jkk wrote:Okay, wading through this, just editing the description column B. (I've worked on modding before, so I know not to just randomly screw with things.) Preliminary observations:
1) This can be handled at two levels of editing. One can either just correct the most blatant errors (the stuff that sounds like Borat). Or one could recast about half the sentences. I honestly don't have the time or energy to do that, so it'll have to be just the most blatant errors.
2) Some of these leaders I have never heard of and can't find any clear references to. I'm hiliting those so I can ask about them here. Unless I can find independent reference to a leader, clearly I can't be confident how his name is spelled.
3) Does column B have a char limit one can bump up against? Obviously it would get awkward with unit or leader names, and just as obviously, there's some limit to scenario text or they wouldn't have broken them up in multiple pieces.
1) OK
2) OK. Remember that spelling didn't even begin to be standardized until Webster wrote his book. And names? In the US an immigrant family could end up with several spellings depending on which agent interviewed them at Ellis Island!!!!
3) {you're going to hate this answer} It depends!
I'm not sure what the 'hard code limit' is, but the 'display limit' is set by where each string gets used:
For each 'group' of strings, let the existing ones serve as a guide [don't exceed length of any in that group]
By group, I mean for example:
'evt_nam_xxxxx' [the text that appears in the 'turn log' report numbered 1, 2, etc.]
'evt_txt_xxx' [the full text 'stores' you see whn a reported event is highlighted in red]
etc. etc.
You're on the right track! Soon you'll be another 'mad modder'