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Can someone explain to me, why I'm guilty of using profane language when putting the following into a dialog:
A suggestion: It would be nice, if the word/phrase in question would be highlighted, so the author does not have to scratch her head that hard
Regards,
Rachel
I'm not a native speaker, but it appears pretty harmless to me. It's not the reference to Voyager, I tried to delete it, and it still isn't kosher.[Rank], it's good to see some Starfleet personnel down here after all. The colony needs some of that future technology from the Voyager to defend itself against the Borg.
A suggestion: It would be nice, if the word/phrase in question would be highlighted, so the author does not have to scratch her head that hard
Regards,
Rachel
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I read what you wrote and while the grammar is a little awkward, (far from the worst I have read in official game missions) there is nothing wrong about what you wrote. Since you can reedit it I suggest cutting it into fragments in Notepad or Word and adding it one fragment at a time till it nails you for profanity. That should give you a clue as to which word or word combination the Foundry does not like.
I can assure you it does not.
Has anyone every noticed how the phrase "i s n ' t ___ i t" gets filtered out in game for referring to the female upper chest anatomy?
This is ridiculous, Cryptic. Come on, the EULA clearly states that you're not responsible for the text that comes up in game. Sort it out please.
"d e f e n d ___ i t s e l f ___ a g a i n s t ___ t h e ___ B o r g"
Bloody crazy, isn't it?
Come on, Cryptic. Sort it out. Your profanity filter is the most poorly designed I've ever came across in a game. It's ruining people's Foundry missions!
This is ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous!!!
:eek:
Edit: Even changing the word "assume" to "presume" (which is totally out of character for this NPC I've created - too posh imo) hasn't removed the profanity message. I've gone through the whole mission and can't find what the problem might be.
This is really disappointing. It's censorship literally gone mad.
"Assume" can come up as a slang term for the bum
"defend itself against the borg" can come up as an insulting term for homosexuals
It's a family game and both Cryptic and CBS are probably erring on the side of caution.
That said, censorship is silly - especially when it is censoring clean text.
While i can understand the importance of keeping this clean given any child can pick up the game and play it, there is a point where the restrictions begin bordering lunacy.
This isnt true. I was just playing a mission "Worst of All Worlds" and in it, my science officer noted that scanners could locate the "Reliant, Constitution and Enterprise" in the area
Awesome mission as well btw, kudos to Captain Revo
And what about "Assault", "Assimilate"....?
Assassination is like saying a naughty word twice....
What are we 12? The game is T for Teen for goodness sake! Have you ever gone to a public school in America? Have you ever spoken to a 16 year old?
Please, any teen who doesn't know and embrace these words is likely so sheltered they won't fit into society anyway, kinda like that odd character Al Franken played on SNL, Stuart Smalley the bright and cheerful self-help guy who had issues coming to terms with the darker parts of reality.
But, I digress. I couldn't name my robotic ninja guy In Champions Arc L.I.T.E. for reasons that were not immediately apparent.
The filter needs some work.
Assault is banned on Black OPS as a Class Name, for profanity
Even though the section the rifle is listed under is called "Assault Rifles"
It's silly, I agree.
I saw it immediately...:p:o
Well my head was in "awesome name mode" not my usual "pervert mode".
John Hancock, John Hancock, John Hancock. <<--Just had to get it out of my system.
The very first thing naughty people try to do is to circumvent the profanity filter. Clearly,
"T I T" or "isnT IT" are attempts to circumvent the profanity filter.
I believe a possible solution is to add reserve words as acceptable to the filter.
For example,
"Isn't it" and "isn't it" would be allowed. "isnt it" is bad spelling, so nice dice. We could also include "assassinate", "Assassinate", "Assume," and "assume."
Then all we would need is community/developer interaction to maintain the list. In game reference would be awesome, but that is a lot of work for the devs.
We could help the devs by making a list of ridiculous phrases we need for missions getting profanity flagged, and that could start us on the right track.
I think there should be a brief text-review by a dev before a mission goes "live", that way context can be taken into account. It will slow down mission publication, but it will also allow for better missions. Lets face it, if your first review is from a dev, you're probably going to give their feedback a bit more weight than johnny-whats-his-face.
For example, I recently published a KDF mission where you call a Cardassian Captains bluff, I wanted that Cardassian to get angry and say "Da___mn you!" and then concede defeat, something we've seen time and again in episode after episode, swearing in contempt and frustration, but noo..
Seriously Cryptic, pull the PRUDE out of your backsides. You are taking it to ridiculous levels.
Perhaps a similar approach can be done for storytelling purposes.
I for one, as a reviewer, would not in any way flag a UGC mission due to a word used to show emotion in storytelling, like the example above of "dam+n" or "H-e - double hockeysticks." or"frak" being used. as long as its done so in a way thats appropriate to the events of the story.
Now having "frak off" be a responce to an admiral's hail for a mission instead of "continue" i would flag. I would laugh first, but flag it.
Far better solution is just to ban the actual words and allow users to report the mission for attempts to get around the filter. A Cryptic employee then reviews it, just like they would any other petition.
it might help if you spell Targ correctly. LOL, sry.
yeah, the filter is a little too sensitive.