Content Possibility

AndrewCarr · Post by **AndrewCarr** » Mon May 24, 2004 1:20 am

Since the devs are obviously overworked like in nearly every game, and there don't seem to be enough dm's on(less God interaction, little amt of events/quests) but since i think everyone wants content, what about letting various players compete to have the chance to write lore and journal entries for the various factions? Dm's/devs could give them guidance on what could be included, and the players could work on embelllishing it.

Llew Silverhand · Post by **Llew Silverhand** » Mon May 24, 2004 1:39 am

I second Carr, 'nuff said. lol

Joran · Post by **Joran** » Mon May 24, 2004 9:29 pm

I'm all for it!

Once I'm not so busy I can take some time to tackle this (ironic laugh)

AndrewCarr · Post by **AndrewCarr** » Mon May 24, 2004 9:34 pm

lol, ok. Character dialogues could be a possibility too i guess, i definately noticed typos and bad grammar in an LA job conversation

Perhaps someone with some sort of experience with english grammar(not me for ns4's sake...) could check over all that when you guys get the time.

DrakhanValane · Post by **DrakhanValane** » Mon May 24, 2004 10:13 pm

I'm not exactly an English Major, but I AM a grammar freak. :)

Of course, when you run into any obvious misspellings or botched grammar you should post to the bug tracker. The "Quests/Dialogue" category and Severity "Text" are good for those (severity could be higher if the mess up is misleading/plain wrong).

ATI · Post by **ATI** » Tue May 25, 2004 6:38 pm

damn, and I was hoping to catch DV in some grammatical failure in the last post....

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Tue May 25, 2004 11:00 pm

There is one.

AndrewCarr · Post by **AndrewCarr** » Tue May 25, 2004 11:24 pm

No comma after "Of course" ?

Gil-Este · Post by **Gil-Este** » Tue May 25, 2004 11:46 pm

the comma is fine, there is another nitpicky one though...

Glaran Heckerk · Post by **Glaran Heckerk** » Tue May 25, 2004 11:51 pm

DrakhanValane wrote: The "Quests/Dialogue" category and Severity "Text" are good for those (severity could be higher if the mess up is misleading/plain wrong).

i think its in that sentence- "category and Severity "Text" are good for those..." severity shouldn't be capitalized and there should be something between severity and "text"
is that right or am i extra stupid?

TTG · Post by **TTG** » Tue May 25, 2004 11:55 pm

Severity is a category/name/title so is supposed to be uppercase. The "AM" should not be capitalized, nitpicky because he was using it to convey extra feeling into it.

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Wed May 26, 2004 3:24 am

Yikes - I was just thinking of the capitalization on "Major". As a military title, as in Major Smith, it gets capitalized, but not in describing an English major, unless you're thinking of someone wearing jodhpurs, carrying a crop & a serious piece of lumber up his [censored]...

Yep, "Severity" you could probably get away with, as it is a proper title from a menu. "AM" is OK as stylization (there is a proper grammatical term, but I can't think of it at the moment).

Hey, nitpicking is fun!

(*scan this post to make sure there aren't any mistakes*)

This is going to come back and bite me in the [censored], isn't it?

Agent Shiny · Post by **Agent Shiny** » Wed May 26, 2004 8:43 am

I'm not exactly an English Major, but I AM a grammar freak.

Of course, when you run into any obvious misspellings or botched grammar you should post to the bug tracker. The "Quests/Dialogue" category and Severity "Text" are good for those (severity could be higher if the mess up is misleading/plain wrong).

The "Quests/Dialogue" category and Severity "Text" are ....
I believe it should be
The "Quests/Dialogue" category and the Severity "Text" are
since w/o the, you are saying
The quests category and severity text as one and not a separate identity.
=D

Brennan068 · Post by **Brennan068** » Wed May 26, 2004 8:56 am

You shouldn't use quotation marks unless you are quoting someone. They are not for emphasis; they are used to say that the words are not your own. For example, Agent Shiny said "I believe it should be ... ". But since we have html, we get to use bold and italics to convey emphasis and the pretty blockquote to reference anything anybody else said on the board.

Let's all dive in and trash everybody else's writing, or not.

Monkey Knife Fight · Post by **Monkey Knife Fight** » Wed May 26, 2004 11:48 am

Grammar Whores