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Offline keith.lamothe

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Re: Easter Eggs
« Reply #15 on: January 09, 2011, 11:49:11 pm »
When I see Murdoch I actually think of the A Team.
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Re: Easter Eggs
« Reply #16 on: January 10, 2011, 12:29:48 am »
I have a planet called "cuddly hug ". Who added that to the list, hmm? :P

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Re: Easter Eggs
« Reply #17 on: January 10, 2011, 10:55:55 am »
I have a planet called "cuddly hug ". Who added that to the list, hmm? :P

That is definitely not an intentional one.
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Re: Easter Eggs
« Reply #18 on: January 10, 2011, 11:13:31 am »
Yes, there is no list per se, except of some short character strings that are combined to make the names.  There's no filter on the results (except that the word parts don't include all character combinations) so something like that can come up.  Very rarely, it seems, which is good.
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Offline x4000

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Re: Easter Eggs
« Reply #19 on: January 10, 2011, 11:19:36 am »
Most likely it combined something like "ra" with "ape," and then got "raape," then filtered out the double-A's, and came up with the above.

In fact, I'll go ahead and start a "bad name list" for things that come up based on the syllables, that the game will automatically filter out.  This is the first one to go in there.  The list doesn't ever need to grow too huge, because most of the syllables are such that they can't possibly spell anything bad.  But this is one that several folks have mentioned seeing, so clearly it needs to be filtered out for us to maintain our family-friendly ratings, etc.
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Re: Easter Eggs
« Reply #20 on: January 10, 2011, 01:30:04 pm »
I have a planet called "cuddly hug ". Who added that to the list, hmm? :P

That is definitely not an intentional one.

It would be fitting and hilarious if it were an AI Core World.

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Re: Easter Eggs
« Reply #21 on: January 10, 2011, 01:42:52 pm »
Something I find myself doing more and more often recently is chain-name my planets, gets some weird names in their from time to time.
Eg: Home -> Almost home -> Homesick -> Away -> Far away -> The distance -> Just memories -> ....

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Re: Easter Eggs
« Reply #22 on: January 10, 2011, 11:52:33 pm »
Shame on Chris to not seed an easter egg on X style and the seed 4000.
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