Pirate Names - Can't figure Disney out
 

Beats me...

I've seen some incredibly risque names on there, and some incredibly violent ones, along with copyrighted character names allowed - but, I put in for 'Verilee Tickles' on the test server, and am told to come up with a new name.

We tried for Captain Tickles, and Verilee Tickles, and they said no. Go figure.
No perverted meaning, just a funny name for two pirates.

Geez Disney, lighten up and go back to monitoring some existing names.

Anything with 'Blood' is ok, Skull... sure! Oh well..

Back to the drawing board....

When they reject a name, I REALLY wish they would say which guideline it was, that caused the name to be unacceptable. IDK, some consistency would be nice. Did you try "Verily Ticklish" or "Captain Verily Ticklish" or "Captain Ticklish"? Maybe they just didn't like the spelling...

I know supposedly they don't allow any "Captain"s yet there's a Captain Walter, go figure. They've turned down all the Captains I've asked for yet they approved someone else. That could be the issue with that, but like Ed said, maybe they just didn't like the spelling on Verilee Tickles.

Strange....I got both of my Captain names approved on the first shot.

Captain Enzo Thatch (open)
Captain Joseph Lioncourt (test)

I'm really not sure what the ultimate deciding factor is when they decline a name...but I've seen plenty of subjective ones.

:skull:

Yeah, they don't allow any captain names anymore, or commodore names, or ANYTHING with "a title." I can't even COUNT how many captains and commodores etc I have seen in the game so it must be a newer guideline. Personally, I find it idiotic. If there's already so many captains etc, what the heck is the point of denying them now?! I was rather upset when about 10 of my "captain" names were rejected. (That was before I read the new guidelines.)

EDIT: Here are a few guidelines that I find ridiculous copied directly from the Disney site.

No names with titles already in them. For example: Captain Anne, Mr. Smith
No non-English words (They rejected "Salvador")
No personally identifiable information. For example, you can't use your own name (I used my own name, how do they know? And if they do, how would anyone else know it's your real name?)
No religious names (Normally I wouldn't think this was dumb, but I think Disney has a very loose interpretation of "religious names.")

Those are very old guidelines, they just haven't ever been consistent in their application of them. (It is hard to make those judgment calls, after all.) Who knows, maybe the "Captain" names you requested were rejected for an entirely separate reason.

seriously who cares what name is in game? unless its cussing or perverted. Its a DISNEY game...sooo why cant people have disney character names? silly if u ask me....copywright? who cares we arent making money off of having a pirate named after something in tv or music. Maybe im wrong, idk.

Yeah, I'm a fairly new player so I assumed the "Captain" names were submitted prior to a guideline change- I guess not. And I guess they could have been rejected for other reasons, but in my case, I entered it without "captain" and it was accepted. :)

inconsistency = annoyance

I agree with Jas here. My name has Commodore in it, so I count myself lucky...

Zeke

I don't even try, gave up long ago after everything I sent was regected with no reasons.

Did though annoy me seeing one of those requests as a new pirate on test a week ago.

You can't have a name that an npc has. I wanted to base 3/4 test characters on test characters, creating exact look-alikes (including the vanishing Bo Beck). Before you are even done submitting a character with a shared name, it will say you can't do it (that is, upon clicking 'Finished').

I have a character named Timothy Dartan though, the gypsy boss (well, not yet really, as the name still needs to go through). I wonder if these names can be submitted on the second and third tries though: who knows?

Anywhoo, I think that if you resubmit those names, they'll probably go through.
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On that note, does that mean you can't have a character named Cassandra?

Probably depends on the day. ;)

Well, we tried for two - Captain AND Verilee... either way, it sucks.

Both were denied. So we are back to the drawing board for two names that clearly go together.

Maybe you could ask Lucinda if the star alignment/moon phase is favorable to POTCO naming your newest pirate baby...If she says no, then try asking Valentina, ...Fabiola, ...Romany Bev...

I hate when a name isnt approved... especially when you dont know why. No pun intended, but it kind of takes the wind out of your sails when you created a pirate with a name in mind. Now I have two level 13's who remain nameless and Im totally uninspired. LOL

Wondering if I should resubmit the same names and see what happens...