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Weird & dumb question

A topic by upsidedownwindow created Apr 12, 2020 Views: 975 Replies: 4
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I got lazy and didn't want to type out "Raphael", so I shortened it to "Raph" as my character's name, only to get a "Don't. Just, don't." message.
I decided to goof around with the mechanic, and found lots of different things it wouldn't let me use as a name.
As far as I could tell, nothing sexual, and most body-parts were a no. It also refused most of the 2 letter suggestions I made, but allowed some. It refused most 3 letter suggestions I made, but allowed some. It refused some four letter suggestions, but accepted most.

I'm just curious as to why it works this way, and why you implemented it?

(This is probably something you'd never thought anyone would bring up lol)

I'm not the dev so I can't be certain, but it's possible that Raph is one of the names reserved for an upcoming character. I know not all characters in development are in the current build.

I thought that too, but then I tried naming my character both "Rohan" and "Anthony" and it allowed both, so I assume that isn't the reason it doesn't allow "Raph".

On another note, not allowing us to pick names of already existing characters would be a smart mechanic to implement (in my opinion).

Developer

So, I was upset at a friend that kept playing with silly names. So I downloaded a curse words list from google and asked the game to check if nothing was corresponding before accepting the player's input. As for why Raph doesn't type in... That's a good question ! I might get rid of the profanity filter altogether as it's not super reliable.

Haha, I knew there had to be some type of story involved XD