@NOVA-5 Stop with this nonsense. If you are trying to find loose threads to tug on because you are bored, might I suggest the youtube comment section.
The reason why @"Projekt Lerdi" was slapped so hard was not the result of this thread, but rather this thread is the result of his punishment. Only recently we came off from a long discussion regarding fixing the Discovery Freelancer community from an ingame perspective before we start advertising the server again - this includes changes the ModDB as well as a mass-email to registered addresses in the form of a newsletter - a paid service, might I add.
But before this happens, we need to figure out who are we advertising this community to, because with the current state of things, Discovery has been affected by the meme culture moreso than it should be healthy. Meme names highly discredit any notion of roleplay this server has and they are currently used not as something witty, but just for shock value that people do that. Well, it is about time to put an end to this nonsense.
Lead by example. Lerdi was smacked hard because he has been here for more than five years now and should know better than to create such characters. He simply took and broke the server rules that are clear-cut in this matter and he did it knowingly and fully straightforward. He was not a new player who made a mistake.
And so with that in mind we decided that it was time to reinforce the warning we gave a month ago regarding names. So yes we voted on pretty harshly and took and deleted his Recruit IDed Advanced Train that was docked on Rochester. His case was not harsh - it is going to be the new norm, but we are giving you a seven day head start to go through your accounts and set things in order. Help us prepare Disco to be advertised to other players.
Nothing is more discouraging than taking a look at the server live chat feed and seeing a rank 23 commenting on some of our names and questioning the nature of this server.
We are trying to set our priorities straight. Even if it means that I have to give up my beloved LNS-Pacific.Fister in the process. If you want to see our numbers climb again, you will have to put some effort into it as well, and quite frankly, considering the amount that is asked from you as a community member, it is really not a damn lot, alright?
The community has shrunk heavily since what we'd like to call the golden days of Disco in terms of player count. But the amount of stupidity that it generates, as evidenced by the last two months worth of player reports and even player requests at times, has certainly not. And that has to change NOW if you want to retain the existing playerbase for the project to even feel worth investing into by new players.
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PSA: If you have been having stutter/FPS lag on Disco where it does not run as smoothly as other games, please look at the fix here: https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...pid2306502
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according to rule 1.6 "... , pop-culture references as player characters is not allowed" four of my chars probably violate that part.
1st. is "Begbie", 2nd "Hagbard Celine", 3rd and 4th are "Leopold Ritter von Sacher Masoch" and "Donatien Alphonse François Marquis de Sade"
- the question now is do these charnames violote rule 1.6 or not?
not to mention the shipnames ... and the drama that starts if ships are deleted
after all i think it would be fair to make a big list with the concerned names and set an ultimatum for renaming.
(12-15-2016, 06:34 PM)Shush Muppet Wrote: Can I just point out in a very calm manner that there are quite a few pop-culture references in this mod?
Eg: the "Serenity" transport obviously a reference to Firefly, the Crayterian Republic which started out as a Battlestar Galactica reference, etc...
While I understand that it may be... annoying to encounter a Luke.Skywalker ingame I would still prefer that to a character named Cris.P.Bacon. Or a character named Derpy.Whooves.
All I'm saying is, I would hate to see more of the playerbase alienated because they decided to have some tongue-in-cheek humor and not take the game so seriously.
I've seen a character named 5th/Mal.Reynolds who got sanctioned about 14 hours ago for something unrelated to this thread. Deleting that character for being a meme would be very ironic considering that Mal Reynolds was the captain/main character on both the "Firefly" TV series (named for the class of his ship) and the "Serenity" movie/sequel (named after his ship which was named based on a battle where he fought years earlier) that inspired the Firefly/Serenity transport in the Discovery mod.
As for Cris.P.Bacon, my only Cryer Pharmaceuticals character is DoctorBenDover, based on a series of jokes that Jay Leno periodically used in his "Tonight Show" monologues years ago. If DoctorBenDover is unacceptable, would renaming to Dr.BenjaminDover be acceptable?
(12-15-2016, 02:41 PM)Jansen Wrote:
Bank characters that we can definitely consider as such will likely not be affected.
Can you please explain what will be considered as "bank character".
Amount of credits,total value of the ship?
Please explain.
Characters made solely for storing large amounts of money, codes, items, etc.
The point is they are not flown normally and tend to be a cheap ship in order to keep more money on them. Essentially ooRP chars that act as a bank for a person.
I normally associate banks for just storing money more or less. Some store codes sometimes, dunno if anyone does so anymore.
Please note the keyword "likely" not being effected. Just because they do not participate in the roleplay environment does not meant that the name simply vanishes off everyone's mental radar. Exercise restraint and use common sense when naming a character. There is no reason why you should be trying to roleplay some character from a popular scifi series in the first place. That is really all that is being asked from you.
As the topic title suggests, at this point we are going to go after all of the more obvious cases. And again, as a general rule of thumb, if your choice of character name makes you question whether or not it fit this category, that already might be a sign that it was a poor choice in the first place.
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PSA: If you have been having stutter/FPS lag on Disco where it does not run as smoothly as other games, please look at the fix here: https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...pid2306502
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(12-15-2016, 02:58 PM)Sombra Hookier Wrote: Mundy, Paul, let's rethink the idea of the OSI infiltration squadron. I think we should rename OSI-John.Cena, OSI-Chuck.Norris and OSI-John.Rambo to something else for the time being!
Mundy here. Let's rename them to OSI-Behind.The.Scenes, OSI-Bloom.Effect, and OSI-Anti.Aliasing! Just kidding. We need better ideas.
(12-15-2016, 02:41 PM)Jansen Wrote:
Bank characters that we can definitely consider as such will likely not be affected.
Can you please explain what will be considered as "bank character".
Amount of credits,total value of the ship?
Please explain.
How to make a Bank Character obvious....................name it Wizard's.Bank etc. I am sure that will make it pretty obvious, especially if it is a Stargazer and has lots of money on it.
As for Ships that store Weapons and Armour etc.......................it could possibly be called Wizard's Armoury.
Ships called Sucky.Sucky or Lolololo or any such things will be the one that get deleted.
Azuki Tamagochi
Sum Yungai
These two names, to me, mean absolutely nothing and therefore I wouldn't 'bat an eyelid' at them.
Hopefully people will understand what we are trying to say, now.
'I would like to be half as clever as some people like to believe they are' Life is full of disappointments, it is how we handle them that helps to define us, as a person