Datalinks upgrade

[Guv’ner]

I hope that line 20 correction you lead with is a typo in the post...

So do I, if I had listed every word I hadn’t changed then the list would be a tad more substantive. I think that in the interest of discontinuity. I’ll edit my above post.

[Buster's Uncle]

Seems like a good idea.

[ete]

Ok, integrated all changes I'd missed into the quickpad versions:

The following is a list of corrections I identified in the 1.3 Version of the GooglyBoogly update (line numbers before each change). I use my own spellchecked version of them with no other changes:
conceptsx.txt

• 20 “engnieering” to “engineering”
• 766 “planetwide” to “planet wide”
• 782 “annoint” to “appoint”

(I had changed this to anoint, using the third definition)
   

[li$i]899 “Noncommital” to “Noncommittal”[/li]
   [li]1342 “millenia” to “millennia”[/li]
   [li]1436 “UN” to “U.N.” to maintain consistency throughout game text[/li]
[/list]

helpx.txt

• 14 “discrepency” to “discrepancy”
• 15 “doesnt” to “doesn’t”
• 18 “repurcussions” to “repercussions”
• 38 “pressume” to “pressure”
• 50 “Cantauri” to “Centauri”
• 52 “Centauro” to “Centauri”
• 57 “dont” to “don’t”
• 613 “Theatres” to “Theaters”
• 1897 “Applique” to “Appliqué”
• 1905 〃
• 1927 〃
• 1948 〃
• 1977 〃

What are the lines with just quotation marks for?

[Guv’ner]

Quite possibly line 782 was meant to read anoint but since it is traditionally used in a religious or semi-religious sense (Bishops anointing divinely appointed monarchs) I chose to interpret the double letter as correct but the letter itself as wrong.

“〃” is a ditto mark indicating that the change is the same as the one above.

[ete]

If it was a standard government position I'd agree with switching to appoint, but considering it's referring to making someone a "Supreme Leader", it seems reasonable to use the likely intended word. And, right, fixed a few more Appliques. Thanks for your changes , if you'd like to make similar minor changes to the documents I'm working on (QikPad versions), then it would be welcome (just note it in the chat there or here 'till history starts working).

[Guv’ner]

I still prefer “appoint” but I think you are probably right that “anoint” was the original intention and I will change it in my update and change the version of that to 1.11. When your update to conceptsx.txt and helpx.txt is complete I can include them in my update and make it version 1.2 or you could look through my other changes and we could combine the two updates together.

[ete]

I've uploaded these to the wiki, which all in all should be a much better place to work on them. You can easily see changes in the history tab.

[Earthmichael]

How can I actually find and install the new files in my SMACX game?

[ete]

I'd advise using googlyboogly's version for now, mine does not have many of the things I plan to add/fix, and I've been not working on it for long enough that I'd want to check my changes over carefully before making an easily accessible version. When I've cleared a few more projects off my to do list I'll make a nice easily downloadable version of this.

[Petek]

I re-stickied GB's thread on CFC until ete's project takes off again.

[BFG]

Could someone post an unmodified helpx.txt (I think that's the correct file)?  I came across a spelling mistake in one of the late Secret Project or Facility descriptions last night, and while for the life of me I can't remember it, I'd know it if I had access to the files.

I don't have an Internet connection at home, so have to post this while I'm at work - when I don't have access to my copy of SMAX

[Guv’ner]

I believe the following links to the unedited version on the wiki:

http://alphacentauri2.info/wiki/index.php?title=Helpx.txt&oldid=363

[BFG]

Thanks!  The (perceived) flaw is on the Universal Translator description:
Two free Technologies on completion.  Any number of Alien Artifcats can be cashed at this base.
I always thought "cashed" should be "cached".  But there are arguments in favor of both.

[Guv’ner]

Both are wrong to my mind. Well spotted. Time to pour a whiskey and adjust my thinking cap.

[Guv’ner]

Page 121 of the Alpha Centauri manual states:

Normally, the network node for any given base can only be linked to a single artifact (the Universal Translator Secret Project is the only exception to this rule—you may link any number of artifacts to it).

[sic]

So “linked” is the word but the sentence needs some work.