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Hi! There is a lot of names, but some strings looks like:

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    "OMNI \"FARTYPOOPFART\" GORD",

    "<svg/onload=alert(/WUDCHUCK/)> ",

    "<script>alert(\"Tyler Hoyt\");</script>",
    "=HS= Azzofan",
    "@mtoecker",
    "@RenokK",
    "@TMirroar",
    "@WithinRafael",
    "@xi@g@me",

    "Viktor O\u010dakovsk\u00fd / KillKillABC",
    "Zac \"Holladiewal\" Smith, Lord of Smith & M",
    "[FR]LdtSten",
    "[Morgan Freeman\u2019s voice] the man who, thro",
    "[Noob]Rudolf das kleine Rehntier",
    "[PeerCast] MISO-SHIRU-MG42 [7144]",
    "\u00c5ngstr\u00f6m Trilobite",
    "\u00d8yvind Heggstad",
    "\uc0ac\uacfc\ub9dbTV (TV_Apple)",
    "\uc890\ud138\ub9e8"
I've deleted it and I have some problem with updating. Why it must be not changeable?

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I've had one of my stations being given the name "Satan Anus Railroads". Kinda surprising the list isn't even moderated.

Most of the names are garbage. Is there a way to clear the file, or mod it?

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Xeanoa wrote:I've had one of my stations being given the name "Satan Anus Railroads". Kinda surprising the list isn't even moderated.

Most of the names are garbage. Is there a way to clear the file, or mod it?
Why? There are no rules that say you can't put *not your name* in the backers field. Additionally we have no age rating on the game.
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Rseding91 wrote:Why? There are no rules that say you can't put *not your name* in the backers field. Additionally we have no age rating on the game.
What about hateful phrases? Surely there must needs be some moderation...

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    "\u00c5ngstr\u00f6m Trilobite",
    "\u00d8yvind Heggstad",
What is wrong with those? It is just Ångström Trilobite and Øyvind Heggstad

Updater fails because it is based applying patch to previous version file to make it current file. If previous version file is different then expected, it fails the update because applying patch to it would probably corrupt the file. Steam updater would just replace the file with new version.

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Supercheese wrote:
Rseding91 wrote:Why? There are no rules that say you can't put *not your name* in the backers field. Additionally we have no age rating on the game.
What about hateful phrases? Surely there must needs be some moderation...
Sure, If there is something especially inappropriate, but it won't ever be for trivial things

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Rseding91 wrote:
Xeanoa wrote:I've had one of my stations being given the name "Satan Anus Railroads". Kinda surprising the list isn't even moderated.

Most of the names are garbage. Is there a way to clear the file, or mod it?
Why?
I simply don't like the names. That's why I want them gone.

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I don't like it too. Can it be moddable in future?

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I hope not it's a way to immortalize all the people who have bought the higher tiers of early access before the game was on Steam. It's a small token of gratitude towards them.
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Koub wrote:I hope not it's a way to immortalize all the people who have bought the higher tiers of early access before the game was on Steam. It's a small token of gratitude towards them.
And that's all it should be. 99% of players don't seem to be bothered by it, but it shouldn't be forced on the few that do mind.

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It can already be modded by changing the backer_name of the entity to a different name as soon as the lab/refinery/train stop is put down, e.g. to a random number/custom namelist. Then you'll never see names from backers.json anywhere ingame.
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I think that's the way to go:Make this customizable.



Once I had the idea to generate names depending on the "area" they are in. See OpenTTD: Richmond, Richmond Forrest, Richmond Factory, Richmond Outpost... and so on. The names depends on what is around.
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I'm having the same problem.

I copied the raw contents of the version from github here, and completely replaced the contents of my backers.json. Still the same error.

So I deleted my backers.json, downloaded the github file, and tried to update again. Still the same error.

If I just delte backers.json entirely and don't replace it with anything, I get the error that it doesn't exist.

So how do I get the game to update and just download whatever version of that file it expects to be there?

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When you grab the file from Github, you should take the version that matches your currently installed version of factorio, not the newest one. This change from 3 weeks ago is likely giving you trouble.

If everything else fails, you can always head to the factorio website and download the whole game from there.

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darkfrei wrote:
Wed Feb 15, 2017 1:16 pm
I don't like it too. Can it be moddable in future?
It's moddable now. building entities fires an event, if the built thingy's got a backer name and you don't like it, sub in one you do like.

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Nidan wrote:
Fri Feb 09, 2024 7:22 pm
When you grab the file from Github, you should take the version that matches your currently installed version of factorio, not the newest one. This change from 3 weeks ago is likely giving you trouble.

If everything else fails, you can always head to the factorio website and download the whole game from there.
You were right. I removed the line "Chibi" from my file and the update completed successfully. Thank you!

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quyxkh wrote:
Fri Feb 09, 2024 7:50 pm
darkfrei wrote:
Wed Feb 15, 2017 1:16 pm
I don't like it too. Can it be moddable in future?
It's moddable now. building entities fires an event, if the built thingy's got a backer name and you don't like it, sub in one you do like.
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