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Copyright/Profane question

Acroyear2

By Acroyear2,
Posted on: 2011-04-26 17:32 in Mission Architect

 

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Originally Posted by PoliceWoman View Post
I got a little OCD and tried to fix my arcs that have been invalidated tonight. Logically I really should wait until someone in Paragon Studios (whups!! pardon my profanity, I know Paragon is a bad word here) fixes it, but I just couldn't stand to leave the arcs sitting broken for that long.
Have you filed a bug report with those arc numbers? I'm told that is what the GMs are looking for.

They want arc numbers, which I can't give them, because all of my projects affected by this were not yet published, and I can't GET them published because of this problem.

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Have you filed a bug report with those arc numbers? I'm told that is what the GMs are looking for.

They want arc numbers, which I can't give them, because all of my projects affected by this were not yet published, and I can't GET them published because of this problem.
That's a good suggestion. I kind of think they know about this problem, but I went ahead and submitted a bug report in hopes that will help increase visibility of this problem.

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I went ahead and checked my arcs and only one out of my seven was affected. The bad news is it was my newest one, which annoys me to no end.

So I went ahead and filed a bug report on it as suggested above.

 

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Bug report filed with arc IDs and names as of 11:20 PM Eastern. Here's hoping there are some quick fixes. Since all this went down, my arc that's in the 5 star, Page 3 slot has gotten a 3 and a 4. Yeek!

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It just invalidated any names with Rularuu in it; the word Zanth (geez, I couldn't find that in my google search); and when I try to change a critter name (Rularru Assault Unit) to anything, even ABC123, it flagged it as invalid, so I just bugged it. Sigh, besides not improving AE, now its even more restrictive and takes forever to load...turning into a nightmare..
Yeah, that's because you're still saving the critter to the same named file on your local hard drive, and it'll flag the name as problematic even if it's just the filename that nobody ever sees.

That one gave me no end of fits.

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It didn't. I tried to save an AE critter called a "Delta Class Guardian" and it flagged the name as invalid. Moreover, it wouldn't let me use a different name for it after that.

Stuff like this is what made me stop making AE arcs months ago. Now I come back this morning with an idea and find that we're back to this stupidity.

Seriously, if this is the path we're on, delete the whole system already and consider it a failed experiment.



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Daemonchilde: ((fluffy thinks he's a tank))
Demon . Hunter: (( I think mine is >.>
Daemonchilde: ((Yours is no longer fluffy, it is Obliteron, destroyer of worlds))

 

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It didn't. I tried to save an AE critter called a "Delta Class Guardian" and it flagged the name as invalid. Moreover, it wouldn't let me use a different name for it after that.

Stuff like this is what made me stop making AE arcs months ago. Now I come back this morning with an idea and find that we're back to this stupidity.

Seriously, if this is the path we're on, delete the whole system already and consider it a failed experiment.



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File a bug report anyway. Complain there and they'll have to pay attention.

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File a bug report anyway. Complain there and they'll have to pay attention.
Sorry but I burned up enough energy fighting about AE stuff the last dozen times all my stuff was invalidated by changes. I'll let the rest of you play the bug report game.

Maybe I'll check it out in a few months and see if they ever fix it.

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Daemonchilde: ((fluffy thinks he's a tank))
Demon . Hunter: (( I think mine is >.>
Daemonchilde: ((Yours is no longer fluffy, it is Obliteron, destroyer of worlds))

 

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I'm with TDH, I'm not even touching my arcs until there's some official word that the latest craniorectal inversion has been fixed. I'm just out of energy for this.

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So I got a response to my bug report asking me to attach the arc file to the ticket so's they can take a gander at it, which I've done. Funny thing was now when I open up my list of arcs this one bears the dreaded orange "invalid arc" icon (still nothing flagged inside the edit window though).

I'm not so pessimistic that I'm about to go through my arc trying to second-guess everything - too much text! - so I'll wait and see what happens. Patiently. Some of you guys are just way too down for my taste...

 

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Just for reference:

Copyright List

I'd post the profane list too, but I doubt it'd be allowed on the forum (mostly the profanity, but it also incudes some of the RMT site names).

 

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My Arc is currently invalid because of the title, Crey's Nightmare, apparently it's finding the word Nightmar in there and I guess THAT is copyrighted. However I couldn't figure out what it is from my google and wikipedia searches. :P Bug report filed.


 

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My Arc is currently invalid because of the title, Crey's Nightmare, apparently it's finding the word Nightmar in there and I guess THAT is copyrighted. However I couldn't figure out what it is from my google and wikipedia searches. :P Bug report filed.
I'm guessing it's supposed to be Nightmare

Probably Nightmar in the filter to pick up those people who try to be all leetspeak and use Nightmar3..or it really is just a typo.

 

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So the prob with my arc was I used the word 'disaster' in it - strange thing to flag if you ask me unless there's some obscure character I don't know about; easy enough change.

There was also a strange prob with a costume somewhere, so I opened them all up, didn't see a thing, saved the arc and it's working now. Very bizarre bug!

Big thanks to the customer help people, you know who you are!

 

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....so the word 'bride' is on the copyright list. Seriously. Copyright shouldn't cover the freaking english language, I hope they fix this soon.
I'm guessing that is a list of invalid character names, which by extension would be invalid critter names in AE. Note that these are only invalid by themselves; both "Starfire" and "Sentinel" are on the list, and probably have been for a long time, but I can make a character named "Starfire Sentinel" and it's allowed.

The recent problems stem from things being flagged as invalid that are not on the list, possibly names that are unavailable due to being already in use in-game, and invalid names being flagged as invalid when not being used as names.

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Arc ID#431270 Until the End of the World

 

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This is so frustrating. It's unreal.

 

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I just wanted to express my displeasure as well. This recent change needs to be undone.

Here is my story. I have a character called White Queen.

Arc 402619

Now, I am aware of Emma Frost.

And, I know that she is referred to as the White Queen.

However, my CHESS arc has absolutely nothing to do with the X-Men or the Hellfire Club.

I have a character called the White King and I have a character called the Black King.

I have Rooks, Bishops, Knights and Pawns.

Heck, I even have a character called the Black Queen (btw wasn't Jean Grey known as this at one time?)

White Queen is, apparently, copyrighted.

So, even after talking to tech support, and urging them to consider context, I suppose that I am going to have to rename the White Queen in my Chess themed mission...

Current working title...

"The Queen formerly known as the White"

 

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As an update: We are currently working on a fix for this issue, sadly however I cannot give an ETA for implementation on live servers short of "Soon™".

Thanks all and apologies for any frustration this may be causing anyone.

Andy Belford
Community Manager
Paragon Studios

 

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COPYRIGHTED NAMES
These two words from the top of the filter file brought me close to posting a rant -- those of you who know intellectual property law will know why -- but I'll save that for another day. Suffice to say I do not take this filter seriously.

Anyway, much of Mission Architect's text is HTML encoded. So has anyone tried inserting empty HTML tag pairs into improperly filtered words to work around this improperly functioning filter?