Notice about unit descriptions

Sofronius · Post by **Sofronius** » November 11th, 2003, 9:00 am

Dear fellow translators (:)),
I would like to notice, that all unit abilities ("leadership", "skirmisher" , etc). should be explained in descriptions of units that have them.
And at the moment it's the ONLY place where user can get information about abilities.

See :
http://wesnoth.whitevine.net/forum/phpB ... highlight=

Unit descriptions should be translated with respect to this fact.

skovbaer · Post by **skovbaer** » November 13th, 2003, 2:11 am

I think we should stick to not uncovering too much detailed information and numbers as Dave says...

Sofronius · Post by **Sofronius** » November 13th, 2003, 10:41 am

skovbaer wrote:I think we should stick to not uncovering too much detailed information and numbers as Dave says...

Yes, I agree with that. We should write just information that english users are able to get from english description.

But we should be aware that users will search for information about abilities in descriptions, so I had posted that notice

DragonLord · Post by **DragonLord** » November 15th, 2003, 10:37 pm

Maybe we should just have the unit abilities listed in the manual...

methinks · Post by **methinks** » November 26th, 2003, 9:05 pm

I do not see sense in covering all this information. Not to mention that such things as 'intelligent', 'resilient' or 'loyal' are not described even in unit's descriptions. I mean yeah, we can leave some mystery but not to this point. Not only users don't know which unit to choose when upgrading, but also they can be unsure about what they actually do when they already have them (before I've read about leadership I couldn't figure out what in fact is it affecting).

skovbaer · Post by **skovbaer** » November 26th, 2003, 9:10 pm

methinks wrote:I do not see sense in covering all this information. Not to mention that such things as 'intelligent', 'resilient' or 'loyal' are not described even in unit's descriptions. I mean yeah, we can leave some mystery but not to this point. Not only users don't know which unit to choose when upgrading, but also they can be unsure about what they actually do when they already have them (before I've read about leadership I couldn't figure out what in fact is it affecting).

But still, this would be one of the things that make the difference between an untrained player and a skilled player... A skilled player will have found out about all those things by himself... If an untrained player plays the game for a while he/she will also figure out which ability affects what and so on...

Post by **Dave** » December 3rd, 2003, 5:32 am

methinks wrote:I do not see sense in covering all this information. Not to mention that such things as 'intelligent', 'resilient' or 'loyal' are not described even in unit's descriptions. I mean yeah, we can leave some mystery but not to this point. Not only users don't know which unit to choose when upgrading, but also they can be unsure about what they actually do when they already have them (before I've read about leadership I couldn't figure out what in fact is it affecting).

The traits ('intelligent', 'resilient', etc) are now displayed in the manual.

I am looking into ways to make unit abilities clearer.

David