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Fixing form of adress for Nathaniel

Jason

Jason

Buccaneer
Storm Modder
Ok so I am back on the forum, playing the conitnually imporving best game of the genre and having a few ideas. I don't want to be a pest, but:

Wouldn't be nice if the dialouge distinguished the appropriate form of address for Nathanial.

For example should probably always address him as Nathanial.
More formal address should be [rank] Hawk as in Comodore Hawk or Admiral Hawk. In England the form of address for a knight would be Sir Nathaniel, I am not sure about the other languages but in Spanish I think it is Don. I am also not sure of the form of address the aristocratic titiles but I am sure we will have people in the forum who know.

I know this doesn't affect game play and I don't really know how difficult it would be to fix, but in game so full of sophisticated features maybe we could this cleaned up in the near future I would be will to work on it.

My least favorite address is the one by the guy who meets you on Greenford. "They told to meet a captain named Comodore, or Captain, etc".

Also the picture we are using of the albatross is actually a seagull. Albatrosses are much bigger and darker, and I don't think they are found in the Carribean. Now the Magnificent Frigatebird is but I think it is a symbol of good luck, not bad luck.


I will look for images to post if anyone cares about this bird.
 
oops! that was supposed to be Danielle should probably always address him as Nathaniel.

Sorry for got to proof it.
 
Good thought, Jason, I'll fix that pic, it SHOULD be an Albatross. (it was called a cormorant before, LOL!)...

I think we're working on the addressing system in the game - going to be a big job since it's not consistent throughout the dialog (which is why you get the "Captain Commodore" address)... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
 
The answer to that question is YES. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

Interesting you bring this up though, was just writing a post on it.
Please don't feel I'm stealing your thunder by posting it in a separate thread; my reason is I think we should address all dialog problems at once, and we need a general clearinghouse.
 
Here, I worked up a better pic of the albatross - and have uploaded the file to the FTP for inclusion in the new modpack -

<img src="http://www.ganotherapyusa.com/extras/alba.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />

The file on the FTP is <span style='color:red'>items7.tga.tx</span> and should be placed in this directory - <span style='color:blue'>Pirates of the Caribbean\RESOURCE\Textures\INTERFACES\</span> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheeky" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />

Nevermind that the albatross is not found in the Caribbean - it's dead... And any ship in the Caribbean could theoreticallly have been in the south (say the Falklands, for instance) where you might find an albatross...

The curse of the dead albatross is from the poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" <a href="http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Rime_Ancient_Mariner.html" target="_blank">http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridg...nt_Mariner.html</a> by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
 
Nice! ('Here, pretty bird...')
As always. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

Though...sorry to nitpick, but could you make it look more, err, dead? In a way it's _too_ nice...
 
As Always, Magnificent Cat! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
NK -- We will need a general clearing house and several pairs of eyes on this.

I am willing to work on it but will need direction. It will be essential to get all the dialog downloaded in a text file, then we will need some to help with forms of address in each language for the various ranks and levels of nobility and some good proof readers (which I am not).

Also what are your thoughts about timing the work.

Let me know. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/poet.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":hmm" border="0" alt="poet.gif" />
 
Thanks, Jason, glad you like him. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />

<!--QuoteBegin-NathanKell+Jun 26 2005, 07:53 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(NathanKell @ Jun 26 2005, 07:53 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->  could you make it look more, err, dead? <div align="right">[snapback]119095[/snapback]</div><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sick.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":eww" border="0" alt="sick.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> Well, I could turn him upside down and put an "x" where his eye should be... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />

I actually found a pic of a dead albatross but it wasn't very nice... Kinda horrifying, actually. REALLY horrifying...

Albatrosses ARE beautiful birds... I'd hate to make him look... Well, DEAD... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad.gif" />

Akella's cormorant/seagull wasn't dead, either... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dunno.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":shrug" border="0" alt="dunno.gif" />

<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":facepalm" border="0" alt="mybad.gif" /> I'll see what I can do... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheeky" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />
 
All right... I found a dead one that wasn't quite so horrifying... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />

<img src="http://www.ganotherapyusa.com/extras/dead_alb.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />

This like what you're looking for, Nathan? I think it should work (but I'm keeping the other skin for myself!). <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":yes" border="0" alt="yes.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />

It's not up yet on the FTP, just want to hear this is what you want, and I'll get it up there... I can change it to something different, it's no real big problem...
 
Hmmm.... Nice albatross, but where is the head? I thought it was a fishy at first. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dunno.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":shrug" border="0" alt="dunno.gif" />
 
Nice one, Cat! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/me.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":onya" border="0" alt="me.gif" />

Rico... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/razz.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":razz" border="0" alt="razz.gif" /> It's lying "upside-down"... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile2.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":))" border="0" alt="smile2.gif" /> The head is down to the lower left corner, heheh! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":yes" border="0" alt="yes.gif" />
 
I had to turn the monitor upside down to see it... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":facepalm" border="0" alt="mybad.gif" />
 
Heh, don't mind me... My nose runs, and my feet smell, ergo, I was built upside-down! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/razz.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":razz" border="0" alt="razz.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

<sound of Catalina's footsteps, running away before she gets hit with rotten tomatoes!> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="icon_wink.gif" />
 
<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> Good one, Rico! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile2.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":))" border="0" alt="smile2.gif" />

And no tomatoes, Cat! Just some bird droppings, perhaps? <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whistling.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":wp" border="0" alt="whistling.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />
 
Oh even worse... At least the tomatoes would be good for my skin! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/24.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rofl" border="0" alt="24.gif" />
 
Cat,

I haven't heard the joke since the 4th grade.


Bad kitty! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whippa.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":whipa" border="0" alt="whippa.gif" /> LOL
 
Be nice to Cat... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/razz.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":razz" border="0" alt="razz.gif" /> Only dead albies may drop on her! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

First time I ever heard that one though! Heheheh! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/me.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":onya" border="0" alt="me.gif" />
 
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