Spelling/Grammar Corrections

[dumb]

I hope this is helpful rather than annoying. But here it goes. This is a list of spelling/grammer issues:

Game Difficulties
Basic:
"Fuel Use?" (should have info)
"Death" (other settings use the term "Permanent Death"... maybe better to be consistent)

Hard:
"Hard is crosses into...." (should read "Hard crosses into...")
"with stringent starting..." ("with a stringent")

Crazy:
"with odd's against..." (should read "with odds against")
", and your skills will..." (is a run-on sentence)

Also, as a note, for the first few difficulties, you use the terms like "Basic Difficulty" and "Normal Difficulty"... but once you get to "Difficult" you drop the "Difficulty". I'm a big believer in consistency. Also, on "Insane" its written "Almost all..." That being the hardest difficulty, is there a reason not all are included? Maybe a typo?

Professions:
Merchant:
"...Spice Hall be aware..." (should read "Spice Hall and be aware")
"...dangerous places and find..."(should have a comma after "places")

Bounty Hunter:
"Land, Spice Hall and StarDock" (should have comma and read "Land, Spice Hall, and Star Dock"

Explorer:
"fringer" (should be "fringe"?)

Captain:
"...appreciable skills, however he..." (run on... should read "appreciable skills. However, he..."

Faction
De Valtos:
"...most powerful Syndicates the De Valtos" (should have comma after "Syndicates")
"they are granted a License" (you are using capitalization for important game concepts. But it looks like the word here does not mean trading license in the same sense)
At the end of the first paragraph, there should be a period

Cadar:
First paragraph is not really a sentence. Most of the other descriptions use full sentences.

Rychart:
Remove the "+" from the beginning of the second paragraph.
Last line just says "Syndicate Rychart."

Thulun:
Remove extra space at the beginning of last sentence.

Javat:
"Clan Javat & best source of..." (not sure what is meant here)
"...need there..." (should be "need their")
The 2nd paragraph should be reworked, seems like a double run-on. Maybe.... "Clan Javat is the best source of Clan Goods. As such, it is a vital source of trade. Many Operatives of the Great Houses need their alliances."

Steel Song:
First paragraph not a full sentence.
"Feature"... should have a paragraph break before it.

[Cory Trese]

Applied for the next release of Elite and RPG.

YOU ROCK!!!

[dumb]

(oops... the comment on the "Insane" setting was wrong... there is a harder level... it just never noticed it since the way the droid X does dropdowns, it doesn't automatically show a scroll bar)

[dumb]

I'll go through other parts of the game when I get some time.

[dumb]

Here are a few more:

Create New Character

De Valtos:
- Needs a period at the end of the paragraph.

Cadar
- Remove extra space before the comma in the first sentence.
- “THey” should be “They”

Steel Song
- Add a comma after “from a Military standpoint”
- Needs a period at the end of the last line.
The Star Trader
- In keeping with capitalizing game concepts… the word “attributes” should be capitalized.

Rumor text
“In <date> we heard about a huge series of taxes have been passed….” Either should be “that have been passed” or “we heard a huge series of taxes have been passed.

[Cory Trese]

all fixed in the next version

[jtwood]

I just died on an exploration. The log said that my wounds would not prove fatal. Then I died.

Not really a bug. Just might want to add a different log entry if the wound will prove fatal.

[elliotzahtz]

Unless you've added a cosmetics commodity, I think you've got alot of "Rouge" when you mean "Rogue."

[Cory Trese]

"Your ship carries a Trade Permit for any Exchanges owned or operated by {0} and you are officially a Rouge Trader with authorization to cargo restricted goods."

what you do not want to travel with a license for makeup?

(Grammar Robots dispatched to the scene.)

[jtwood]

Promotion paragraph in the palace: Should be precede...

[darkmonk]

Copy captain from free "high level characters may take a several seconds to copy" either change to a few seconds, or drop the a.

In Spice Halls, "among the crowed you see x men who would serve a captain such as yourself." Should be crowd

Urban zone text - Cadar Prime "...Cadar Prime exists to awe and Syndicate and Independent visitors alike."
The Dock, Exchange, and Spice Hall at Cadar Prime urban zone menu all refer to Cedar Capital City...." Change to Cadar.
Along depart menu at top while docked at Cadar Prime, city listed as "Cedar Capital City".

[matthew]

As of 2.7:

Tutorial:
"Your Command Interface displays the Date, you Water-Fuel level..."

Date shouldn't be caps, should read "...your water-fuel level..."

Patching and Hull Repair:
You must keep your Hull patched. If it reaches Zero the Crew will die and you will loose.

hull, zero and crew shouldn't be caps. Loose = lose.

Heal Captain:
"... you will loose"

Gather:
"We were able to recover x ingots of The Metal from..."

should read "...x ingots of Metal from..." (I think... maybe you intended this one).

More to follow...

[Cory Trese]

"If it reaches zero, the Captain will die and the game will end."

fixed in the next version.

All those fixes has been applied thanks for the post!

The game's design and text capitalize key phrases. Sometimes I go a Little crazy with the Capitalization.

Words like Hull, Captain, Crew, Faction and Pilot are on purpose. Things like The, Zero, Date, Time, Your, Value, ect are all just mistakes I made trying to ready the game for publication.

You might not believe it but the Star Traders Elite UI has over 5,000 strings!

[darwish]

Those commas for example:

Bounty Hunter:
"Land, Spice Hall and StarDock" (should have comma and read "Land, Spice Hall, and Star Dock"

are used in American English. You don't need to add a comma after Spice Hall on International and British English you know.

Anyways, well done dumb on spotting them grammar mistakes.

[Cory Trese]

Also international technical standards for military and industrial documentation follows the British English standard.

If you can't guess from the run on sentences and preferences for long strings of numbers ... =)

So I don't use a comma here. I follow ALL of dumb's other advice and admit that I can only spell and write when heavily assisted by a computer.