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Re: Suggestions for the Blue Planet VA Re-Release (polish + bugfixes)
I like Terrene. I vote for keeping it.

 

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Re: Suggestions for the Blue Planet VA Re-Release (polish + bugfixes)
It's just weird if it's only used once there, nowhere else. The entirety of FS uses "Terran", heck even the rest of the campaign does. It's just this one line that's messed up. The language may have been influcenced, but for sure the word "Terran" wasn't - just witness every single dialogue in FS1, and FS2. I mean, they call themselves the "Galactic Terran-Vasudan Alliance" but they use "Terrene"? :wtf:
WTF?

Sense, it makes none! It's like they're trying to make things more confusing than it needs to be, which is stupid.

For consistency purposes, change it!
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Re: Suggestions for the Blue Planet VA Re-Release (polish + bugfixes)
If it's not used now, why would it be used then?
 
 
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Re: Suggestions for the Blue Planet VA Re-Release (polish + bugfixes)
For consistency purposes, change it!

If for no other reason, I agree. As Snail said, it's bad enough I mistook it for an error. :P
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Re: Suggestions for the Blue Planet VA Re-Release (polish + bugfixes)
And...quoting from the old AoA thread:

I was going to say the same thing. 'Terrene' isn't exactly wrong in this sense, but it is rather like using a sentence like "I would as lief drive the Haywain to town as the Phaeton" in the 21st century.  It made me think of old science fiction novels such as something by E.E. Doc Smith when I saw it here. :)
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Re: Suggestions for the Blue Planet VA Re-Release (polish + bugfixes)
I would as lief drive the Haywain to town as the Phaeton!

 

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Re: Suggestions for the Blue Planet VA Re-Release (polish + bugfixes)
What does that mean, anyway?
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Re: Suggestions for the Blue Planet VA Re-Release (polish + bugfixes)
I think 'as lief' is some sort of preference, like "I'd rather do this than that"

And... maybe they're vehicles... or horses?

 
Re: Suggestions for the Blue Planet VA Re-Release (polish + bugfixes)
A lot more people speak English than French.  Hell, even a lot of French speak English.  If anything, English in the future will have substantial Chinese influence like in Firefly due to the fact that there are a crapload of speakers of Chinese in the world.

Chinese is a bit of an oddity, though. Sure, one in four people on present-day Earth speaks it, but it has very little connection with other common languages. It has a wildly different orthography, phonetic system, grammar, etc. from languages like English and French. And from personal experience I can say that Chinese is incredibly difficult to learn (not to mention inefficient in digital communication), even though I've been hearing it used around the household by family members my whole life. Even though "there are a crapload of [Chinese speakers] in the world" it's more likely that they'll pick up more and more English and other influence, rather than the other way around.

You can definitely see the effects of the huge current Chinese population in BP, though. The Chosen One is of Chinese descent (even though he's never been to Earth or to China), and Sam mentions that there are hundreds of GTVA service members with the last name Bei, even though Bei isn't a very common Chinese name at all in the current world.

 

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A lot more people speak English than French.  Hell, even a lot of French speak English.
Hence only a single french(-like) word on a whole page of english text (or several pages as a matter of fact).

If you think just because more people speak english than german means no german words will ever get into a common Human language, then please tell me why a place were children too young for school are taken care of, while the parents work is called "kindergarten" in english.

Or "Uber"? There is no source of this word in english. It comes form the german Über, but since english layout keyboards lack Ä, Ö and Ü and most people don't want to bother with ASCII codes it become Uber instead.


Also there would be the Tremair (okay, I just realised I don't know how this is spelled correctly....) and the Lebouchere. Those are clearly french-stemming names (even though the british navy did take over the name Tremair at some point in the past.

 

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Re: Suggestions for the Blue Planet VA Re-Release (polish + bugfixes)
Ü is alt+666 :P

It's so easy to remember, I don't know why people don't use it.

Yeah, the word itself is fine, but it looks out of place, it's used in place of another word which is commonly seen (Terran -> it's even in the name of the GTVA), not to mention people think it's a mistake at first glance. That's definitely not good. You can't expect everyone to just know archaic words like that, nor can you expect them to bother looking it up.

That leaves the question - why does it have to be that particular word? I'm sure there are other words you could use to provide a nod to other languages (if you really wanted that), without breaking consistency and worst of all making it look like a mistake!

And it's Temeraire.
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Re: Suggestions for the Blue Planet VA Re-Release (polish + bugfixes)
That leaves the question - why does it have to be that particular word? I'm sure there are other words you could use to provide a nod to other languages (if you really wanted that), without breaking consistency and worst of all making it look like a mistake!

Considering that modern English contains as many words borrowed from French as from Old English, thanks to the Norman conquest of Britain, French influence is already firmly entrenched in BP whether we realize it or not.

 
Re: Suggestions for the Blue Planet VA Re-Release (polish + bugfixes)
is it possible to make the starmap in sol realistically accurate?

 

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Re: Suggestions for the Blue Planet VA Re-Release (polish + bugfixes)
I think we're going to try to avoid that. Sol is going to have nebula backgrounds - the game just looks really lifeless without them.

 

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Re: Suggestions for the Blue Planet VA Re-Release (polish + bugfixes)
Not if you have the milky way as the skybox... :nervous:
Well...it doesn't look completely lifeless and nebulas on top of that would look strange.
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Re: Suggestions for the Blue Planet VA Re-Release (polish + bugfixes)
What i mean is like, constellations, star formations, etc. the view of the stars from sol. You could put some nebula on top of that too. It sounds ridiculously complicated though, and probably shouldn't be attempted unless extremely dedicated.

 

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Re: Suggestions for the Blue Planet VA Re-Release (polish + bugfixes)
Was the issue ever addressed of the Minnow's glowpoints not being deactivated in Journey of a Thousand Miles (I forget which part)?

 

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Re: Suggestions for the Blue Planet VA Re-Release (polish + bugfixes)
This is bound to have been mentioned already but i'm adding it as well cos I just remembered it happening to me too. . . 
 
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Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

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Re: Suggestions for the Blue Planet VA Re-Release (polish + bugfixes)
Was the issue ever addressed of the Minnow's glowpoints not being deactivated in Journey of a Thousand Miles (I forget which part)?

I'm guessing yes after my last playthrough.
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Re: Suggestions for the Blue Planet VA Re-Release (polish + bugfixes)
Not if you have the milky way as the skybox... :nervous:
Well...it doesn't look completely lifeless and nebulas on top of that would look strange.

I'm sure I have suggested that in the past, see this for an example



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