DrKarotte wrote:Like Victoria_La I have made no use of periods, not because I don't like them or because I don't know that a full sentence normally ends with a period, but because I have noticed that BGA game logs usually don't have periods. My aim was to create a game adaption which is as close to the BGA standard as possible. There are worse things than adding periods, though, for example:
I agree with the idea of matching their standard. I haven't been doing this that long, so the first thing I did was dig into a few games and see what others were doing. Interestingly, I saw more with periods than not. It also didn't take long to see who knew what they were doing, and who maybe didn't. And I sort of just took my cue from them, or at least the ones who appeared competent.
Yeah, those are kind of a problem. And I do agree that periods aren't the most important thing in the world. (I really only notice that when it's inconsistent cause that jumps out at me.) But no one should be changing words like that, unless they understand the context and the word usage really is incorrect or awkward. I find it odd that the game only came around yesterday and people have already been through it changing all sorts of strange things. (I was going to try to learn it and get on it, but I'm not quite that fast.) I think it's obvious someone doesn't know the game. Changing a "bluff" to a "successful bluff"???? (That adds meaning that wasn't there. Maybe someone called their bluff.)Changing the sense of a sentence to the opposite ("winner" was changed to "last player"). I don't know why he did this. The sentence belongs to a future game variant not in the list and thus will never appear (ATM), so there is no possibility to check the context.
Changing terms taken from the original rule book, like "Bullseye chef".
Would you like your capitalized Points changed back to capitals? (See, I don't change that sort of thing unless I see inconsistency.) By the way "w/" for "with" is really casual, I think even too casual for a game. I don't think I'd use that. (Of course, it's already been changed.) And if you do use it, it doesn't have a space after it. I need to hurry up and learn this. There's all sorts of inconsistencies in there that are driving me nuts. Like it's mostly present tense but some things have been changed to past, I think not on purpose but while they were changing something else.
That's a good question. I've always wanted to know what happens to the other translations if we change something. But certainly it will mess up a translator who comes along after the change. If they're confused they might ask here.Unfortunately these changed strings show up in the translation for other languages, so when someone does some ugly changes here minutes after the game is online these mistakes may find their way in many other translations?