test content
  • Games
  • Social
  • Arc News
  • Support
  • Zen
What is the Arc Client?
Install Arc
Forums > Home› The Foundry for Star Trek Online› The Foundry for Star Trek Online - Discussion & Feedback

Question relating to profanity

gigaman123gigaman123 Member Posts: 76 Arc User
edited May 2015 in The Foundry for Star Trek Online - Discussion & Feedback
I know we can't use most of the profanity, after all STO needs to be fairly clean.

However is it all right if we use "Damn" , "Hell" and "Son of a *****"? All this was used in Star Trek Episodes. "Son of a *****" was used in Enterprise.

Is this good as long as its not very common in dialogue?
Veteran of STO, had it for 5 years. Unfortunately, my Original account is gone.

"Make it so" - Captain Picard

Build I am working for my Federation, Klingon, and Romulans.
Post edited by gigaman123 on

Comments

  • johnnysnowballjohnnysnowball Member Posts: 399 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    there is a small box bottom left of the Foundry interface. Anything you add that is not allowed will display a 'dialogue contains profanity' warning.

    Riker also used 'Bast**ds' in a movie but you still cant use it here.

    Best to stick with 'Darn', 'Blast' and just 'You son of a-' rather than use anything a child shouldn't see.
    This game can be played by anyone of any age.
  • gigaman123gigaman123 Member Posts: 76 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Well, in an STO mission, they did use "Damn"
    Veteran of STO, had it for 5 years. Unfortunately, my Original account is gone.

    "Make it so" - Captain Picard

    Build I am working for my Federation, Klingon, and Romulans.
  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    "Damn" isn't allowed, but "dammit" works fine.
    Save the Foundry!
    NJ9oXSO.png
    "Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
    -Thomas Marrone
  • ashkrik23ashkrik23 Member Posts: 10,809 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Putting such language in a mission is just tasteless.
    King of Lions rawr! Protect the wildlife of the world. Check out my foundry series Perfection and Scars of the Pride. arcgames.com/en/forums#/discussion/1138650/ashkrik23s-foundry-missions
    ashkrik_by_lindale_ff-d65zc3i.png
  • gigaman123gigaman123 Member Posts: 76 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    In an STO mission, I remember (forget the name of the species) saying "Damn you all" Or something along those lines.
    Veteran of STO, had it for 5 years. Unfortunately, my Original account is gone.

    "Make it so" - Captain Picard

    Build I am working for my Federation, Klingon, and Romulans.
  • arincdiarincdi Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    ashkrik23 wrote: »
    Putting such language in a mission is just tasteless.

    Why?

    I agree that it doesn't have much place in Star Trek, but that's purely because I'm a stickler for canon, and we have actual reason to believe that profanity has been eliminated, per Star Trek IV ("The use of language has oldened since our arrival, it is currently laced with, shall we say, 'more colorful metaphors. 'Double dumb TRIBBLE on you' and so forth.")

    Although, conversely, you could argue that it's made a comeback given it's use in the various 24th Century examples, as retro speech sometimes does.

    My best guess is that the Universal Translator probably filters out most profanity as a matter of context, since it's probably sophisticated enough to use tone and inflection as part of it's decisions in translating words, and reserves actual cursing for only the most appropriate moments.

    Which brings me to my point - there ARE appropriate moments for profanity. Adding profanity during those moments isn't "tasteless", it's an attempt to give more of a realistic feel to the right character at the right time.

    As for "what children should see", in the 21st Century, you'd be hard pressed to find a child of ten who doesn't regularly use the kind of language that would make his 1955 counterpart blush with shock - certainly not one using the internet. Claiming child censorship at this point is a little naive. The profanity filter that blurs out the words in chat should have no problem doing the same for Foundry dialog, so, IMHO, it should be the same simple opt-in/opt-out process.
  • gigaman123gigaman123 Member Posts: 76 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    I do plan on adding 'Mild profanity' to my foundry mission, Dark Places, but only at appropriate moments. The worst there will ever be is "damn", "dammit", and "hell" But even then, it'll be rare.
    Veteran of STO, had it for 5 years. Unfortunately, my Original account is gone.

    "Make it so" - Captain Picard

    Build I am working for my Federation, Klingon, and Romulans.
Sign In or Register to comment.