Can't even DELETE a custom character...

So I run a toon through my AE arc so I can get a few badges for her (29973 “The Running of the Bulls” thankyouforasking).

I discover a "corrupted critter" in one of the missions (looks like a hydra-man). I go into the AE mission editor to see the trouble. It has tagged one of the custom critters in my mission with ProfanityCopyrightDetected. The critter name is “Apocalypse Cow.”

Of course, there has been much Thunder and Fury expended here on the boards about the overzealous filters. Yes, “Apocalypse” is a planet in DC Comics, but it's stupid to filter such a common English word, bla bla bla.

I thought I could get around it by making the lower-case “L” into an upper-case “I”, or spelling it with an “I” rather than a “Y”, or something. Nothing I tried worked. I thought, “wow – they thought of everything,” but then I tried “Coppola Cow” (as in Francis Ford Coppola, director of the film Apocalypse Now).

Nope.

Humm. What about just “Cow”?

Nope.

Hummm... something in the character description...? I deleted the entire description and named the character “fred.”

Nope.

How about the name “hhhhh”?

Nope.

NOTHING will get the AE editor to accept ANY name for this custom critter. AND I cannot see how to just delete it.

I have already filed a petition about the word “Apocalypse” being filtered. But NOW the game won't even allow me to file a different petition about this undeleteable, nothing-is-acceptable bug.

Any ideas?

FYI, Apocalypse Cow was a villain from The Tick's live action show. The DC planet is actually spelled "Apokolips."

There IS an X-Men villain simply named "Apocalypse," though, and that's likely why it's being blocked... similarly to why people have been unable to use the word "gambit" in descriptions since the launch of the AE system.

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Originally Posted by Nethergoat it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!

Go into the "Custom Critters" folder and delete the file with the same name as that character.


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Does anything else in the custom's description have Apocalypse in it, ie the enemy group name or the save file name?

Yes, the filter will flag "profanity" in file names. Yes, it's stupid.

Also, if you want to actually delete a critter, you must also remove said critter from any arc they appear in and any custom group they belong to. If you're just trying to remove the critter from the arc it's best to remove them from the custom group as well, as those guys have a pesky tendency to think "I'm supposed to be in this arc" even if they're actually not.

I have a simliar problem. I had a NPC called Raven that is now invalid. Hard to get a more common name then Raven, but anyway.

I managed to fix it on one of my local copies, after hours of pulling my hair out! Every time I changed the details it kept coming back and I ended up with more and more copies of the same character in the same group....

In the end I somehow managed to fix my local copy of the group.

But how do I fix it on my published story, as every time I go to delete references to Raven in the arc it still says the group is invalid as it still has Raven in it. I assume this is because the publish copy of the group hasn't been fixed, but how do you overwrite that copy without fixing the arc first? Catch 22.

I don't want to unpublish my arc as then I'll lose all the votes? Won't I?