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item naming

Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 10:31 am
by Theodore01
Deployed resorting of 6000+ items - some are marked for Deleting. If you find/see one you believe is essential, send item name to Duster47 via PM.
First off i was just running the 'Merchant's league dues' quest when i noticed that item here.
(old inactive quest item) Merchant's league dues

That quest is still working, so do not delete that item. :!:



Overall i don't like the naming scheme at all.
Finding items that start with (....) item name is so immersion-breaking for me.

examples:
the green empty (leather armor) leather armor
(studded leather) umber hulk studded leather +2
(gloves) gauntlets of crushing
(crossbow heavy) arbalist,lesser
(kama claw right) flesh carver
(arrow) arrow of dispelling

I can see that someone put a lot of time in sorting/renaming all these items and i'm thankful for doing that.

Maybe anyone has any ideas how to improve that naming scheme ?

Re: item naming

Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 10:46 am
by Maecius
I think if we replace the ( ) with [ ], the identifying text should be invisible to players (but visible to DMs, who would get the most use out of such markings). Or maybe it's < >?

Anyone toolset savvy enough to confirm which is the right punctuation/code?

I suspect these marks weren't intended to be visible to players, but I could be wrong. (The item organization was primarily meant to make life easier on DMs.)

Re: item naming

Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 1:34 pm
by Maecius
Okay, apparently the correct brackets are { }. I've brought this up on the staff forums.

Re: item naming

Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 3:09 pm
by Lockonnow
well people can name the item what ever they like you dont dump the stuff if it is a epic item then you just name it

Re: item naming

Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 4:26 pm
by Karond
Theodore01 wrote: I can see that someone put a lot of time in sorting/renaming all these items and i'm thankful for doing that.
Ouch, sorry for that. I was the one that went through all of those thousands of items. I guess Maecius solution is the only one. It was done that way mainly to sort items for the DMs, not to be visible to the players :lol: :o

Re: item naming

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 8:33 am
by Duster47
Karond wrote:
Theodore01 wrote: I can see that someone put a lot of time in sorting/renaming all these items and i'm thankful for doing that.
Ouch, sorry for that. I was the one that went through all of those thousands of items. I guess Maecius solution is the only one. It was done that way mainly to sort items for the DMs, not to be visible to the players :lol: :o
Yeah, this was the point, though used wrong style bracketing symbols.

I submitted a punishment work order to lock Karond's account until all 5000+ items are re-visited. :o

;)

We know. Low priority. Will get to it probably in smaller batches. Until then ignore it and enjoy the other features of BGTSCC.

Closed.