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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Nov 2012 at 18:35
Oh, and I notice you speak of "multiple merchants guilds". I always cackle at such use of "multiple. It is well-established (i.e. as valid as anything in this lovely creole we speak) but I rather regard "multiple" as the generaliser of "double", "triple" and so on; so a multiple merchant is a double merchant, triple merchant or so on (whatever that might mean) and a multiple guild is a double guild (perhaps of quarrying and masonry), triple guild, etc.; each is a multiple guild and more than one such would be multiple guilds; indeed, several multiple guilds.

The generaliser I'm used to for two (as opposed to double), three (not triple), four and so on is "several" (which, just to be archaic, used to have another meaning we'd now express by "separate", which is how the legalese "jointly and severally" comes about) rather than "multiple". The only "multiple language" I know of is "double-Dutch" (a mythical language even harder to make sense of than Dutch), so that's what I think of when someone claims to speak "multiple languages", although I can only think of this one multiple language.

... but that's just how I use and read the words, I'm not going to claim you're "wrong" to use it that way. I just reserve the right to cackle out loud at the imagery your choice of language conjures up in my warped mind.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Nov 2012 at 18:38
1.5% per lvl of market place, lvl 20 market place = 30%

1% per lvl of 1st trade office = 20%
.5% per lvl of 2nd trade office = 10%
.25% per lvl of 3rd trade office = 5%

Yea I get 65%  but honestly I had no idea what you were you were saying until I did the math myself.  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Nov 2012 at 18:38
DeathDealer89: algebra is my zeroth language - I have an unfortunate tendency to take for granted that readers shall do any math that may be needed, without me having to labour the point. In this case, the target audience is developers; I'm guessing they can cope.

More wording glitches:

Blights claim to act "at this city". Geomancy spells come in sets of three, conferring benefits "to this city", "in another city" and "in any city". It's clear what that means. However, with the exception of Carrigen's Infestation (which says nothing about which city it affects) all the Blights describe themselves as acting "at this city". It might be better to phrase that as "in any city" or "in targeted city" or similar, rather than reusing phrasing that, for geomancy, is clearly used to mean the spell affects the city that casts it - blights would be pretty useless if that were their only use ! (I know it can be beneficial to cast a mild blight on one's own city, affecting a resource of which it has a surplus anyway, to obstruct enemy attempts to blight a critical resource; but this would be valueless if the enemy couldn't cast the blight on my city in the first place, because it's not their city and their cities can only cast the spell on themselves !)

In a mail reporting the outcome of a battle in hilly terrain: "Large hills such as this are difficult for attacking mounted units, but provide opportunities for ranged to unit to show their worth." There's an extra "to" in there.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Nov 2012 at 09:16
Not so much a wording glitch as a communication oddity: on upgrading to sovereignty II, I get two mails:
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From: System
Subject: FW: Further Sovereignty claimed by you at xxx|yyy
Received: 29 Nov 2012 09:01
Original Message:
You have extended your Sovereignty claim at this
location. Your sovereignty will rise, if uncontested, until
it completes levelling up on or around 30NOV12 09:01.

From: System
Subject: FW: Sovereignty claim re-established by you at xxx|yyy
Received: 29 Nov 2012 09:01
Original Message:
You have re-established your Sovereignty claim at this
location. Your sovereignty will rise, if uncontested, until
it completes levelling up on or around 30NOV12 09:01.


Sending two mails to say the same thing is, in any case, silly; but having one of them talk about "re-establishing" a claim makes it sound like that claim was lapsing, or something.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 04 Dec 2012 at 14:27
Trying to claim sov without the research gives the following message

To claim Sovereignty you must (at least) have both the skills <i>Serfs</i>, <i>Landholding</i> and <i>Socage</i> - all of which can be found in the City research category.

Other than the use of 'both' for three research skills, these skills are found in teh Sovereign research category, not the City one.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 04 Dec 2012 at 14:28
Originally posted by Darkwords Darkwords wrote:

found in teh Sovereign research category


At least learn to spell if you are criticising the devs wording...... idiot  Shocked
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 05 Dec 2012 at 22:41
Spotted in a report: " Green Anacondas" but "Yellow Anacodas" (missing 'n').
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 Dec 2012 at 21:03
A fine malapropism in a battle report, on Small Forest terrain:
Quote Bowmen hate it - and even cavalry units have difficulty moving purposefully to attack forested terrain. This is, however, the natural provenance of the footsoldier who excels.

Now go look up "provenance" in a dictionary.
It's where something comes from.
I suspect you meant "province", although it's not quite the word I'd have chosen !

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 Dec 2012 at 22:56
Maybe they meant the best footsoldiers come from wooded areas?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07 Jan 2013 at 03:12
In the Research Discoveries (Eye) page, when a category has no discovery yet, it says so: except that, in the last, it gets the name wrong, reusing the previous one's text verbatim:

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Sovereignty
You have made no Sovereignty technology discoveries
Crafting
You have made no Sovereignty technology discoveries


I suspect a cut-and-paste should have been followed by an edit ...

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