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Thread: Most annoying text bugs?

TorvusMessorius
Fri Jan 30, 2004 2:49 pm
#261

Think this has been mentioned but :


Master Carbinier (incorrect)


needs to be changed to


Master Carbineer


Also how about changing Teras Kasi Master to Master Teras Kasi (just swapping it around)





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j1nX
Fri Jan 30, 2004 4:38 pm
#262

hoopty - lol

there's a word I haven't heard since, like, 5th grade

thx for the laugh
R2DADROID
Fri Jan 30, 2004 4:42 pm
#263

As a friend of mine says, "SOE killed the winkey face"



I can use it here, but not in the game, because of the semicolon issue.


If you type "I'd NEVER do THAT! "


You get this:


X says, "I'd NEVER do THAT!"


")" says X.






R2



"Oh JarJar, everyone hates you but me" - Comicbook Guy
R2DADROID
Fri Jan 30, 2004 4:49 pm
#264






electricnomad wrote:

Wow, I just noticed that the online manual has the Smuggler's prerequisites wrong:








Smuggler: An adventurer able to sell contraband and collect spice.
Requirements: Pistol Specialists ( Marksman), Business IV: Business Diversity (Artisan), Unarmed Specialist (Brawler) & Engineering Specialist (Artisan)


http://starwarsgalaxies.station.sony.com/manual_detail.jsp?id=56845







That's kind of a big deal, and is annoying. You only need Unarmed 4 and Pistols 4 to become a Smuggler.







Smuggler had that design in beta.


I'd made sense, based on what Smugglers do, with slicing and spice making.


But they dropped the Artisan requirement.


A few months ago a friend of mine was going for Smuggler and he was talking about crafting.


I asked him why, and he said because it said so in the manual or game guide or something.



I had no idea it said that in the online manual still.


I guess the devs didn't either.




R2



"Oh JarJar, everyone hates you but me" - Comicbook Guy
Kaylin
Fri Jan 30, 2004 5:14 pm
#265

Emotes show up in a cloudy "thinking" thought bubble - ARGH I'm not thinking the emote, i'm doing it!!!!!!!!!!





Cmdr. Kaylin Danmor
Blade of the Alliance


rebus_ks
Fri Jan 30, 2004 6:00 pm
#266


One other little thing I don't quite understand is that if you do a player search, if only one matching player is found it will tell you that one player is found, but if it finds more than one, it will say that that number +1 has been found.



Sorry to follow up to myself, but this is incorrect (I must have misremembered the behavior, and I should have tested it first). What actually happens is that it always reports that one more person was found than actually was, unless your character is in the list, in which case the total is correct. Of course, it correctly informs you when no players are found.

One other little nit-pick: in the skill sheet, the skill mod "Additional Pets" should really be called "Number of Pets", because that's what the number beside the skill mod actually means.

Hope this helps.
Flentil
Fri Jan 30, 2004 6:38 pm
#267

Most annoying text bugs:


Every time a dev refers to someplace like Jabba's Palace or Nym's Stronghold as a "themepark" on the official forums. Disney World is a themepark, not jabba's palace.


Today I rode my swoop out to explore Jabba's Palace and had a run-in with some of his thugs. I got knocked out at one point but survived. It was interesting for awhile.


Or let me re-phase that in dev-speak. Today I logged in and rode my money-sinktothe Jabba Themepark. I fought someMOBs along the way, got incapped, but didn't need to re-spawn. It was a good time-sink.


This kind of talk is good around the dev office, but please spare us. We don't work here.


roberthk
Fri Jan 30, 2004 6:46 pm
#268

Ihave not read all the previous posts so this may have been mentioned already. When the effects of Neutron Pixie fades it says "The mind enhancing effects of the Neutron Pixie leave. You have to fight to retain consciousness." though Mind isthe only stat NOT affected buy Neutron Pixie.


4ceSensitive
Fri Jan 30, 2004 7:52 pm
#269

havent had the desire to search through the previous pages but a few I'll list a few I have come across



  • my no.1 peeve since I began - when looting if the corpse has nothing the message "you find nothing else of value on the body" - else indicates there is something prior to getting nothing, maybe trivial but has always annoyed me.
    Also you could change themessage when they actually have some loot to "you have completely looted the corpse of all junk" and add a "do you wish to delete it Y/N"dialog to save having to check inventory and do it.

  • when attacked by Stormtroopers with grenades an actual error msg something like "missing text_data for COMBAT_SPAM_GRENADE"

  • when fighting critters you occassionally get the msg
    "you try to hit piket plains walkerbut him counterattacks"
    - obviously this sounds pretty silly

  • In the past doing quests especially the rebel theme park there were dozens and dozens of simple grammatical errors, poor spelling, repeated sentences, and many that made no sense whatsoever. I was quite disappointed with this to say the least as surely these are amongst the more popular of the many quests that people choose to do. I think I took some screenshots way back when I did these but they may have been lost, if I can find them I'll go into more detail. One I can think of at the moment is Ben Kringle in Mos Taike who has [] squares and spaces scattered throughout every sentence he says.


possibly the wrong place to post this but just on the off chance this gets noticed - when buying a ticket from the starport is it really necessary to have an "OK" window appear, this small delay can sometimes mean the difference between catching the ship and missing it. The dreaded sound of a ship taking off as I burst run through the starport corridors is one of my least favourite things in the game. Of course I don't actually bother clicking it alot of the time and just press alt to get rid of the open windows while I haul ass, but a system message as opposed to a confirm box would be much better in my opinion as this just seems like an unnecessary time sink.






Cheradenine Zakalwe

"You're not a god Cherad!"

Why don't you guys all put down those VKs and hammers, pick up your guns, pull the triggers and find out?"
DArKFUrY
Fri Jan 30, 2004 7:55 pm
#270

How about when someone likes to be an (insert mean word) and Spams a whole bunch of Emptry Prose in Formatter for everyone by not typing anything.



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Glasi
Fri Jan 30, 2004 8:16 pm
#271

if this has been mentioned, i'm sorry, didn't feel like pawing through 12 pages:

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=34415&poll_id=0&warned=y



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JoarAdanNessos
Fri Jan 30, 2004 8:27 pm
#272

You still have a loading screen that details corpseruns.



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Haden Blackman: Yeah, all the guys who are happy with everything are playing the game. They aren't spending their time sending you guys letters or posting on the forums.
Polenth
Fri Jan 30, 2004 10:02 pm
#273

When I got voted out as mayor, I got a nice email to tell me that '%TT' had beaten me in the election. I'd guess it's a mispelling of the variable or something, as that certainly wasn't the name of the player that won...



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