Copyright/Profane question

How many weeks has this been broken now..? In seven years I do not know that I have ever been as disappointed in this game as I am over this..

Remember this part of the Kotaku 7 Year Celebration image..



Mayhap we need to amend a new entry regarding how many of the 375,000+ Player Created Missions ARE BROKEN..

Anyway, after much chagrin and resignation, I have repaired a number of mine that had become broken after this. I still, however, refuse to repair/rename any of the ones broken as a result of "Paragon" where Paragon City is an intrinsic and integral part of the arc..

I also compiled my list of words I encountered which I had to adjust/rename ;

Access
The Manipulator
Nightmares
Abyssmal
Abomination Purist
Author
Shiva
Paragon
Longbow

All in all, it's not a lot of words. It was, however, an effort beyond measure to scour every entry in every arc to pin down the 'invalid' entries. It was also an affront to have to do this at all for words which should not be inviolate in the first place..

On a positive note, although it may have waivered over this, I do still have faith in our entire Paragon Studios Team and remain hopeful that a resolution is in progress and we may resume playing/publishing without fear of overzealous filters very soon.

I opened up a problem and we started working through it; but the issue that within MA that I cannot change a name from a profane name to another is still an issue. So basically, I have to save the costume, create a new character with an acceptable name, assign all of the same powers, and then select that new toon as the critter in the story.

I submitted a ticket just to help log the problem with the arc. The response was that I should go through and change all the "offending" words. Thanks so much....very helpful.


WN

Hey everyone,

The authmerge earlier this week put in an update to the profanity filter for Architect and fixed things like Paragon being blocked. We're still aware that there are some issues regarding words still being blocked. There will be another pass over the profanity filter for these other exceptions and another update will be rolled out afterwards.

If there are more very common words that you're still finding blocked, please post them below. Thanks!

As long as the filter's being tweaked, is Regent Korol still blocked(from the Regent part)?

That used to drive me nuts. And shouldn't have been anyway, since Regent is
a legitimate word even when used by itself.

Thanks for the update Dr. A ! Reassuring to know this is being worked on.

Still encountering problems with 'Paragon' and 'Longbow' though..

"Paragon" is still a problem for my arcs with the word Paragon in the title and my character The Paragon Bomb, an homage to over-the-top 80s pro-wrestling.

I also have various villain NPCs who have the villain group "5th Column" who are being flagged.

There's lastly an armored villain NPC of mine named "Zealot" who's being flagged. He can be renamed and redesigned easily (that arc needs some work, anyway), but what about the other stuff?

Thanks!

As of right now, I still can't use the word Scorpion in a enemy group name or as a boss name.

Which means I can't have Black Scorpion in my missions. Because of his name....

Can't use 'Paragon' for a boss name because it contains the word 'Aragon'

Can't use 'Regent Korol' still because of the word 'Regent'

Can't name the Cyclops EBs 'Cyclops' because that word isn't allowed.

Still can't have the AV 'Shadow Spider' because it doesn't like the word 'Spider'

I'd guess that the changes that you think are live aren't really live. Or else those changes didn't do what you thought they did.

Add the word "Psyche" to the list of words that got nerfed.

In other words, you cannot use the in-game character "Sister Psyche".

Was there any intelligence put into this or did some moron with a diploma mill degree simply say "Add these to the ban list"?

I can't use the word "Freakshow" as an enemy group name. I was attempting to make an ally NPC's group name be "Mainland Freakshow" to differentiate him from the whole bunch of Rogue Isles Freakshow enemies in the mission, but the editor won't let me. It will let me use "Freakso" but as soon as I add the last S in the word, it throws up an error.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

I discovered that the word "catgirl" is apparently considered bad.

I still find that *****, *************** and **** are blocked.





I kid, I kid. Thanks for the update DA.

Can't use the word 'Avengers'.

Now, I know that the Marvel team is called this, but in context to supergroup names we use in THIS game (i.e, Paragon Avengers, Rhode Island Avengers, etc.), we can't use that name in context in AE, or use the term in a sentence like, "...that team acted like civic avengers against those street-spawned Hellions" (ok, it sounds corny,...give me a break; I'm still on first cup of coffee...), but you get the hint.

The word/term 'Avengers'/avenger has context and use beyond the Marvel single-word copyright, ergo, this really shoudn't be blocked.

Both of my arcs are still broken, and no, I'm not sifting through them to find the problem words. For one thing, the editor has become insanely laggy, even at 9 am in a nearly empty zone. For another, I'm sick of stuff getting broken and AE getting no attention unless there's another PLing exploit to fix. Oh yes, if there was an exploit to fix I'm sure it would have been fixed by now. I've tried to help in the past. I've spent two years trying to help. I've made suggestion after suggestion for improving AE, made post after post of stuff that needed to be fixed, and it's mostly been ignored, so fix it yourselves. I'm done.

It's pretty obvious AE will never be a priority of any kind, because what it represents is no longer a priority. The devs no longer care about the subset of the community that loved this game for the concepts and customizability and storylines, unless it's to sell them another booster pack. It's all about the min-maxers who don't care that their world has all the depth of a puddle, as long as they get to blow **** up in cool new ways. I guess it's a good thing I'm also a min-maxer, huh?

I'm currently having major issue with 'Statesman' and any variation therein... I have two custom characters (both with Statesman from 1934 and 1941 respectively) and both (along with Enemy Group, Ally Group and even text entries for clues etc) continually register as violating the filter.

Any change to the copyright/profanity filter would be welcome in regard to such obvious wordings, as the power to block or even delete arcs that would blatantly violate copyright is in the hands of the devs here, not ours. The serious writers here wish to respect the canon and work with it or even just use language referencing it. I think it would be extremely reasonable to grant this request.


S.

AE DOOOOOOOM!

There, thread over.