FfH2 0.34 Cosmetic Issues

[[to_xp]Gekko]

I second AMBusam request, that would be pretty nice

 

[DemonMaster]

Red blob in the barb city.

PS
Wouldn't that be good to have a list of already reported "cosmetic" issues, just as xienwolf's in the bug thread? I am aware that cosmetic bugs aren't the most hot bugs to hunt but could be good so we don't post issues over and over.

 

[MiKa523]

Kind of belongs in here I guess:

Can you maybe decrease the cloud effect around Auric?
It becomes rather annoying.
The clouds lag and occlude parts of the map, if you are nearby, which is the case, when you wander arround with a stack including Auric.

 

[Silmeran]

I was wondering is it possible to return AC graphics to an old style (star with number in center on top right of the screen). If it can be done by changing some configs I'm kindly ask for a tip.

 

[Annex]

I think the Hippus war elephant graphic still hasnt been fixed.

 

[Jenaelha]

After taking the Timor Mask icon the unit promotion window shows a staff icon rather than the mask. The Civlopedia entry has a staff icon rather than the mask icon also.

Green TXT_KEY_MESSAGE_LAIR_EMPTY message when opening my second treasure chest.

 

[The Doc]

Some stuff I encountered in the game text XML:

TXT_KEY_CIV_BALSERAPHS_SHORT_DESC
Spanish tags just hold three spaces instead of "Balseraphs".

TXT_KEY_CIV_BANNOR_PEDIA
"ErebC756C741C712C744us" found in the text.

TXT_KEY_CIV_KURIOTATES_PEDIA
"[PARAGRAPG:1]" (the first in the text) instead of "[PARAGRAPH:1]".

TXT_KEY_EVENT_MURDERED_WIFE_4 and TXT_KEY_EVENT_WEREWOLF_3
Spanish text has ">" at the beginning (by accident, I guess).

TXT_KEY_MEMORY_SOMNIUM
The tag has a quotation mark at the end.

TXT_KEY_SPELL_PILLAR_OF_FIRE_PEDIA
French tags just hold a couple of spaces instead of the actual (English) text.

TXT_KEY_UNIT_ROSIER_PEDIA
"behindC3505C3500C3496C3499C3506" found in the text.

 

[Marnok]

A cosmetic request:

Would it be possible to have trait details pop-up on a mouse-over when selecting a new trait for an Adaptive civ? I sometimes forget everything each one affects.

Seconded! Or thirded. I'm always trying to find an online reference (or just getting lazy and going for "financial" because money is usually good)

 

[The Doc]

A cosmetic request:

Would it be possible to have trait details pop-up on a mouse-over when selecting a new trait for an Adaptive civ? I sometimes forget everything each one affects.

Seconded! Or thirded. I'm always trying to find an online reference (or just getting lazy and going for "financial" because money is usually good)

I too brought this up some time ago (for 0.33, IIRC) and would still like to see it ingame.

 

[mahazel]

When Ilians cast their world spell therer is no message about it. It is weird when all your productions is stoped, your incomes are cut, and you don`t know what happened.

 

[rusty217]

When Ilians cast their world spell therer is no message about it. It is weird when all your productions is stoped, your incomes are cut, and you don`t know what happened.

Above the score list is a counter of how long your production will be stopped for, that should work as a pretty good indicator...

 

[The Doc]

The hover text for the button that toggles the manabar remains English although I translated it.

 

[retro V]

2 things:
Start as grigori civ and there's a line break missing after civ trait...
Get an enraged unit trapped in a cage and he will "displace" but still be held away from the cage after he turns barb.

Missing a linebreak here as well:

 

[BeefontheBone]

Battlemaster startegy tip (on mouseover in the build orders menu) has "roll" where it should say "role".

 

[Lark]

I am using Foxit Reader to view the manual. Unlike Adobe, it doesn’t hang my system or try to get me to install malware. It does have some problems (e.g., the down arrow key or mouse wheel scrolls down from the top of page 5 to the bottom of page 5 to the top of page... 4).
It has no internal spell-check nor any way to export to a format that I can spell-check, so this list was amassed entirely by eye. I am mostly not reporting revisions from FfH .33 to .34, dead links, missing data, grammatical errors, oddly-arranged and -punctuated sentences or Inconsistent Capitalization. I had intended to note some missing words I ran across (er... didn’t) when I was reading up on civ strategies, but can’t find them now I’m looking.

First, a complaint about readability. I have a 21" monitor running at 1280x1024. “Fit Page” (87%) gives me an onscreen image that’s almost exactly 8½ x 11". It’s too hard to read the colored text at that level of magnification and I expect it’s worse for people without 20/20 vision. In particular, there are three colors - a fluorescent light green, a fluorescent light blue and a light tan - which are very nearly the same brightness as the background. This is basic bad design; please use dark colors that contrast with the background. Also, your lines are over 120 characters long. Books, blogs, mags, newspapers - they all run from a little over 60 to a little under 40 characters wide because that format is easier to read. Please use columns.

Spoiler :

Page 4, paragraph 5, line 2 (4.5.2) all one step –> one step
6.2.3 each slave cage ?–> each type of slave cage
6.3.2 through the rank –> through the ranks
6.3.4 desireable –> desirable
11.3.2 neigh –> nigh
14.2.3 any Leader –> any rival Leader
17.3.1 game in an –> game is an
17.5.2 that it about –> that is about
17.5.3 recieve –> receive
20.2.2 withdraw chances ?–> withdrawal chances
20.2.3 borders –> territory
20.4.2 neigh –> nigh
22.1.3 form their own ?–> run their own
22.5.3 opponets –> opponents
25.4.1 hightened –> heightened
29.1.3 Infernals –> Infernal’s
29.2.3 Civlization –> Civilization
32.2.2 various levels in it ?–> a level
34, column 2, box 2 Bombar –> Bombard
36.2.4 sieze control –> seize control
38.c1.b3 Recieve –> receive
38.c1.b4 Recieve –> receive
39.3.3 maximize...other ?–> minimize the distance between them
39.4.1 truely –> truly
39.4.2 Searfaring –>Seafaring
42.2.4 producing –> produces
42.4.1 strength –> attack strength
45.2.5 nit –> unit
45.6.2 desireable –> desirable
45.6.3 gains is –> gain is
52.1.3 time on creation –> Creation
54.c1.b1 Brone –> Bronze
55.3.2 frequent –> frequently
55.5.1 factor –> factors
55.5.5 cummulative –> cumulative
58.1.1 Shades, men –> Men
58.2.5 severly –> severely
58.5 -The xp discussion forgets Form of the Titan.
67.2 -I am missing the background to understand parts of this paragraph. What council? What is “temporance”? The OED says it’s an obsolete form of temperance, which means moderation. Um... what?
67.3.3 it’s own sake –> its own sake
70 -It should be Octopus Underlords, I say . Surely the natural masters are Those Below?
73.1.4 which –> and
73.2.3 psycological –> psychological
73.2.3 seccular –> secular
73.3.1 adherant –> adherent
73.3.1 anysort –> any sort
73.6 -I don’t understand. Does the 20% chance change as other religions are adopted? Or may a unit only have one religion? -Except it says “adopt the religions”.
82.1.2 consol ?–> consultation
82.3.1 illumintation –> illumination
82.4.2 Emperyean –> Empyrean
82.4.3 Emperyean –> Empyrean
82.4.4 tendancy –> tendency
85.1.1 elder ?–> eldest
~~ No Guilds now; Guild mistakes omitted. ~~
102.c2.b3 Dragon’s Horde –> Dragon’s Hoard
102.c2.b3 Units –> melee units
103.c1.b6 Orthus’s Axe (2x) –> Orthus’ Axe
106.c2.b3 Recieve –> receive
106.c2.b4 Recieve –> receive
124.c2.b4 Brone –> Bronze
128 -Doesn’t Caminus Aureus mean Golden Road? I was expecting something like MoM’s Enchant Road; certainly not Weaponsmiths.
131.c1.b6 Dragon’s Horde –> Dragon’s Hoard
131.c1.b6 Units –> melee units
-Why does Theatre get spelt Brit while ‘most everything else is spelled American?
177.c1 Pristinus Pass –> Pristin Pass
177.c2.b3 Pristinus Pass –> Pristin Pass
201.s2.2 -The maximum AC calculation here gives a value incompatible with my current game.
-s denotes section immediately above and hereafter
201.s2.2.3 maxumum –> maximum
201.s2.3.1 players –> players’
201.s2.3.2 players –> players’
202.s1.1.6 leader –> leaders
202.s1.1.7 anyone but –> everyone but
202.s4.1.2 in a time –> in a tile
202.s4.3.1 arsenal’s –> arsenals
202.s5.1.3 Dragon of Fear –> Dragon or Fear
203.s3.2.1 expereince –> experience
203.s4.2.2 Pheonix –> Phoenix
204.s2.1.8 distasters –> disasters
206.s1.2.2 to limiting –> too limiting
206.s3.2.2 the State –> a Priest of the State
206.s3.2.3 Priest –> type of Priest
206.s3.5.3 Spells ?–> Summonings
206.s3.5.4 allow...safe –> allowing...safer
207.s1.1.3 a Unitcombat ?–> combat strength
207.s1.2 -A demand from authority to act or appear is called a summons, plural summonses. I think a summoned being should be called a summoning, plural summonings, but must admit my dictionaries (and Internet dic.s) are little support, since they avoid that sense of the word.
207.s1.2.8 nomral –> normal
208.s1.2 -I suggest you note that the Metamagic 2 spell Dispel Magic allows players to build one Tower at a time with relatively few nodes owned.
208.s2.2 -The last sentence (Access to Iron...) is redundant with the previous paragraph.
208.s3.1.4 Werewolf –> Blooded Werewolf
208.s3.1.5 Werewolf defeat –> Blooded Werewolf defeats
208.s3.1.5 With all werewolves they –> All werewolves
208.s4.2.2 all of the...generally –> the...generally
209.s2.1.1 posess –> possess
209.s2.1.1 UnitCombats ??–> factors
209.s2.1.1 UnitCombat ?–> combat strength
213.3.2 cardd –> card
213.3.3 the bank –> your bank
213.5.1 you opponent –> your opponent


P.S. I started with the manual because it’s better-spelled and easier to read than the Civilopedia (all those itty bitty sub-panes). (Better-punctuated or -capitalized...not so much.) I might check Hints next - any preferences? Wait! -Guilds!

P.P.S. Fawns are baby deer - wee spindly spotted things.
Fauns are goat-men; minor woods deities.
The Fonz is a “cool” TV character.
Now, look at what FfH calls a Fawn. Which is it?

P3.S. Nay?
Neigh
Whinny
Whiney
Whimpery
“...ends Not with a bang, but...”
“The end is...”
Nigh
Neigh

 

[Keeper_GFA]

Animals stop spawning if their are a certain amount of cities on the map.

Quote from Kael in the bug thread, but this should probably be in the manual and the civilopedia somewhere.

 

[Kael]

Quote from Kael in the bug thread, but this should probably be in the manual and the civilopedia somewhere.

We typically don't document base Civ4 functionality, we have enough work just documenting our stuff.

 

[Keeper_GFA]

Sorry. I guess that since animals are so trivial in vanilla, it's not an issue that they stop spawning.

 

[mindlar]

The text description for the Bane Divine ritual in the Civilopedia states that all disciple units are turned into level 1 prophets. However there is no prophet entry in the Civilopedia.

 

[Keeper_GFA]

Mouseover (and civilopedia) for the Heal spell says that it heals all units in the tile. It appears to only heal living units. Tested with Sphener who can heal other units but not himself.

Edit: Sheaim appear to get no benefit from the Rage technology or the Bear Totem building but they can still build it.