Cmdr name but it's restricted/protected (whatever) so I reverted to my alternate gaming handle "Pingmonster".
As for ships: I think FD should add "Shippy McShipface" to the filter blacklists..........
It WAS censored, when they introduced ship naming.
Are we sure it's not because of the pixel length of the name instead of censoring?
A lot of censurable stuff only has four letters...
I have ships named Sidney, Edsel, and Gladys.
I should have been censored long ago.
My first thought was that it might be "buy", as a pre-emptive strike against in-game advertising for gold farmers, but Lucifera's post says that ain't so. I then looked up "ebu" on Urban Dictionary and kind of wish I hadn't. I don't know if that's why it's being blocked, but I can see no other possible reason unless it's a bug in the filter.
I'd love to get a look at the actual filter that FD are applying. It must read like the index to Roger's Profanisaurus.
When I put together a smuggling ship, I wanted to name it so it wouldn't stand out, and really would seem harmless.
So I went with "Totally Unsuspicious", which would have worked marvelously effective and unsuspicious I'm sure, but it got censored and the "T****** ***********S" really stands out and I get picked by the police all the time.
So I went with "Totally Unsuspicious", which would have worked marvelously effective and unsuspicious I'm sure, but it got censored and the "T****** ***********S" really stands out and I get picked by the police all the time.
Took me a few moments to figure out the problem with that one, too.When I put together a smuggling ship, I wanted to name it so it wouldn't stand out, and really would seem harmless.
So I went with "Totally Unsuspicious", which would have worked marvelously effective and unsuspicious I'm sure, but it got censored and the "T****** ***********S" really stands out and I get picked by the police all the time.
FD really need to get their act together on this, and either edit the filter dictionary to be more sensible or program in some context. If the in-game filter was let loose on this forum -- or indeed any forum -- half of the words would disappear. On-demand whitelisting can't be their long-term strategy, surely? I'm tempted to start naming my ships to deliberately trip the filter, then flood Support with complaints. But that would be unfair on the Support guys who almost certainly don't set policy.
I've worked support jobs, so I can sympathize with not wanting to artificially inflate their workload, but surely they have performance metrics and analysis of the issues they get; that might actually be a legitimate way to push the issue to higher attention, assuming enough people get in on it to generate a big enough blip.
Can't say for sure but "UV-41M" is acceptable whereas "SV-41M" is apparently verboten.... even though the only differences are the "S" and the "M", which remain visible.
Anyway, the "V-41" part of the Ident will, presumably, be the same size in both cases.
PEGI - Parents Expecting Government Intervention
It's a sure sign of the times we live in - it's too much trouble to produce children, raise children AND assume responsibility for doing so.
It's a sure sign of the times we live in - it's too much trouble to produce children, raise children AND assume responsibility for doing so.
SV-41M is clearly leet speek for the aim bot SV_AIM.
Trying to promote hacking, ingame. I would have expected better from you, Stealthie.
Or joo-peeter.. I said
I saw one ship censored i messaged him asking what it was, even he was suprised it was filtered. If remember right it was just his wifes name who had passed
Makes me wonder if my ship names are censored
Makes me wonder if my ship names are censored