An excessive amount of animated smilies in private messages crash the game client
 

Can someone please fix this so I can remove them from Era's swear filter? It looks ridiculous when ":D" is replaced with "**".

Just ban the people doing it.

It should be fixed either way. A problem prevented is no problem at all. If it's there, people will do it :P

They're sending the PMs from Login.

Couldn't you censor it when it's repeated over x times in a PM or something?

Nope :(.




For some reason, I remember being told that by removing the superior native PM windows and replacing them with the inferior scripted ones, we would be able to get these kinds of updates quickly since they don't require a client update.

I dont like seeing ** u *****

Maybe Stefan should work on fixing basic game mechanics like wall detection first.

Seems he doesn't want to. He'll most likely tell you to code your own.

Hmmm this is not simple to filter though, there are several animated smilies.

Restrict the number of all smilies to be used in PMs, say a maximum of ten. Who needs more than ten smilies in a PM anyway?

Then people will just spam gif images.

Then it'd be a wise idea to filter those with the same restrictions?

Wondering if someone could write a script which counts the number of smilies in a text?

Why not just add the "Display Images" check-box and leave it up to the user to decide? All you'd have to do is simply check if there's at least one smiley/html tag. If the box isn't checked just display the plain text, and if they check it, display the images.

If someone sees 5000 ": D"s they're obviously not going to display the images, and this would also allow users to decide if they want to filter other images that might be offensive or inappropriate on a message by message basis.