Merchant Archive
Thread: Small Issue Illegal Vendor Names
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Chickenlad
Mon Sep 20, 2004 4:08 pm
#1
Well, considering people are losing vendors and items, this feels pretty insignificant right now, but I'll toss it in the mix and maybe it can get looked at down the road.
I'm wondering what words people have found can't be used in vendor names? No, not the obvious words that shouldn't be there, but things that would help define my vendor. For me, the big ones that cannot be used in a vendor name, in any way, shape, or form are:
Doc (including doctor)
Medic (including Medical and combat medic)
Enhance (including enhancement) - technically, this is what "buff" packs are called, and I want to use both terms to distinguish old style buffs from the new Poison/Disease resist ones.
There's a bunch more, I will add as I encounter them as I am setting up my shop again now (I quit this &*(&% game, but dang it, I just love crafting too much)
I'd appreciate it if other crafters and merchants could post some words that can't be used in vendor names, and maybe submit it to the devs later to find out why.
Message Edited by Chickenlad on 09-20-2004 06:09 PM
Komick
Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:26 am
#2
Let's see, yesterday I was unable to create a vendor when the name started with any of the following:
The
Gambling
Loaded
Dice
Anybody else finding it difficult to come up with names for vendors given these restrictions?
The
Gambling
Loaded
Dice
Anybody else finding it difficult to come up with names for vendors given these restrictions?
GonkSevenT3
Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:46 am
#3
Wookiee doesn't work. I hate that I have to call my vendor Wook Wear.
Andymantium
Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:54 am
#4
Last time I tried, "Discount" wouldn't take...was going to make a "Discount Armor" vendor, but oh well...on to the full price vendor they go 
DocSavag
Tue Sep 21, 2004 8:44 am
#5
The name filter is controled by LucasArts and it includes any name or string that they consider intellectual property as well as any title or word they feel is inappropriate. The matching engine doesn't account for spacing so the string is detected in any word (ex. discount gets busted because of Count) I HATE the filter but I've been told its not up for discussion. I needle them about it every chance I get on the off chance they will one day push LA to make changes.
RynnnDraggon
Tue Sep 21, 2004 9:06 am
#6
lol ok so does Lucas Arts Own the '&' symbol??? I think Not...I think the Devs are getting WAY to Power Tripy and someone needs to bring them back to reality...Hince a Tornado sent by God above!!!
Let me put it this way to you....
We PAY to play this game for OUR enjoyment...
We PAY the devs PayChecks....
IF no one Played SWG Ever...where would the devs be???? Either Looking for a new job or on Welfair...
I tried to name my vendour..
Odds & Ends....and I had to spell the whole bloody thing out... Give me a Bloody Break... Lucas Arts Can Not stop people from Writing out the & symbol....
Guess they better be careful in their wanting Power...after all...There IS only ONE God...and they aren't Him...
Chickenlad
Tue Sep 21, 2004 9:57 am
#7
what about doc, medic and enhance?
Why might those be restricted? I can understand wookie, although I guess I feel if people are playing a game where money goes to LucasArts, perhaps they should allow a little free use of their trademarks.
Dimear
Tue Sep 21, 2004 1:15 pm
#8
Jedi and Lightsaber don't work. Pretty obvious ones though considering that any Lucasarts owned names are taboo in the Lucasarts game.
So my actual vendor is Lightsabre Kits. Most people don't noitce when you flip lettres aruond in the middle of wrods anyway...
So my actual vendor is Lightsabre Kits. Most people don't noitce when you flip lettres aruond in the middle of wrods anyway...
Cafa
Tue Sep 21, 2004 2:23 pm
#9
DocSavag wrote:
Doc and Medic are probably caught becasue they are profession titles. Enhance... heh.. "han" is not allowed in ANY context in the filter.
So what's so wrong with Architect in the name?
So mad I had to name my vendor "Asia Arch-tect Artisan Goods"
Note that it TOOK Artisan.
Fivo Asia
EdOWar
Tue Sep 21, 2004 4:37 pm
#10
I tried to name a vendor: Weapons by the Crate. The filter didn't like that. So I named it: Weapons-by-the-Crate, and that worked. Not sure if it was 'Weapon', 'by', 'the' or 'Crate' that was the offending word, but just seems a little silly to me.
Slim Vargo, Corbantis
lemonella
Tue Sep 21, 2004 5:16 pm
#11
Cafa wrote:
DocSavag wrote:
Doc and Medic are probably caught becasue they are profession titles. Enhance... heh.. "han" is not allowed in ANY context in the filter.
So what's so wrong with Architect in the name?
So mad I had to name my vendor "Asia Arch-tect Artisan Goods"
Note that it TOOK Artisan.
Fivo Asia
Exactly. I mean really, why on earth the filters will not accept Architecture or Architectural is incomprehensible. If artisan is accepted then why not Architect? Tailoring, tailor and Tailored are accepted as well. Note...if the titles on our houses will accept profession titles, then why not vendors?
I really wish a dev would explain these things to us. It would make for alot less complaining (on my part at least 
) if I at least knew some of the reasons why certain things work/don't work in game.
p4Samwise
Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:09 pm
#12
DocSavag wrote:
Doc and Medic are probably caught becasue they are profession titles. Enhance... heh.. "han" is not allowed in ANY context in the filter.
So I can't make a vendor called "Free Handjobs" just because "han" is in the name? What a rip.
Elioi
Wed Sep 22, 2004 12:04 am
#13
I'm not sure, but i think the filter also hits things used by other players as character names or possibly PA names, that why i usually use a - or an = sign on either side of a word i think may be flagged that way.
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