Help us fix old issues

[Candlewhisper Archive]

I know you are more reluctant to changing the oldest issues, but I was looking at old issues that mentioned your brother or sister, and I noticed one, #042 uses @@RANDOMNAME@@ for your brother.

3. "You know, this heavy metal issue has me thinking," says @@RANDOMNAME@@, your brother, over your weekly game of cribbage. "If these long-haired freaks want to put out their devil-worshipping metal, why don't we let them? Of course, we'll put a little subliminal propoganda into every song... after all, don't these guys owe their freedom of expression to you?"

In keeping with the practice of other issues mentioning your brother, should that be changed to just "says your brother", and avoid naming the leader's brother?

Actually, its @@RANDOMFIRSTMALENAME@@, so it doesn't go so far as telling you what LEADER's surname is.

Way we see it, it's not up to LEADER to decide his brother's name, so it lies outside of over-riding autonomy.

Note also there is precedent for this... Issue 0, in fact...
(and 17)

[Leutria]

Whoops, not sure why I skimmed of it for those other two and only noticed it on that one.

[Trotterdam]

Note that it was @@RANDOMNAME@@ for many years before the more finessed macros were added to the game. Maybe the spoiler thread hasn't caught up in places?

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Note that it was @@RANDOMNAME@@ for many years before the more finessed macros were added to the game. Maybe the spoiler thread hasn't caught up in places?

Very true. And the finessed macros were around for a long time before we got round to fixing it.

[Trotterdam]

So, it's nice that we now have that macro for capitalizing every word in a field, rather than just the first word. There are many places where this is the correct behavior. #558 option 2 is not one of those places.

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Good spot. Changed. Let me know if you see others.

[Brittanova]

Hello there!

Issue #462, option 2:

A protesting, middle-aged, overweight female resident, sporting an unflattering dress and far too much makeup, demands your attention. “Do you expect a young, single, and needless-to-say attractive female like myself to walk the streets IN THE DARK!? Oh how all the unsavory characters across Brittanova would just love that! Stop pandering to this madness and keep the streets lit whatever the cost!

I'm missing the second quotation mark there.

Greetings, Brittanova

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Cheers, fixed.

[Australian rePublic]

What's been added randomname. The only randomnames I know of are the ones in the spoiler thread

So, it's nice that we now have that macro for capitalizing every word in a field, rather than just the first word. There are many places where this is the correct behavior. #558 option 2 is not one of those places.

Ha? Which is this? Why is this the first I'm hearing of it?

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Don't worry about it, honestly. It only matters for people who think too much about capitalisation, which is basically the editors plus Trotterdam.

[Trotterdam]

Well, it only matters for the people who have multiple-word national animal names

Honestly, mine should be fine as a single word, since it's the animal that word originally referred to, but the word has since been hijacked by another animal so people would get confused...

[Australian rePublic]

Don't worry about it, honestly. It only matters for people who think too much about capitalisation, which is basically the editors plus Trotterdam.

**Stamps feet angrily** but I'm curious

[Drasnia]

Don't worry about it, honestly. It only matters for people who think too much about capitalisation, which is basically the editors plus Trotterdam.

**Stamps feet angrily** but I'm curious

Editor macros are different from the ones we authors use. (why? I don't know and I'd rather we both used the same set. It'd save the editors some time as well) Since we don't use it, we don't have a version of it that can be listed since it doesn't exist.

[Australian rePublic]

**Stamps feet angrily** but I'm curious

Editor macros are different from the ones we authors use. (why? I don't know and I'd rather we both used the same set. It'd save the editors some time as well) Since we don't use it, we don't have a version of it that can be listed since it doesn't exist.

I see...

[Trotterdam]

So, a really minor thing, but I noticed that the effect line "'dead men tell no tales' is a valid legal defense" has been changed to "a valid legal defense is 'dead men tell no tales'". Is there some technical reason why having a quotation mark at the beginning of an effect line causes problems (a bug in the sentence capitalization code or something)? Because I think the old version reads better.

On that note, the new effect line "snooze factory is now prison lingo for rehabilitation center" should also have quotation marks around "snooze factory", and possibly "rehabilitation center".

[Ransium]

CWA noticed quotation marks at the start of effects lines messes up the effects line capitalization algorithm.

[Aryxia (Ancient)]

In issue 36, the second option, at the end, reads:

"The best way to help these poor nations is to stop shielding them from the logical consequences of their idiotic, long-debunked socialist economic policies."

This doesn't make much sense when you have a socialist nation without private property. Perhaps it could be "long-debunked capitalist policies".

Besides this, there's the fact that the solicitant is a "Think Tank" member, perhaps for nations without private industry it could be a "Minister of Economic Planning" or something of the sort, but maybe it's not as important as the other part of the issue.

[Trotterdam]

At least one of the effect lines for A Badly Named Issue (the player who posted it to the spoiler thread didn't specify the number) starts with a space.

[Helaw]

In issue 36, the second option, at the end, reads:

"The best way to help these poor nations is to stop shielding them from the logical consequences of their idiotic, long-debunked socialist economic policies."

This doesn't make much sense when you have a socialist nation without private property. Perhaps it could be "long-debunked capitalist policies".

Besides this, there's the fact that the solicitant is a "Think Tank" member, perhaps for nations without private industry it could be a "Minister of Economic Planning" or something of the sort, but maybe it's not as important as the other part of the issue.

I think it's perfectly fine to have someone that disagrees with socialist policies live in a socialist state. If we couldn't have things like that, every speaker in the game would agree with the nation's current stances and there wouldn't be a game to play. Plus, it would be unrealistic.

At least one of the effect lines for A Badly Named Issue (the player who posted it to the spoiler thread didn't specify the number) starts with a space.

All of them, apparently. This is especially odd, as it was not the case while it was being edited.

[Maltropia]

Option 2 in issue #575 reads "I mean cm’on, you can’t ‘spect us to work on a bloody scorcha!" wherein cm’on should be c’mon.

[Candlewhisper Archive]

In issue 36, the second option, at the end, reads:

"The best way to help these poor nations is to stop shielding them from the logical consequences of their idiotic, long-debunked socialist economic policies."

This doesn't make much sense when you have a socialist nation without private property. Perhaps it could be "long-debunked capitalist policies".

Besides this, there's the fact that the solicitant is a "Think Tank" member, perhaps for nations without private industry it could be a "Minister of Economic Planning" or something of the sort, but maybe it's not as important as the other part of the issue.

This is one of the original issues in the game that Max wrote. While we do sometimes make changes to these, it's rarer, and the threshold to do so is higher.

I think it's fine to have a vocal critic of socialism even if you have a socialist nation.

[Candlewhisper Archive]

At least one of the effect lines for A Badly Named Issue (the player who posted it to the spoiler thread didn't specify the number) starts with a space.

Cheers, now fixed. As Helaw says, that's a weird one, as those things were definitely all sorted at an early stage of the edit.

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Option 2 in issue #575 reads "I mean cm’on, you can’t ‘spect us to work on a bloody scorcha!" wherein cm’on should be c’mon.

Good spot, fixed.

Weird thing is I've stared at that word before, thinking it was wrong but unable to mentally sort out why it was wrong.

[Australian rePublic]

Option 2 in issue #575 reads "I mean cm’on, you can’t ‘spect us to work on a bloody scorcha!" wherein cm’on should be c’mon.

Good spot, fixed.

Weird thing is I've stared at that word before, thinking it was wrong but unable to mentally sort out why it was wrong.

So a typo in my issue that wasN'T my fault. That's a new one

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Yeah, you spelt it com'on in your submitted draft.