A little idea...

[Tenacity]

So recently I bought and have been playing Battlefield Bad Company 2, and some of the servers have an interesting feature to prevent swearing. Whenever any swear word is put into chat, the game strips you of all weapons and gadgets, leaving you defenseless until you die and respawn.

I was curious if such a thing might be implementable in Discovery, via FLhook. Of course, some minor swearing is used in an in-RP manner, but the major terms (which for obvious reasons I cant list here) could apply.

You use these words in local or system chat, FLhook identifies them, and temporarily places a drain on your powercore just like the drain seen when cruising - effectively giving you zero power for weapons and being unable to do anything other than fly around like a target. Once you die, the effect wears off.

The system could also be applied to terms which are blatantly out of roleplay/character. Smiley faces, lol, wtf, etc. etc. in local and system chat. For obvious reasons these should not apply to group chat, I've seen some of the best players on the server say things in group chat that typically arent acceptable, but when you're with friends most people dont care. PM's are debatable, sometimes the swearing and insulting does take place in PM's, so maybe they should be included as well.

Thoughts?

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[Seh'ect]

I would be all for it, if it can be implemented. Especially the OORP chat bit.

But it would have to be setup very carefully or you would be in the middle of a fight, give a couple of insults and find yourself screwed.

Hey hang on it would be fun to watch a battleship suddenly unable to fire upon his foe. So yea thumbs up for this one.:)

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[Vampyroteuthis.Infernalis]

Right now my thoughts are:

f*ck pu$$y b!tch f@g mothertrucker
//I will come to your house at night and murder you and make love to your children.



Also, I would make it an auto-kick after which you can log right back on.

Or just not make lines that include those words appear.

[Reverend Del]

We've discussed this so many times amongst the Admin team and each time we come upon the problem that some words contain swearwords and terms that could be considered leetspeak. FLhook is not terribly sophisticated and won't differentiate between a word containing the offensive term and just the offensive term. Which would leave some ships getting slapped for innocuous words. Not ideal.

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Saint Del is considered a holy healer of diseases of children, but also as a protector of cattle.

[Tytanis]

Instead of it being anti, how about converting it?

As in, ":)" would be "Video communication: Tytanis smiles at you"

Possibly do this for acronyms like brb and lol

brb: "I seem to be entering some kind of magnetic fie...**TRANSMISSION LOST**"

lol: (Green message like cloaking devices)"You hear laughter over the intercom."


Then Discovery could have it's own acronym dictionary for RP =P

[stardust47]

Instead of it being anti, how about converting it?

As in, ":)" would be "Video communication: Tytanis smiles at you"

Possibly do this for acronyms like brb and lol

brb: "I seem to be entering some kind of magnetic fie...**TRANSMISSION LOST**"

lol: (Green message like cloaking devices)"You hear laughter over the intercom."
Then Discovery could have it's own acronym dictionary for RP =P

GENIUS.
PURE GENIUS.
/SIGNED.

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[Elsdragon]

The problem with anti swear things, is because they cant difrrentiate between the thing in context, and the thing. " give me that bit, chuck" Would become " give me that***** Uck ". Things like that are why this stuff dosent get implemeneted often.

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No longer a slave to the man!

[rhodes]

Instead of it being anti, how about converting it?

As in, ":)" would be "Video communication: Tytanis smiles at you"

Possibly do this for acronyms like brb and lol

brb: "I seem to be entering some kind of magnetic fie...**TRANSMISSION LOST**"

lol: (Green message like cloaking devices)"You hear laughter over the intercom."
Then Discovery could have it's own acronym dictionary for RP =P

This would be awsome to add

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On a Comeback Tour

[n00bl3t]

We've discussed this so many times amongst the Admin team and each time we come upon the problem that some words contain swearwords and terms that could be considered leetspeak. FLhook is not terribly sophisticated and won't differentiate between a word containing the offensive term and just the offensive term. Which would leave some ships getting slapped for innocuous words. Not ideal.

The same things happens on the forum too.:mellow:

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Anything I say is not intended as offensive, and to try and deliberately misinterpret it as such would be an attempt at trolling via misrepresentation.

It's not a conspiracy, it's localised bias. They're not intelligent enough to form a conspiracy.

[sean24]

In Bad Company 2 they also have another thing were if you swear in chat it converts the swear words into random symbols: "*#%^ I died" for example.

Instead of it being anti, how about converting it?

As in, ":)" would be "Video communication: Tytanis smiles at you"

Possibly do this for acronyms like brb and lol

brb: "I seem to be entering some kind of magnetic fie...**TRANSMISSION LOST**"

lol: (Green message like cloaking devices)"You hear laughter over the intercom."
Then Discovery could have it's own acronym dictionary for RP =P

Excellent idea. Admins and Cannon please consider ^