[Freeciv-Dev] [bug #21710] Add inspirational descriptions or quotes to each technology in ruleset

[Jarkko Huttunen]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #21710 (project freeciv):

This should be implemented to later releases. Civ2 type entry for new
discoveries would make following the advancement of your civilization, and so
the gameplay, much easier and intriguing.

Generic "discovered x researching y goal is z" - messages feel total
understatements with advances.

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[Freeciv-Dev] [bug #21710] Add inspirational descriptions or quotes to each technology in ruleset

[Emmet Hikory]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #21710 (project freeciv):

The generated messages mentioned in comment #1 are probably more properly the
domain of bug #14210, whereas this is more about additional static text to be
presented for each technology.

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[Freeciv-Dev] [bug #21710] Add inspirational descriptions or quotes to each technology in ruleset

[Jacob Nevins]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #21710 (project freeciv):

> I always liked the railroad message ...
Patch #4405 discusses a problem we're about to have with the railroad message.
Perhaps it's of interest to your goals too.

> Further, we could concider adding images to each tech to be 
> shown as well. [...] Images are already there..
Indeed, they are, but underused -- you only ever see them in the help.

> And a generated message of "You can now build this and 
> that and foo and bar ...".
I have some vague thoughts on how we can improve the built-in autogenerated
help with hyperlinks, which might help with this too. I should find time to
write them up.

> Now I want to make a suggestion for the realisation. This is to 
> provide a form of default 'inspirational descriptions'. This is 
> because most rulesets have a large set of common techs and 
> you'll end up put the same descriptions everywere. Also, the 
> slightest difference between rulesets bring these texts two- or 
> multifold in the translation file. 
This problem isn't unique to these messages, though -- we have to work quite
hard to make existing ruleset descriptions not diverge unnecessarily across
the many rulesets we ship. So I don't think we should invent some new solution
just for one aspect of rulesets.

I'm strongly inclined not to try to solve that problem by having pools of
strings, meaning we have to think up names for each string -- something the
gettext approach to i18n avoids, which I'm rather glad of.
Rather, I'd prefer to investigate ways to make discrepancies more obvious --
some check that developers (and maybe ruleset editors) can run to see if
they've introduced new divergent strings, reports on strings indexed by
similarity, that sort of thing.
For instance, I've vaguely wondered about freeciv-ruledit being able to flag
how many translations are available in currently loaded localisations for the
currently entered string in an edit box (and maybe suggest similar strings?)

(The inspirational messages sound like a bit of an l10n nightmare to me. Also,
we're not going to be able to get Leonard Nimoy
 to read them out for us. Maybe RMS? <--
JOKE)

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[Freeciv-Dev] [bug #21710] Add inspirational descriptions or quotes to each technology in ruleset

[Christian Knoke]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #21710 (project freeciv):

And a generated message of "You can now build this and that and foo and bar
...".

This one is "for free", so the inspirational text can focus on something
beyond. I always liked the railroad message ... (besides the formatting is
wrong).

Images are already there..

Now I want to make a suggestion for the realisation. This is to provide a form
of default 'inspirational descriptions'. This is because most rulesets have a
large set of common techs and you'll end up put the same descriptions
everywere. Also, the slightest difference between rulesets bring these texts
two- or multifold in the translation file.




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[Freeciv-Dev] [bug #21710] Add inspirational descriptions or quotes to each technology in ruleset

[Andreas Rosdal]

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 Summary: Add inspirational descriptions or quotes to each
technology in ruleset
 Project: Freeciv
Submitted by: andreasr
Submitted on: Sun Feb 23 09:18:46 2014
Category: rulesets
Severity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - Normal
  Status: None
 Assigned to: None
Originator Email: 
 Open/Closed: Open
 Release: 
 Discussion Lock: Any
Operating System: None
 Planned Release: 

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Details:

I suggest we add support for some inspirational descriptions or quotes to each
technology in the ruleset. This text could be displayed in the research dialog
once the technology has been fully researched. Further, we could concider
adding images to each tech to be shown as well.




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