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What ever happened to naming filters?

captaincelestialcaptaincelestial Member Posts: 1,927 Arc User
There used to be a time when you couldn't replicate major character names from Star Trek and other properties, like Star Trek. Or at least it was strongly discouraged.

Now a days that seems to be ignored.

There was a James Tiberius Kirk who sent me an invite to a fleet, so I was just going to /ignore it like I usually do with unsolicited fleet invites. Two names popped up with the same name.

Have the name filters been removed or was it something done 'creatively' to circumvent it, like First Name: James, Last Name: Tiberius Kirk?
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  • zasz#8071 zasz Member Posts: 193 Arc User
    There is no such thing as a name filter in this game. Ive seen female genitalia in a less medical way on ships and characters.
  • evilmark444evilmark444 Member Posts: 7,058 Arc User
    zarasz wrote: »
    There is no such thing as a name filter in this game.

    Really? I thought they added one a long time ago? Way back in the beta I know I saw a character in sector space named "Hitler Himself" flying the "USS Third Reich" but I haven't seen stuff like that in years. Usually when I see Canon names they are misspelled like "Kirrk" or "Entrprise"
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  • warpangelwarpangel Member Posts: 9,427 Arc User
    There certainly is (or at least has been) a name filter in the game, though I have not cared to extensively test what's on it.

    However, word filters are always subject to circumvention by humans who are inevitably smarter than they are.
  • xyquarzexyquarze Member Posts: 2,130 Arc User
    Major characters have been seen, but there are ways around a filter. I don't know whether they work on STO.

    I don't mind canon characters that much, but names in my opinion in very poor taste - well, I can be a snitch sometimes. Dunno what happens afterwards though.
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  • mneme0mneme0 Member Posts: 498 Arc User
    edited June 2019
    [accidental double post]
  • mneme0mneme0 Member Posts: 498 Arc User
    mneme0 wrote: »
    There is a filter, and it is incompetent. I once tried to make a ship called the Spock of Vulcan and Spock was disallowed. Recently I saw something like Spock Is Dead LOL on a player ship. I don't get it. I've been on forums where "assassination" got censored due to the forum censoring "TRIBBLE" (the butt part).

  • tousseautousseau Member Posts: 1,484 Arc User
    Apparently Asgard is on that list... I have tried multiple times to name one of my ships after this fabled realm, to no avail...
  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 59,174 Community Moderator
    Other than Discovery, the filter blocks names of Hero ships like Enterprise and Voyager. Had a friend who wanted to name his ship Titan, but that was blocked. Eventually he settled on Leviathan. And it also blocks names of main characters like Spock, and surprisingly Saavik. However people find creative ways around it by either misspelling it or adding on.
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