'Cinderfang' breaking name policy?

#1 - May 12, 2014, 9:32 p.m.

I am just really confused, Iv had my rangers name as Zero Cinderfang since day 1 but since the start of this year whenever I try to name a pet after me for pvp it keeps saying it is “not appropriate” or just now when I tried to make an alternative timeline version of my ranger and came to the conclusion that ‘Cinderfang’ is not appropriate. How is Cinderfang offensive I dont understand, can someone explain how? I dont want an offensive name and get banned >.>

Gaile Gray

#8 - May 13, 2014, 2:17 p.m.

Hey there, Cinderfang. What my friend Mr. (or is it Ms?) Llama said is absolutely and regrettably true: We have a few oddities with the Name and Word Filter that cause problems with perfectly acceptable names. It’s a goal of mine to polish that filter to an incredible level of filter-y sparkliness, but at this time, I’m not able to find out why some words are blocked.

I mean, clearly, having three or four letters in sequence within a benign word should not prevent the legitimate word from being used! But if I type the name for the Factions character — assassin — it works fine. If I type a verb similar to the word “analyze” — inserted here: kitten — it comes out filtered. (The word is “asess” but add the double “s” in the first instance.)

We know that both the in-game filter and the forum filter are less than perfect, and we ask for your understanding if some words are unnecessarily filtered. We hope this will be something we can address in the future.

Gaile Gray

#23 - May 14, 2014, 8:41 p.m.

Seriously, guys, we do know there are issues and these “edge cases” (meanly rare, not odd ) come up. Once I can get my teeth into the filter I hope to be able to fix a lot of things, but I will need a few things to get into alignment before I can do that, and I have a few projects that, honestly, have a higher priority.

It’s something we want to do and will do and in the meantime, I appreciate the good humor and patience of those like Mr. Llama and zero. Hope to be able to get this fixed and you back on your chosen names in the near future!