Expanding Unit Descriptions

**Cryoshakespeare** · November 18, 2015, 04:43 AM

Hey guys,

I'm aware that this is hardly on the list of priorities, but I was wondering if two things were going to make it onto the unit descriptions, namely

- The pronunciation of the vernacular term for the unit

- Advanced unit details (ie. mass, weapon types and damage, etc.)

As always, obligatory (but well deserved) praise for the EB team, you guys are awesome

**Cryoshakespeare** · November 18, 2015, 06:54 PM

You know, personally I'm proud that this has had 130 views and not a single reply. Now if only this thread could be locked so I could look back someday to the glory of a post of mine that only I replied to c: .-*living the dream*-.

**HaHawk** · November 18, 2015, 07:08 PM

Originally Posted by Cryoshakespeare

You know, personally I'm proud that this has had 130 views and not a single reply.

There are at least 130 people that browse this forum on a daily basis, maybe even a lot more, but that doesn't mean any of them can respond to your post. Only a specific member of the EBII team can answer this kind of question...

**Cryoshakespeare** · November 19, 2015, 07:14 AM

Originally Posted by HaHawk

There are at least 130 people that browse this forum on a daily basis, maybe even a lot more, but that doesn't mean any of them can respond to your post. Only a specific member of the EBII team can answer this kind of question...

I'm aware, I'm aware, I just found it amusing

It's pretty great actually to know there are over a hundred regular browsers of this forum.

Oh and Sylon, a recruitment viewer would be absolutely sweet. I wonder how hard XML parsing actually is...

**myarta** · November 22, 2015, 01:32 PM

Originally Posted by Cryoshakespeare

I'm aware, I'm aware, I just found it amusing

It's pretty great actually to know there are over a hundred regular browsers of this forum.

Oh and Sylon, a recruitment viewer would be absolutely sweet. I wonder how hard XML parsing actually is...

I'd say the work really is in parsing regular text rather than XML, at least as far as parsing EDB, EDU, descr_regions, etc.

At some point you might want to make an actual map so you might need to read some XML with regards to their config, but I think the map is just a TGA and the climate files etc are probably irrelevant to listing units recruitable.

A Recruitment Viewer would be MUCH more complicated for EB2, because instead of 4 types of government that everyone makes, plus 5 tiers of factional and 5 tiers of native barracks, now we have a far more complex network of faction government buildings, with many factions having as many as 7 or 8 options just in factional, plus various levels of allied.

I think with client rulers specifically QS mentioned at one point that they're accepting placeholder text. I laughed when I saw in-game one of the placeholders which was just a quote from someone posting on the forum that they'd much rather have the rulers in-game with no description or text but functional for RP / governance reasons than delay it to Autumn Release but with full text :-D

**Sylon** · November 18, 2015, 07:53 PM

If memory serves, z3n had an acquintance who was working on some sort of XML parser that could be used to make a program much like EB1's recruitment viewer. I haven't heard any updates on that front recently, however.

**Baharr** · November 21, 2015, 07:36 PM

There was a submod that did this exact thing (expanded unit cards) when the first playable versions of EB2 came out, IIRC.

Maybe it'll get updated for the Autumn Release?

**Imperial Pudding Head** · November 22, 2015, 08:36 AM

While this would be a cool idea wouldn't it be better to expand unit descriptions on the few units that sadly still have little or even no description? Namely the Client Rulers

And a little suggestion for the team how about asking for help from the forum members like you guys did for the regional description?