Minor bug / issue with automatic name

Cocolori

Cocolori
Just a note to the Frontier team that one of the names the game generates is flagged up as unsuitable when you try to sell them in franchise mode. I'm assuming some update to the profanity filter has inadvertently caused it. The name was for a timber wolf and was 'Vlorala'.

Got to say the profanity filter might be dialled up a bit high - took me a while to work out that it was probably the middle of the word which is an issue and it feels a little puritanical given it is the biological and medical description of anything to do with the mouth...

More importantly it's a small annoyance cos I had to send it back to the habitat and rename it just to sell it on the market.
 

LN

LN
Cocolori said:
Just a note to the Frontier team that one of the names the game generates is flagged up as unsuitable when you try to sell them in franchise mode. I'm assuming some update to the profanity filter has inadvertently caused it. The name was for a timber wolf and was 'Vlorala'.

Got to say the profanity filter might be dialled up a bit high - took me a while to work out that it was probably the middle of the word which is an issue and it feels a little puritanical given it is the biological and medical description of anything to do with the mouth...

More importantly it's a small annoyance cos I had to send it back to the habitat and rename it just to sell it on the market.
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Exactly, only the use of the word oral can never be found offensive or disturbing. As long as it isn't followed up with other "disturbing" words, it's just a medical term of "something to do with the mouth". Like, "these medicins need to be taken orally". Even the forum doesn't think oral is offensive, so why does the game?

This filter needs fixing IMO.
 

Cocolori

Cocolori
LN said:
Exactly, only the use of the word oral can never be found offensive or disturbing. As long as it isn't followed up with other "disturbing" words, it's just a medical term of "something to do with the mouth". Like, "these medicins need to be taken orally". Even the forum doesn't think oral is offensive, so why does the game?

This filter needs fixing IMO.
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I'm guessing that Frontier may be using a commercially available product for this rather than developing their own profanity filter and they may not have much control. I do find it mildly amusing how ridiculous some of these profanity filters are because humans, particular people determined to be offensive, aren't going to be stopped by a filter. If we look on the positive side you could say it creates evolutionary-like selection pressure for exciting new profane words to emerge!
 

Jileha

J
On the other hand, I have seen some really explicit animal names by some really disturbed (and/or extremely immature) people in the market. These filters focus on relatively harmless words but miss a lot of nasty stuff.
 
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