All of the spelling and gramatical errors I could find by scanning the text files of Beta 3E.

Here are some more:

In the file "CoreModules.SBMODULE" -

In the definition for "SBMOD 8 AutomatedFactory"
in the description text "... run completly by nanobotS, ..." should read "... run completely by nanobots, ..."

In the definition for "SBMOD 15 ExtrationCenterZeta"
in the description text "... is the pinicle of ..." should read "... is the pinnacle of ..."

In the definition for "SBMOD 20 Maximizer" -
in the description text "A huge round the clock ..." should read either "A huge around the clock ..." or "A huge 'round the clock ..."

In the definition for "SBMOD 25 AdvancedShielding" -
in the description text "... creates a Electromagnetic ..." should read "... creates an Electromagnetic ..."

In the definition for "SBMOD 26 Barriers" -
in the description text "... back on the attacker." should read "... back at the attacker." -

In the definition for "SBMOD 28 LightningShield" -
in the description text "... give sting ..." should read "... give a sting ..."

Next post, "CoreShips.SHIP".

How about the underwater research domes event and "interfear [sic] with their way of life"

'Question: Is there a problem with using apostrophies? I am seeing a HUGE number of places where contractions and possesives don't have them.'

Single quotes do have a special meaning in a number of programming languages. An apostrophe would be mistaken as a single quote in those languages.

I couldn't tell you if that's actually the problem here or not though.

Thanks!

"Single quotes do have a special meaning in a number of programming languages. An apostrophe would be mistaken as a single quote in those languages.

I couldn't tell you if that's actually the problem here or not though."

True, although a lot languages also provide the ability to escape them so that they can be used.

I missed that one. Good catch. I am just scanning with my eyes rather than using a spell checker. Spell checkers are not that good in spotting grammatical errors.

In file "CoreShips.SHIP"

In the definition "SHIP ColonyShip" -
in the description text "... tend to slower than average." should read "... tend to go slower than average."


In the definition "SHIP Decoration" (if it matters)
in the description "... cant ..." should be "... can't ..."

In the file "earthworms.EVENT" Why is this file here? It duplicates a definition in file "Events.EVENT". There are a number of other "*.EVENTS" files that are in the same situation, so I will not be looking at them.

In the file "english.str"

The line starting "[HelpHumanWar] " - "... our destiny goes and in hand with ..." should read "... our destiny goes hand in hand with ..."
The line starting "[WarMessage_altarian] " --- "... we have in common, prepare to become ..." the comma should be a period and should read "... we have in common. Prepare to become ..."
The line starting "[WarMessage_yor_good] " at the end (the last sentence) - "... your species must go extinct." should read "... your species must become extinct."
The line starting "[Surrender_Message_War_Humans_Short] " - we know that it is futile to resist you, we have decided to surrender to you." should read "... we know that it is futile to resist you. We have decided to surrender to you."
The line starting "[Gov0Good}" - second sentence - "... unlikely to sepearate from your ..." should read "... unlikely to separate from your ..."
The line starting "[StoryLost] " - second sentence - "... theirs' was a race ..." should read "... theirs was a race ....".
The line starting "[StoryMilitaryVictory]" - third sentence "Their score is one that most likely be logged ..." should read "Their score is one that will most likely be logged ...".
The line starting "[StoryCulturalDefeat]" - fourth sentence "Who is to say one what day our ..." should read "Who is to say what day our ..." - the fifth sentence is fragmented - perhaps "That our philosophies, views on life ..." should read "Our philosophies, views on life ..."
The line starting "[Description2]" - sentence one "... searched by vessels to that race." should read "... searched by vessels belonging to that race."
The line starting "[Description6]" - second sentence "... compitition ..." should be spelled "... competition ..."
The line starting "[ColonyShipEvil]" - first sentence - "Too keep the sniveling ..." should read "To keep the sniveling ..."
The lines starting "[SurveyGood]", "[SurveyNeutral]", and "[SurveyEvil]" have text that duplicate the lines about colony ships and do not reflect the survey ships they seem to be intended for.
The line starting "[AnomalyDescription5]" - "... Somehting spooky." should read "... Something spooky."
The line starting "[PreElectionParagraph]" - "... Having your party in control meens civilization ..." shoudl read "... Having your party in control means civilization ...".
The line starting "[GovVoteParagraph]" - first sentence "... together to determine wether or not ..." should read "... together to determine whether or not ..."
The line starting "[ChangeGov]" - "... were tallied, to has been ..." should read "... were tallied, it has been ...".
The line starting "[1_Message]" - "... likely to be in orbit of yellow ..." should read "... likely to be in the orbit of yellow ..."

To continue with file "english.str":

The line starting "[4_Message]" - I am uncomfortable with the third sentence which reads "Our population begins to grow in fear." I am uncertain as to how to improve it. Perhaps "The fear of our population continues to grow."?
The line starting "[7_Message]" - The third sentence - "Given their one could describe their ..." should read "Given that one could describe their ...".
The line starting "[8_Message]" - the second sentence "... part of cluster of comets." should read "... part of a cluster of comets."

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In file "GCImps.IMP" -----

In the definition for "IMPROVEMENT HabitatImprovement" -
In the description text "... facility for full blown biological recreation." something needs to be done to ensure the destinction between re-creation (to create again) and recreation (pleasurable activities, like sports, etc.). Sadly the use of hyphens is loosing favor in the english language, but I still like the use of them, so I suggest changing this text to read "... facility for full blown biological re-creation."

In the definition for "IMPROVEMENT NeuralNet"
In the description text "The combined bringpower of our leading ..." should read "The combined brain power of our leading ..."
----- With all of the definitions with description text starting with ""Life is better with the ..." I suspect this file really isn't ready for spelling and grammer review.

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In the file "GCResources.RESOURCE" -

In the definition for "RESOURCE 4 HappyGas"
I feel the definition text needs something to point out that it improves the morale for all of your planets, such as "This resource will boost the morale of your entire population."

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In file "GCTech.TECH"

In the definition for "TECH 1 UniversalTranslator"
The description refers to "Dr. Edmund Phrinck" as being from someplace called "New Capital City". Is this a remnant of GC/OS2?

In the definition for "TECH 7 Diplomacy"
In the description text - In the second sentence "... alien races we learned uncovered evidence ..." should read "... alien races we uncovered evidence ..."
In the description text sentences three through five seem to relate more to alliances than the UP. Only sentences one, two and six seem to belong here.

In the definition for "TECH 5 Photons"
In the overview text "... this technology will allow open up other ..." should read "... this technology will open up other ..."

In the definition for "TECH 12 Drones"
The description text and overview text seem to be at odds with each other. One talks about limited attacks, the other of monitoring.

In the definition for "TECH 9 Shields"
The description text is very fragmentated. I suggest it read "Dr. Brakham Nordstrom, inspired by an attending the a retro-theme party whose theme was based on old television series from the 20th century, was hit with a brainstorm on how deflector technology could be extended to more effectively block different types of energy. With inverted tachyon pulses used in a steady stream virtually all the output of energy weapons could be blocked, if only for a short period of time. This observation led to his company, General Dynometrics, which won the majority of Planetary Defense contracts, despite the fact the company went bankrupt before any of subsequent research could be completed."

In the definition for "TECH 31 PlanetaryDefense"
In the overview text - third sentence - "... are partially discharged by the fields ..." should read "... are partially dispersed by the fields ...".

In the definition for "TECH 4 ColdFusion"
In the description text - sentence sevem "... high neutron flux that eventually turned he containment vessel ..." should read "... high neutron flux that eventually turned he containment vessel ...".

In the definition for "TECH 40 ImpulseDrive"
In the description text fails to take the startup screen speed bonus into consideration. For example sentence four, which reads "A colony ship now moves at the rate of 2 parsecs per year.". Also sentence five ends "... is doubled for a colony ship.".
In the description text sentence five - "... mass of the ship along with near by mass concentration ..." should read "... mass of the ship along with nearby mass concentration ..."

In the definition for "TECH 41 Antimatter"
In the description text sentence three - "... cold fusion over came the containment ..." should read "... cold fusion overcame the containment ...".
In the overview text "... generate and control Anti Matter, ..." should read "... generate and control antimatter, ...".

In the definition for "TECH 38 GeneticMapping"
In the overview text "... Michigan University now close ..." should read "... Michigan University are now close ..."

In the definition for "TECH 65 MasterRace"
The overview text second and third sentences are fragmented. Perhaps it would read better if it read ""The time has come to create a better human, one that will be able to crush our enemies and exterminate the weak. This will improve our soldiers and production"
The description text in the last sentence, "feti" is a prefix, not a word.

In the definition for "TECH 25 AntimatterWeapons"
In the description text "... time before anti-matter was developed ..." should read "... time before antimatter was developed ..."

More tomorrow.

'In the definition for "EVENT SuffocatedBeasts" ("Suffocated Beasts") -
in the description text ".. beasts are unconfrentational, ..." should read "... beasts are unconfrontational, ..." (already reported elsewhere, included here for consolidation purposes.)'

Also, 'nonconfrontational' would probably be better than 'unconfrontational.'

'In the definition for "EVENT CatchEmAll" ("Catch Em All") -
in the text for eviloption - "wellbeing" should be two words "well being" or hiphenated "well-being". '

The hyphenated 'well-being' is not commonly accepted English. 'Well being' would be best.

'The line starting "[HelpHumanWar] " - "... our destiny goes and in hand with ..." should read "... our destiny goes hand in hand with ..." '

This is valid English, albet very uncommon. It would probably be best to make the suggested change.

This next comment isn't a spelling/grammar error, but this thread seems to be the best place to put it:

'In file "GCImps.IMP" -----'

Also in this file, Re-education center incorrectly has the header 'IMPROVEMENT SecretPolice' which is the improvement above it.

'In the definition for "TECH 65 MasterRace" '

'The description text in the last sentence, "feti" is a prefix, not a word.'

If that's the one I think it is, it is correct. The secondarly plural form of fetus is feti. 'Fetuses' would probably be better though.

'In the file "earthworms.EVENT" Why is this file here? It duplicates a definition in file "Events.EVENT". There are a number of other "*.EVENTS" files that are in the same situation, so I will not be looking at them.'

As for these files, they were the event files from beta 2, and should probably be deleted. Beta 3 moved all of the events into the Events.EVENT file.

I think that the punctuation errors are just typos.

It turns out that other files DO have apostrophes in them, so my question about them to SD is answered.

An aside about text scanners. Any GOOD text scanner will have a way of allowing the user to specify that the use of a character that the scanner considers an operator of some sort or as the start of a variable is to be considered a deliberate attempt to have that character in the resultant text. Some of the characters I have seen used by scanners for special purposes are quote signs, ampersigns, and apostrophes (sometimes called "single quotes"). With what I have seen in the GC text files, it appears that the back slash and percent sign are additional cases. I have seen two methods of allowing a user to specify to the scanner that such a character is intended to be in the resultant text instead of being used as an operator or the start of a variable. One method is doubling the character, which appears to be what the GC text scanner uses, as exemplified by the doubled percent signs in some of the text files. Another method I have seen is variable substitution, that is, the scanner provides variables, such as "e or &apost by the scanner for these cases. Some scanners use both methods.

In any case, I was trying to understand why the text files were missing so many apostrophes in ownership cases and contractions, which had to do with the SPECIFIC scanner SD was using for GC. Since I have found files that have apostrophes in them that I have seen show up faithfully in the game I am now confident that the scanner accepts an apostrophe as just an apostrophe.

About the duplications of the masses of *.EVENT files, there are a large number of them that have been here since WAY before beta 2. The "events.EVENT" file is fairly new and is obviously a consolidation of the others. This has caused problems in the past (the "starhawk.SHIP" file problem in an earlier build, for instance). There are at least two possibilities for why they are still here, both of which SD knows. One is that they forgot to remove them from the library from which the downloads are created (I am not quite sure how this works, but they have had some glitches in this area). The other is that the files were still in my directory (and that of anyone else that did an update instead of an uninstall/install) and the DGM was not told to remove them. These are issues that Stardock knows about and is theirs to address, and my comments about them was a reminder to them.

Continuation of "GCTech.TECH" -

In the definition of "TECH 26 Hyperspace"
in the second sentence of the description text "... temporary creation of flaws 'cosmic strings' in space/time ..." looks uncomfortable. I think SD will have to look at it to determine just what it should say. For instance, is it trying to say that cosmic strings are flaws that are created, as in "... temporary creation of flaws ('cosmic strings') in space/time ..."? Is the word "flaws" extranious? Etc..

In the definition of "TECH 25 AntimatterWeapons"
There are many places in this definition that use "anti-matter" that should read "antimatter".

In the definition of "TECH 27 TerrorWeapons"
in the description text the second word "sub-sonic" should read "subsonic".

In the definition of "TECH 49 _2DPhasing"
in the second sentence of the description text "The fifth space dimension available for our use." should read "The fifth space dimension is now available for our use. "

In the definition of "TECH 54 ControlledGravity"
in the second sentence of the overview text "Controled gravity make it easier on for our ships ..." should read "Controlled gravity makes it easier for our ships ..."

In the definition of "TECH 51 _3DPhasing" and "TECH 56 SpacialRifts"
The entire description text of these techs is from GC/OS2 and includes that game's premise that the colony ship "Santa Maria" got thrown from the Milky Way to another galaxy. It needs to be changed to be consistant with the premise of GC/Win (that the game occurs IN the Milky Way with Earth as the home planet of the Terrans).

In the definition of "TECH 63 NanoFrequencyElectronics"
in the last sentence of the description text "... Nano-Electronics has enable us to process ..." should read "... Nano-Electronics has enabled us to process ..." or "... Nano-Electronics enables us to process ..."

In the definition of "TECH 23 Battleship5"
in the third sentence of the description text "They ships are cheap and powerful weapons." should read "The ships are cheap and powerful weapons." or "These ships are cheap and powerful weapons."

In the definition of "TECH 24 Replication"
in the overview text of the overview "... duplicate necessary item to help ..." should read "... duplicate necessary items to help ..."

In the definition of "TECH 73 UnambiguousCommunication"
in the first sentence of the description text "... precisely the way they undertand." should read "... precisely the way they understand."
in the second sentence of the description text "... merely communication into directly being able to communicate with a particular ..." should read "... merely communication into being able to communicate directly with a particular ..."

In the definition of "TECH 36 EvolutionControl"
the description text may need reworking. For example, the colony ships in GC/OS2 had much smaller capacity, making the following sentence seem reasonable "While some of these changes can be attributed to having a small gene pool (a typical colony may start out with less than 50,000 colonists), ...". With colony ships with a minimum capacity of 1 million this sentence no longer sounds reasonable. Other sentences have similar difficulties.

More on this file later.

This is extremely helpful. Thank you!

Continuing file "GCTech.TECH"

In the definition for "TECH 83 NearOmnipotence"
in the overview text "... referring to as the 'the console' were ..." should read "... referring to as 'the console' were ..."

In the definiton for "TECH 92 EnergyChanneling"
The texzt for the overview and the description are identical. Perhaps this is intended, or perhaps it is just another case of a place holder that SD needs to revisit.

In the definition for "TECH 95 Nanobots"
The use of hyphens in english words is becoming passe these days. I think that, while "nano-bots" is clearly a reduction of "nano-sized robots" in the usage it gets here in the overview and description, I think it would fit current trends of reducing usage of hyphens better to use "nanobots" instead.

In the definition for "TECH 96 BasicRepair"
in the description text - the single sentence is really two sentences that stand on their own. So, "... for starship survival, we have now ..." should read "... for starship survival. We have now ..."

In the definition for "TECH 98 InterstellarDamageControl"
I think the overview text will read better as ""This technology will allow us to vastly undo the battle damage received by our ships."
in the description text I think "... controlling the damage done to our ships." should read "... coordinating and speeding the repair of battle damage received by our ships."

In the definition for "TECH 100 AdvancedTrade"
in the third sentence of the description text "... potentially have a significant chunk of their economy and cultural influence." should read "... potentially have a significant impact on their economy and culture."

The overview and description text for the definition of "TECH 101 CulturalTrade" is identical to that in the definition of "TECH 100 AdvancedTrade"

In the definition for "TECH 102 ArtificialGravity"
in the description text it looks like "In a labratory setting we will be able ..." should read "In a labratory setting we are now able ..."

In the definition for "TECH 104 AdvancedDiplomacy"
in the overview text, is "... improve our diplomatic skills." better than "... improve our diplomacy skills."?
in the description text "... to improve on our ability to persuade alien leaders to do the right thing - do what we want them to do." should read "... to improve our ability to persuade alien leaders to do the right thing, that is, to do what we want them to do."

In the definition for "TECH 105 XenoManipulation"
in the overview text, should "... improve our diplomacy skills." read "... improve our diplomatic skills."?

In the definition for "TECH 18 XenoIntimidation"
in the first sentence of the description text "... our slaves (if they're luck) or bone flecked jam if they're unlucky." looks better to me as "... our slaves (if they're lucky) or bone flecked jam."

In the definition for "TECH 19 XenoTradePersuassion"
in the description text "... managed to persuade the alien civilizations ..." should read "... managed to convince the alien civilizations ...."

In the definition for "TECH 106 InterstellarBusiness"
in the description text "... reach out in new directions on how to sell products and goods not just to humans but to other civilizations ..." is more descriptive if it reads "... learn new methods to sell products and goods, not just to humans, but to other civilizations ..."

In the definition for "TECH 108 InterstellarCapitalism"
The overview text is identical to the overview text for "TECH 107 InterstellarMarketing" Perhaps - "This technology will enable us to extend capitalism to the farthest reaches of the galaxy, improving our economy and increasing our influence over other civilizations."

In the definition for "TECH 109 CulturalFocus"
the overview text is, again, a repeat of the previous two techs. "Focus" in this context kind of reminds me of advertising. Maybe something can be done along this vein?

In the definition for "TECH 110 XenoPropaganda"
The description text is empty. Could the overview text be reduced to its first sentence and its second sentence moved to the description? With an apppropreate change of tense for the description, of course.

In the definition for "TECH 111 TheBetterWay"
The overview is a repeat of several of the "comerse" techs just previously defined, such as " XenoTradePersuassion", but this tech seems to be of a definite and direct religious nature. How about something like "This technology will allow us to teach other races how much better our ways are."

In the definition for "TECH 112 TheDarkSide"
in the description text "... They're dead now. But those that ..." should read "... They're dead now. Those that ...". Also, I think the last sentence would have more impact if it was split up as "There is no evil or good. There is only power." I think it would be particularly stricking if the last sentence "There is only power." was in bold type. Or even all caps.

In the definition for "TECH 114 Hypertrade"
the overview text is identical to that in the definition for "TECH 113 Benevolence".

In the definition for "TECH 117 CulturalConquest"
The overview and description texts are identical to those for "TECH 116 CulturalMaximizing". Also, this tech sounds like it has an evil bent. Shouldn't it have an "Alignment_Category" statement in it?

I hesitate to comment on the text in the definition of "TECH 999 ImpossibleTech" since noone will see it unless they happen to browse this file, but:
in the description text "... is imposisble to ..." should read "... is impossible to ..."

In the definition for "TECH 122 MedicalTheory"
in the description text "... a whole range of technologies to research ..." should read "... to research a whole range of technologies ..."

Thus I have reached the end of this file.

More files will be in following posts.

In the file "Population01.EVENT"

In the description text "While faded and worn, signs life still ..." should read "While faded and worn, signs of life still ..."

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In the file "Research01.ANOMALY"

In the definition for "ANOMOLY Research01"
in the description text "By probing the spacial anomoly, ..." should read "By probing the spacial anomaly, ...".

In the definition for "ANOMOLY Research02"
in the description text "After probing the anomoly, ..." should read "After probing the anomaly, ..."

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In the file "shippak1.ship"

In the definition for "SHIP SurveyShip"
in the description text "An floating research ..." should read "A floating research ..."

In the definition for "SHIP SensorDrone"
in the description text "... drone is like out 2nd pair ..." should read "... drone is like a 2nd pair ..."

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In the file "shippak2.ship"

In the definition for "SHIP Overlord"
in the description text "... ready to whoop some ass." "Whoop"? As in "1: a sound expressive of eagerness, exuberance, or jubilation. ... 5: the smallest bit (didn't give a ~)? Or whomp (2: to defeat overwhelmingly)? Or Whip? or ...

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In the file "solderingabuility.ANOMALY"

In the definition for "ANOMOLY Morale" and "ANOMOLY Espionage",
in the description text "Our survey team have ..." should read "Our survey team has ..."

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I have finished scanning all of the text files I know of.

Hi Cari,

I think the vast majority of what I discovered were just simple typos, but I think a spell checker would not have been up to the task of finding a lot of them. That is a normal occurance with building a product, but I always felt that having several sets of eyes helps in finding them. And you wouldn't want to forget them before the files get frozen for the release build. Since reading that the beta 4 build will be the last pre-release build I thought it would be better to bring these up now.

Cheers,

Also, "less than 50,000 colonists" is incorrect diction. It should be "fewer than 50,000". Something to think about in the rewrite.