More Doff Name Phun.

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Enjoy

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/6052/doffname2.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/263/doffname2.jpg/)

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http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/3821/screenshot2011121913245.jpg

At least ******* is a rare but real form of Gerald. ***** here is right up there with F'ukk.

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Enjoy

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/6052/doffname2.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/263/doffname2.jpg/)

"*******" is a real name. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*******

Ironically, the profanity filter on the forums doesn't know that.

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Enjoy

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/6052/doffname2.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/263/doffname2.jpg/)

I am sooo tempted to make that my signature, lol...

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"*******" is a real name. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*******

Ironically, the profanity filter on the forums doesn't know that.

You need to check the middle name on urbandictionary.com

As I understand it, it's mainly a British term hence why the profanity filter is working :D

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When I was a kid, Radio 1 used to do a roadshow in the UK and one of the features was "******* the Gorilla". It would never happen today but back then it was just seen as a bit of harmless innuendo. A man in a suit prancing about in a silly quiz feature.

Times change and sensibilities, concepts of slang and crudeness change and evolve with it. Even the most offensive word in the English language was originally just a Saxon word for "groove/notch" that was used in slang for what we now know it to mean.

The history of language is full of examples of beg, steal or borrow.

To be honest I get annoyed with purists who say "You can't use that word it doesn't exist". The only reason language exists is because people invent and use words to convey ideas. New words come into existence and old ones fade... just like the stars in the curtain of night.

Language is there to serve the people... not people to serve the language.

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I have a somebody "Conception Spinner" on my crew... what an awesome name! I do have some curious ones... not as funny as the listed ones... but I shall make a list.

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I used to travel a great deal in my work as an IT consultant, and I was always on the lookout for strange, unusual and just plain freakish names. Since my wife works in HR, she'd encounter some as well. We still get a chuckle out of "Khlav Kalash," which was some sort of undefined ethnic New York food cart comestible that Homer Simpson discovered in an episode some years ago. It just so happens that my wife once reviewed a job application and a resume from a fellow (?) named "Khlav Kalash," too. :D

FWIW, I can't imagine that the questionable doff names are accidents. IMO, at least *some* of them have to be the result of the devs having a little fun. :)

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I found this one looking for an astrometrics officer.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/17/screenshot2011122916501.jpg/
Turns out its too small, it says Thin Troll, a Bolian female.

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I picked up a Nausicaan research lab scientist named "Load." :D

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..and his surname is ",8,1"? :D

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Oh wow...that loads up the way-back machine. :D

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Looks like I really am becoming a magnet for these...

Here's my latest recruit....

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/7196/doffname3.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/11/doffname3.jpg/)

Hey Heretic, can I have a Doff called Grope?

Then I'd have Kiss, Grope and my Diplomat :D

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Looks like I really am becoming a magnet for these...

Here's my latest recruit....

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/7196/doffname3.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/11/doffname3.jpg/)

Hey Heretic, can I have a Doff called Grope?

Then I'd have Kiss, Grope and my Diplomat :D

The real question is, can you find an assignment they can all be on, in that order? :cool:

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The real question is, can you find an assignment they can all be on, in that order? :cool:There would need to a fourth Doff, in the 3rd slot, named O'ral, or something to that effect.

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The real question is, can you find an assignment they can all be on, in that order? :cool:

Probably not, but I'm sure they will have fun trying :D

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Looks like I really am becoming a magnet for these...

Here's my latest recruit....

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/7196/doffname3.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/11/doffname3.jpg/)


Kiss... has the "Spiritual" trait because God Gave Rock 'n Roll 2 him. :D:cool:;):p

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I have a Caitian named R'runt, and a Ferengi named Trek.

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And here's my latest recruit

http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/2143/doffname4.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/585/doffname4.jpg/)

I also have a Klingon called Krap

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And here's my latest recruit

http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/2143/doffname4.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/585/doffname4.jpg/)

I also have a Klingon called Krap

You have a very strange gift for this...

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It still does not beat the new recruit the KDF Engineer I am leveling obtained, a Klingon named Krap. If there are any, perform maintenance on the waste disposal systems missions, he is going to be on it.

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And here's my latest recruit

http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/2143/doffname4.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/585/doffname4.jpg/)

I also have a Klingon called Krap

HEY!! No fair, when I got Krap on Tribble testin Heretic said he and many others were being fixed.
I loved Krap so much i made a Boff and named him Krap.

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http://www.stowiki.org/Cakes

I found this, I think it should win the compo.

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You have a very strange gift for this...

Well I suppose I do open a lot of junior officer cadre packs. But I'm still surprised what I get now and again :D

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HEY!! No fair, when I got Krap on Tribble testin Heretic said he and many others were being fixed.
I loved Krap so much i made a Boff and named him Krap.

I guess that he never got around to it. I looked on the exchange for a blue Klingon DOFF named Krap but the closest I could find is a green Klingon named Kraac, which I guess is almost as good. If he were not 2 million EC, I might be tempted to by him so that I could send Kraac on a mission to acquire contraband.

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And a couple more.. Personally I think the 2nd one is a skin job.

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/9995/doffname5.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/51/doffname5.jpg/)

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A human biologist with the last name of Butts.

"Sir, have you seen Crewmen Butts yet today?"

"My private life is non of your conce-! Oh wait, you mean. Yes... she's doing rather well actually."

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Yesterday I got a female Caitian colonist named "M'ale". Found that fun, too.

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Looks like I really am becoming a magnet for these...

Here's my latest recruit....

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/7196/doffname3.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/11/doffname3.jpg/)

Hey Heretic, can I have a Doff called Grope?

Then I'd have Kiss, Grope and my Diplomat :D


I've got a voyeur with a toy and her friend that talks crap to meet up at your little party. Plus my favorite Deltan, just for kicks.


http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/5269/vy002.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/37/vy002.png/)
http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/6789/sl001.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/594/sl001.png/)
http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/303/sh003.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/715/sh003.png/)
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/600/ay004.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/407/ay004.png/)

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Well, the most questionably named Doff I receivedfrom the Doff syustem recruit assignment was a Doff named Gayy. :eek:

(And I have to say, considering what the forum profanity filter and in game profanity filter ensor, it's amazing what the Doff name generation algorithym gets away with of late.)

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Those Deltan names are very funny and loooong. :D

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Well, the most questionably named Doff I receivedfrom the Doff syustem recruit assignment was a Doff named Gayy. :eek:

(And I have to say, considering what the forum profanity filter and in game profanity filter ensor, it's amazing what the Doff name generation algorithym gets away with of late.)

And just how is that "questionable"? I really hope you're not trying to insinuate that the word "gay" is somehow "questionable" or "objectionable". But yeah, I know you just did. I hardly think that the word deserves or needs to be filtered. That's pretty insulting, thanks.

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I have doffs named Vaaj and V'jissa. Pronounce those as you will. Oh, and Vaaj is a guy.

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And just how is that "questionable"? I really hope you're not trying to insinuate that the word "gay" is somehow "questionable" or "objectionable". But yeah, I know you just did. I hardly think that the word deserves or needs to be filtered. That's pretty insulting, thanks.

Not to mention that G*aylord is a long-standing English given and surname. If you ever go to Cooperstown you will discover that G*aylord Perry is in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

EDIT: Cryptic is filtering the word G*aylord as objectionable. Really? How sad.

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EDIT: Nevemind, I wasn't paying attention to how long this thread was

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EDIT: Cryptic is filtering the word G*aylord as objectionable. Really? How sad.

What is sad is that they filter that but create DOFFS with names like F'ukk and Sh'it (per Anon). Just seems a little hypocritical.

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What is sad is that they filter that but create DOFFS with names like F'ukk and Sh'it (per Anon). Just seems a little hypocritical.

The non-human names are generated algorithmically. So, there are a list of prefix phonemes and a list of suffix phonemes, and the system generates them when the duty officers are initially made. Since there are literally tens of thousands of duty officers, we can't do them by hand. Unfortunately, changing the names of offenders is problematic, because anytime a change is made to duty officers it will regenerate those names, and since they are based on the same seed, the offending names reemerge.

What we've been doing is, on a case by case basis, removing some of the phonemes from individual species phoneme name files.

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[...]Since there are literally tens of thousands of duty officers,[...]

*blinks*
*looks at the 3500 duty officers on stowiki*
*blinks again*

tens of thousands?

as in... a multiple of tenthousand?

*crawls in a corner and starts humming some weird tune*

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*blinks*
*looks at the 3500 duty officers on stowiki*
*blinks again*

tens of thousands?

as in... a multiple of tenthousand?

*crawls in a corner and starts humming some weird tune*

Well, consider the combinations: Male and Female. Each species. Each faction (since a couple of species can be in both factions). Each specialization. Each quality. Six versions of each of those. Plus uniques. Plus new ones coming with the DS9 additions.

It adds up fast. :cool:

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Well, consider the combinations: Male and Female. Each species. Each faction (since a couple of species can be in both factions). Each specialization. Each quality. Six versions of each of those. Plus uniques. Plus new ones coming with the DS9 additions.

It adds up fast. :cool:

what are the chances of more doff races? there have to be 50 different races easily that we have seen over the years that could get added. are we likely to see more or does it all come down to CBS and what they will allow.

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I think one of my human female Doffs is called Butts.

She's oddly awesome.

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what are the chances of more doff races? there have to be 50 different races easily that we have seen over the years that could get added. are we likely to see more or does it all come down to CBS and what they will allow.

I think you will be pleased by what is in the pipeline.

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The non-human names are generated algorithmically. So, there are a list of prefix phonemes and a list of suffix phonemes, and the system generates them when the duty officers are initially made. Since there are literally tens of thousands of duty officers, we can't do them by hand. Unfortunately, change the names of offenders is problematic, because anytime a change is made to duty officers it will regenerate those names, and since they are based on the same seed, the offending names reemerge.

What we've been doing is, on a case by case basis, removing some of the phonemes from individual species phoneme name files.

What about multiple DOs with the same name? I've noticed a few cases of that happening as I search the exchange or look on STO Wiki...

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I think you will be pleased by what is in the pipeline.Probably not your Area, but when are we going to get more Boff/Playable Species? For instance, Deltans making a Doff appearance begs for it to be a Boff/Playable species.

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I think you will be pleased by what is in the pipeline.

Damnit man you can't just say things like this and leave us hanging, heart attack runs in some of our families you know. At least post an unrelated screenshot that has the top half of a face for us to speculate on.

On a serious note, I think the filter system could use some tweaking for races - as it is quite a few races aren't even in the filter, and the more that come the less useful that part of the filter is becoming.

If I remember past comments correctly, Bajorans are coming in a couple weeks with FE4. Any word on a KDF counterpart race?

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If I remember past comments correctly, Bajorans are coming in a couple weeks with FE4. Any word on a KDF counterpart race?

Both factions will have access to Cardassians. Federation will have access to Bajorans. KDF will have access to Ferasans, a warrior, frequently telepathic off-shoot of the Caitian species, much like the Romulans and Vulcans.

We are also planning several other species as well, time and resources permitting.

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Both factions will have access to Cardassians. Federation will have access to Bajorans. KDF will have access to Ferasans, a warrior, frequently telepathic off-shoot of the Caitian species, much like the Romulans and Vulcans.

We are also planning several other species as well, time and resources permitting.

Awesome. Any chance for a Ferasan or two in the defector pool? I don't think I have quite enough interstellar rivals shoved into my ship together.

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Both factions will have access to Cardassians. Federation will have access to Bajorans. KDF will have access to Ferasans, a warrior, frequently telepathic off-shoot of the Caitian species, much like the Romulans and Vulcans.

We are also planning several other species as well, time and resources permitting.

I think you misspelled Ferasan (http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Kzinti).

..aaanyways, I would also love to see Deltans as a BO or playable race (or the ability to name our alien species).

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Both factions will have access to Cardassians. Federation will have access to Bajorans. KDF will have access to Ferasans, a warrior, frequently telepathic off-shoot of the Caitian species, much like the Romulans and Vulcans.

We are also planning several other species as well, time and resources permitting.

So essentially, non-union, generic, off-brand Kzinti?

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So essentially, non-union, generic, off-brand Kzinti?

I wouldn't call them that, no, though they are a slight homage to the Kzinti, but only slight, as they have more to do with some focus we are planning on shifting to the Caitians in the future.

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I wouldn't call them that, no, though they are a slight homage to the Kzinti, but only slight, as they have more to do with some focus we are planning on shifting to the Caitians in the future.

Shifting what, exactly?

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I wouldn't call them that, no, though they are a slight homage to the Kzinti, but only slight, as they have more to do with some focus we are planning on shifting to the Caitians in the future.

Sounds like a future FE Series, IMO...

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Or maybe the Borg want some cats as pets. ;)

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Why come none have the bada** powerful names that demand respect?

Like Buck Masters, Chuck Norris, Tyronne Shoelace, Max Powers, Big Jim Slade.....you get the idea

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Shifting what, exactly?

Shifting focus - jeez, pay attention! It doesn't get any clearer than that! Nope, not vague at all... :p

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The closest I've got to a funnily named doff is "Young Nick People"