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What that I always laughed at occurs when using the flamethrower. A buddy of mine, Afo, is a commando and when he does a flamesingle or flamecone it says "Afo uses your flamethrower ....". How he got my flamethrower is the real question .

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Utess wrote:
Oh, and my personal pet peeve:

All creatures/pets are refered to as "him" in the emotes even when they are female and labeled as such.

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same thing in combat chat.

Him conteratacks, him dodges etc...

I found a text bug in the "Advanced Guides" section of the SWG site. Under crafting the writer stated in an example that a resource he was using had no Conductivity, and as such the Conductivity's value would register as 0. Now, if I remember correctly, this has been changed, right?

100sided dice

dice 4

dice 3

dice 2

I did some bounty hunting and sure enough, a mark threw and missed me with a grenade. Here is the text I get:

[cbt_spam: throw_fragmentation_miss] result [569562625]

I hope this helps!

Q3PO, is there any way to strip all text strings that can be displayed to players out of the code and into a flat file,run that file through a spelling and grammar checker, then correct (in the code) the errors identified?

It seems to me that this would both save time and produce a higher success rate for finding text mistakes. The only tricky bit would be teaching the spell checker to ignore percent variables,but the improved speed and coverage of error detection would probably stillmake this approach cost-effective.

If memory serves me right, in the pikeman skill tree the descriptions for actionhit1 and actionhit2 mention giving WOUNDS (in big letters). In reality these are bleeds, no more wounding than anything else.

There are many instances where "its" is incorrectly spelled "it's". "Its" is a possessive pronoun like hers or his (not her's or hi's), whereas "it's" is a contraction of "it is". That one drives me nuts, and is omnipresent in the computer industry.

There are some very odd resource/animal combinations. Beetle-looking krevols with reptilian meat, voritor lizards with avian bones, and reptilian fliers with avian meat, as examples. That's more of a wacky database issue than a text bug though.

Biggest peeve is DEFINITELY having all creatures being referred to as males, even when they're specifically female.


Second biggest is Boss nass referring to me as "boyo". *grumbles* Dunno how female gungans is built, but Allura is NOT a boyo! And I'm gonna kick him if he calls me that again!

The title bug where if you ever set a title the next time you log in that title reappears. That and all the Commando titles do not make any sense.

One other issue dealing with text I started in a new thread over here in the core issues forum:

Spacial Spam (Flood Control)

When you get city banned, the system message you receive has poor grammer (something like "you havve been banned from this the city").

These grammer errors aren't a big deal, but your right, sometimes little things like this make a big difference in peoples perceptions of the game.

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Utess wrote:
Oh, and my personal pet peeve:

All creatures/pets are refered to as "him" in the emotes even when they are female and labeled as such.

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Worse yet, in combat spam at least, it is used in gramatically incorrect contexts like "him attacks" instead of "he attacks." Looks like someone was told to use pronouns, but there isn't logic there to support them.

Then again, it may have been a non-english-fluent programmer, this is a common grammar problem among people with certain native languages.

Understandable though, it is late and I don't think my spelling is working either.