item naming

[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 ?

[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.)

[Maecius]

Okay, apparently the correct brackets are { }. I've brought this up on the staff forums.

[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

[Karond]

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

[Duster47]

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

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.



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

Closed.