Invalid Character Name

Jarl_Ironheart

This is a slight rant FYI!

So, I just has this issue pop up and I know exactly why it did BUT that does not mean I agree with why it happened.

I just made a new character, a Nord Stam Sorcerer if you care, and I tried to name him Valkun the Wayfarer. The game kept saying invalid character name. Do you wanna know why? Because ValKUN The Wayfarer has the letters K. U. N. T. and that apparently is bad. So I am punished for making a pretty cool in character name do to some idiotic AI that detects combinations of letters that spell "Bad Words"(which are a made up concept to begin with).

I personally find that really stupid but hey, you may think different. Has this ever happened to anyone else?

Shanee

Never had a username censored, although I try just going with simple names instead of having my own title in the name so I can use different titles depending how I feel.

Although, have experienced way too many times in-game. Forgetting to turn off the chat filter and then having 80% of your sentence ***'d out because some letters were too close together.


Don't think I have ever been on a game where this isn't the case when they use a filter system, I guess it's better to have a couple hiccups with the AI filtering too much than it filtering too little.

Monroe585

I've had many names rejected for stupid reasons, like being unable to use the word 'God' in your name.

stewhead2ub17_ESO

While I don't see a problem with your desired character name, let's be clear. You're not being "Punished" as you put it, merely being denied something you want. Annoying? I suppose. But I think you could simply drop "The" from your self imposed title and go with "Valkun Wayfarer" and still express your desired theme. Also, are you sure that's why or is it possible there is an existing NPC with the name "Valkun"?

EnerG

I would try spelling it Valkon,

NotaDaedraWorshipper

I'm having doubts that's why. Not only is that word spelled with a C, but plenty of people name their characters with swear words just fine and only get to change them later when reported.

Did you change a single latter to try if this was the case?

Jarl_Ironheart

stewhead2ub17_ESO wrote: »

While I don't see a problem with your desired character name, let's be clear. You're not being "Punished" as you put it, merely being denied something you want. Annoying? I suppose. But I think you could simply drop "The" from your self imposed title and go with "Valkun Wayfarer" and still express your desired theme. Also, are you sure that's why or is it possible there is an existing NPC with the name "Valkun"?

Punished was the wrong word. I was mad at the time so use wrong wording. And yes I did some checking. There is no NPC I could find named that in the wiki and I tried just Valkun for a name and its fine but then I put Valkun the and then I tried Kun T and those both got rejected.

Jarl_Ironheart

NotaDaedraWorshipper wrote: »

I'm having doubts that's why. Not only is that word spelled with a C, but plenty of people name their characters with swear words just fine and only get to change them later when reported.

Did you change a single latter to try if this was the case?

I did a few different letters and everything else worked. I even tried doing just Valkun which was allowed, then I tried Valkun the and that was denied. Lastly I tried Kun T and that was denied. I cannot think of anything else that those letters sound like a particular "Bad Word". No NPC named that either. I ended up going with Valkuun instead and that worked just fine.

Jarl_Ironheart

EnerG wrote: »

I would try spelling it Valkon,

I ended up spelling it Valkuun and that worked!

SilverBride

When I was naming my second character after launch I had to alter the spelling of her name for a similar reason. I had to add an extra "n" to Annalyssa.