Thanks, Daniel. I'd be happy to make the change myself and would if I could, but I really don't know how to do it. I use Mac OS X, so I don't think an .exe solution or .exe tool would work for me.
Roy On Aug 14, 2011, at 1:30 PM, Daniel Heck wrote (in the Oxyd Yahoo Group): > Hi, > > I have followed this discussion the whole time, but I originally did not take > it too seriously because I considered the "over par" message a minor > annoyance at most. But the more I think about it, the more I realize that you > indeed have a good point. To put it bluntly: negative feedback, such as this, > is simply bad game design, and unless the player explicitly asks for > punishment, games should stick to positive reinforcement to motivate players. > For this reason I would encourage Enigma's development team to change the > message in future versions. > > Regarding the problem of "fixing" current versions of Enigma... It's not > overly complicated to build your own version of Enigma if you have at least a > little programming experience; the most difficult aspect will be setting up > the development environment (this is explained in doc/README.mingw32). The > more economical (but messier) solution is to change the message text by > modifying enigma.exe in a hex editor. I feel somewhat bad for even suggesting > this, but if the "over par" message really annoys you, this might be the > easiest route ;) > > Cheers, > Daniel > > On Aug 14, 2011, at Aug 14 - 12:21 , Roy McCoy wrote: > > >> i do not quite understand what you want me to do? > > > > What I wrote before is that it bothers me to get "over par" at the end of > > every level. I would like it to say simply "Level finished!" instead, > > without reminding me every time that I was purportedly too slow in getting > > through the level. I don't want to do them fast, I just want to do them. > > > > I'm not a programmer (or I could presumably do this myself), but looking at > > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/enigma-devel/2010-02/txtwhrPLo5BJw.txt > > there would seem to be two ways to make this change: > > > > 1. Change msgid at #: src/client.cc:823 to "Level finished!" as at #: > > src/client.cc:825. > > > > 2. Change 823 call(s) to 825 call(s). > > > > I of course don't care at all which of these is done or if it's something > > different, as long as "Level finished, but over par!" winds up changed to > > "Level finished!" You could, for example, change "Level finished - better > > than par!" to "Level finished!" as well, though this isn't important to me > > since I'll probably never be under par on any of the levels. > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > Roy McCoy > > Rotterdam, NL > > __._,_.___ > Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New Topic > Messages in this topic (7) > RECENT ACTIVITY: New Members 3 > Visit Your Group > Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use > . > > __,_._,___
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