Sweet! The "Invalid Name" bug has returned!!
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Darkonne,
Posted on: 2011-10-19 10:38 in Mission Architect
Yea, "Phantom" in name or .critter file is now invalid for me. Joy!
So the filter is actually getting worse?
Why don't they just admit they want us to stop writing arcs?
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"And I say now these kittens, they do not get trained/As we did in the days when Victoria reigned!" -- T. S. Eliot, "Gus, the Theatre Cat"
Sadly that is the message they are sending.
Bugs like this are usually placed on the bottom of the fix pile, especially now that freedumb has launched and the only thing they really care about is the bugs that effect them getting money.
The annoying thing about this bug is it corrupts the file completely and the only fix is to completely remake the character. Annoying and tedious. And half the names becoming "invalid" are names I have or have seen used on characters. Why the filter? Is the name "Phantom" reallllly copyright protected?
Lately when I edit arcs I find myself sounding like Chris Berman on Monday Night Countdown... "Come on, man!"
Bugs are getting ridiculous.
I got hit on a variant of Phantom. I was using a stock critter and renamed it Phantasmal Thorn Vine. Phantasmal was invalid 
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It's not just MA. I tried rerolling one of my characters the other day from a Dark/Dark corrupter to a Dark/Dark blaster. It wouldnt allow me to have the name, even though I've had this toon for quite a while.
"Customer Service" refused to do anything. Pretty much told me I'm SOL.
Needless to say, I'm pretty POed at losing the name, and their general attitude.
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I understand names got borked a bit back during the Marvel suit (oh Bastion how I miss thee) but names do not fall under copyright, only likeness. Having a character named Phantom, for example, is not an infringement on the Phantom of the Opera, or the Phantom comic character. Outside of the agreement with marvel (which took play over 5 years ago) I see no need to suddenly "filter" character names.
But the bug (last time and this time) seems to be just that - a bug. I re-rolled half my toons after the last bug and all of them are now valid in AE again - with the same friggin' name. And it's not just a name issue - it bugs the entire file. You can't change the name to ANYTHING to fix the "invalid name". You have to delete and re-roll. It's a corruption issue of some kind.
I'm just growing tired of the slow response to AE bugs and the fact that AE bugs keep coming up for no apparent reason...
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
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Current Blog Post: "Why I am an Atheist..."
"And I say now these kittens, they do not get trained/As we did in the days when Victoria reigned!" -- T. S. Eliot, "Gus, the Theatre Cat"
Ugh. I spent an hour trying to rename one of my custom bosses because including the word "Warlord" was beyond the pale.
I really want to like the MA system, but it sure seems like the devs don't.
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I figure if people can consistently use Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" as an inspirational quotation source, I can purposely misuse this quote to prove a point. Also, the quotes are really just a lead up to the last one, meant to compare Shatner to great poets.
Thanks for pointing it out in a very unrelated to topic kind of way though.
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You may want to try changing the file name. Yes, for some weird reason it checks that.
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Ugh. I spent an hour trying to rename one of my custom bosses because including the word "Warlord" was beyond the pale.
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Sadly that is the message they are sending.
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Not worth the hours I'd spend only to log in and have it all borked the next day. Which is a shame, I spent many a month doing nothing but writing arcs when it first came out.
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Tested an arc last night and it ran great. Log on today after the patch and three of my characters now are "invalid" because they have "invalid names".
I love when a patch re-creates bugs that have supposedly been fixed.
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