lost in translation in opt_in_update - v4.2 preview

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Hello!

 

It to informe you that all the letters with aacent in the french version are no longuer show and it make the game lost it coffort to play. As all the letters with accent are voyelles (a,e,i,o,u), t cn mk sme tinghs vry hrd to rad and to ndertsnd as the french language use them a lot.

 

Aslo some little thing: why the close word have been translated as 'proche' (meaning near in english) instead of 'fermer'. It as you where saying that: you near a window; instead of saying: you close a window. It make no sens.

 

Another funny one: translating scouting by 'éclairage' (or 'clairage' in the lastest beta ;) ) make no sens as 'éclairage' means the action to put under ligth as the quality of the ligth created by a lamp. While it is true that 'éclaireur ' is rigthly tranlated as scout, the rigth translation for scouting is 'reconnaissance'. So : a scout do some scouting; is tranlated as: 'un éclaireur fait de la reconnaisance'. And no: a scout do some ligthing (if you use the word 'éclairage' for the translation.  A funny tranlating wordplay. (and yes, I know ligthing can mean ligth or electricity, I just add more fun to this ;) as you can think of a vessel made of ligth or electricity for a scouting's vessel).

 

I Keep the good work, And don't forget translating will never be a perfect thing (to much words have many sens that can vary from language to language.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

HEllo! It agaim me.

 

Just to keep all the translate funny errors in the same place. This one isn't really a translating thing, but it happen in the last built too.

 

At the begining of the turn you can get a window with a diplomatique message where a civilisation invite you to go to war again another civilisation and they even ready to give you credits if you accept. The name of this other civilisation isn't show what I see is :

'the Iridium corporation prensent you an opportinuty: the {PLAYERFACTIONLONG are dangerous, and we will....' as the correct long name of the faction that want me to go to war is show and not the other it look like someone have done an mindless error (probably something like erasing the } at the end of the variable's name) tht show the variable's name insteed of the content of the same variable.

 

 

I am posting all that small error to make a great game nearest of the perfection. They don't breack the game per se. But they broke my immertion (and some of them are view very often) in while I play this game and with the announce of galciv 4, we are getting nearer of the final patch for galciv3.

 

Have a nice day!

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