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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0006626 | Valley 1 | Suggestion - UI Ideas | Mar 13, 2012 6:52 pm | Mar 13, 2012 8:47 pm | |
| Reporter | tbogue | Assigned To | Chris_McElligottPark | ||
| Status | closed | Resolution | won't fix | ||
| Product Version | 0.905 | ||||
| Summary | 0006626: better name for upgrade stones | ||||
| Description | I don't like the name upgrade stone. How about vital essence? | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Internal Weight | New | ||||
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No. Sorry you don't like it, but it's clear and descriptive, which is absolutely what is needed here. New player confusion trumps a desire for thematic fluff in this case. |
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Maybe Ilari Upgrade Stones? Pieces of destroyed Ilari? |
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Now we're just adding wordiness. I'm quite fond of "upgrade stones." I don't think it's any worse than "EXP capsule" or "heart piece" or "heart container" or "powerup" or "1up" or a host of other names I could probably think up for various accepted game terms in other games. ;) |
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How about "Upgrade Shards"? that sort of presents them as a form of consciousness shards without adding words or losing clarity. |
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Right, now we're over-using the word shard, and people can't use the word "shard" as shorthand anymore. You run into problems with people saying "shard" and meaning one thing or the other, and getting confused talking to one another. You have to remember I used to design business software (including a lot of GUI design) before doing games for a living, so I think through the names of common GUI elements pretty carefully. They have to be distinct but memorable, and things that are synonyms have to be very carefully distinct or else you run into confusion, etc. I had to let go a support person once because she couldn't stop mixing up terminology and confusing the hell out of our customers. When she couldn't remember the right word, she'd just make up whatever synonym, and often it would clash with something else, and the client would wind up really confused. (Of course, there were some simplifications that wound up having to be made to the software anyhow, and that was just indicative of other problems with her in general, but still -- distinct terminology is something really dear to my heart). |
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Fair enough. My only problem with the "stones" part was\is a lack of (visible) lore justification for why exactly they do what they do... It's the "So...how does this rock increase my health? wait, what is my character even doing to "use" these things" train of thought. |
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Sure, and now we can get into inventing whatever that fits. We already have guardian stones that you talk to the Ilari through, though, so I figured that there's some good coupling there as it is. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| Mar 13, 2012 6:52 pm | tbogue | New Issue | |
| Mar 13, 2012 7:07 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Internal Weight | => New |
| Mar 13, 2012 7:07 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0020837 | |
| Mar 13, 2012 7:07 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Status | new => closed |
| Mar 13, 2012 7:07 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Assigned To | => Chris_McElligottPark |
| Mar 13, 2012 7:07 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Resolution | open => won't fix |
| Mar 13, 2012 7:49 pm | Bluddy | Note Added: 0020840 | |
| Mar 13, 2012 8:09 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0020841 | |
| Mar 13, 2012 8:23 pm | Terraziel | Note Added: 0020842 | |
| Mar 13, 2012 8:28 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0020843 | |
| Mar 13, 2012 8:41 pm | Terraziel | Note Added: 0020844 | |
| Mar 13, 2012 8:47 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0020845 |
