In-Game Typos

[lch]

My pretender is the "Guardian of the Tablets of Destiny". This is supposed to be the "Tablets of Destinies".

[Loren]

A little more complex. Cast Strands of Arcane Power and get feebleminded from it. The message you get from this is quite wrong.

[lch]

Pulling things from page two and following that are still wrong in the game...

Originally Posted by electricmayhem

Site: Villa of Everchanging Fresques
Should be "Villa of Everchanging Frescoes"

I think Fresques is French for Frescoes, so perhaps it's a French magic site.

The site is now named Villa of Ever Changing Fresques.

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Originally Posted by thejeff

The EA Vanheim Huskarls have their descriptions switched.

1508 has spear and javelin, but the description says axe and javelin.
1509 has axe and javelin, but the description says spear and javelin.

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Originally Posted by lch

My pretender is the "Guardian of the Tablets of Destiny". This is supposed to be the "Tablet of Destinies".

Quote from the Wikipedia page that I linked there:

In Mesopotamian mythology, the Tablet of Destinies (not, as frequently misquoted in general works, the 'Tablets of Destiny') was envisaged as a clay tablet...

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Originally Posted by vfb

When designing a pretender and on the main design menu, hilighting "Magic" displays this help text:

Select your Pretender God's skill in the eigth different magic paths

Should be eight.

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Originally Posted by vfb

There's a few more in heroic qualities:

Cruelty: renowened -> renowned, afflicitons->afflictions
Research: extraorinary -> extraordinary
Precision: precison -> precision

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Originally Posted by Digress

The second sentence in the description of the Vine Shield reads

"Anyone in close combat with the bearder will find that the vines on the shield will lash out and try to hold him still."

should probably read

"Anyone in close combat with bearer will find that the vines that make up the shield will lash out and try to hold them still."

[Edi]

lch said:
My pretender is the "Guardian of the Tablets of Destiny". This is supposed to be the "Tablets of Destinies".

I presume you meant "Tablet of Destinies"?

[vfb]

Individually named mercenaries are hired and fired with "have" instead of "has", eg:

"The Boar Mage have been bought..."

and:

"The Boar Mage have left us...

[lch]

Edi said:
I presume you meant "Tablet of Destinies"?

yeah yeah

[vfb]

Some units are pluralized incorrectly in the scouting descriptions.

#1689, Warrior of the Deep, is described as:

"The army consists of mainly Warrior of the Deeps."

That should probably be:

"The army consists of mainly Warriors of the Deep."

[Edi]

vfb, that's a function of how the scouting reports work. They just extract the unit name from somewhere else and add the plural s to the end. So anything that has a unit name of "x of y" is going to get reported as "z number of x of ys" instead of "z number of xs of y".

You could get it to work correctly, but that would require there to be a text list of name plurals for each unit and they would need to be linked so that it picks the name from the plural list instead of just retrieving the basic unit name.

It's probably doable, but it's a crapload of work for very little actual gain compared to many of the other unresolved issues (citadel battle graphics and other stuff in the shortlist).

[vfb]

Agreed! It's a very minor issue, I just thought I'd document it.

And there is some other-than-add-an-s pluralization code, since in the case of units which are a "man", eg #928 Heavy Footman, the code does pluralize it correctly as Heavy Footmen. The code probably just looking for "man" at the end of the string or something like that. It could also search for " of ", to move the 's'.

[MaxWilson]

Heh. On my mission in the Philippines, some missionaries would consistently refer to "Book of Mormons," ("We're running low on Book of Mormons") which drove other grammatically-inclined missionaries up the wall. "It's 'Books of Mormon!'" they would insist. Never did convince anyone to change their habits.

Americans are lazy about pluralization anyway. For instance, nobody ever says something like "There're two guys here to see you, Bob." It's always "There's two guys..."

-Max