OK, I usually don't enjoy the planet descriptions that much, but at least this one made me chuckle:
Maises (Galaxy 1)
"Maises is reasonably notable for its fabulous Maisesian lethal water but beset by lethal disease."
Hilarious planet description
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Who said the sit coms were for the inhabitants?tadster wrote:Alright, I'm on a roll finding these so how about this one:
Arexe (Galaxy 1)
"The world Arexe is fabled for its exciting sit coms and its inhabitants' ancient loathing of sit coms."
Who wrote the logic for these things??
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Check this out to find out how these descriptions are generated. Look at paragraphs 13 and 14.
http://www.frontier.co.uk/games/elite/faq.html
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Messrs. Bell and Braben, quite a while ago. Since you ask so nicely, it works like this:tadster wrote:Who wrote the logic for these things??
- The game starts with the string (piece of text) “[14] is [22].”
- For each bracketed number in the string, it makes a selection from a table. Each entry in the table is a list of five strings. One of these is chosen in a semi-random way.
- The process is repeated until there are no bracketed numbers.
- Finally, each occurence of the text ”%H” is replaced with the name of the system, each occurence of “%I” with the name of the system followed by “ian” (e.g., “%I” for Lave produces Laveian), and each occurence of “%R” is replaced with a nonsense word generated in the same way as a planet name.
The complete substitution table is:
Code: Select all
0: fabled, notable, "well known", famous, noted
1: very, mildly, most, reasonably, ""
2: ancient, "[20]", great, vast, pink
3: "[29] [28] plantations", mountains, "[27]", "[19] forests", oceans
4: shyness, silliness, "mating traditions", "loathing of [5]", "love for [5]"
5: "food blenders", tourists, poetry, discos, "[13]"
6: "talking tree", crab, bat, lobst, "%R"
7: beset, plagued, ravaged, cursed, scourged
8: "[21] civil war", "[26] [23] [24]s", "[26] disease", "[21] earthquakes", "[21] solar activity"
9: "its [2] [3]", "the %I [23] [24]", "its inhabitants' [25] [4]", "[32]", "its [12] [13]"
10: juice, brandy, water, brew, "gargle blasters"
11: "%R", "%I [24]", "%I %R", "%I [26]", "[26] %R"
12: fabulous, exotic, hoopy, unusual, exciting
13: cuisine, "night life", casinos, "sit coms", "[32]"
14: "%H", "The planet %H", "The world %H", "This planet", "This world"
15: "n unremarkable", " boring", " dull", " tedious", " revolting"
16: planet, world, place, "little planet", dump
17: wasp, moth, grub, ant, "%R"
18: poet, "arts graduate", yak, snail, slug
19: tropical, dense, rain, impenetrable, exuberant
20: funny, weird, unusual, strange, peculiar
21: frequent, occasional, unpredictable, dreadful, deadly
22: "[1] [0] for [9]", "[1] [0] for [9] and [9]", "[7] by [8]", "[1] [0] for [9] but [7] by [8]", "a[15] [16]"
23: "[26]", mountain, edible, tree, spotted
24: "[30]", "[31]", "[6]oid", "[18]", "[17]"
25: ancient, exceptional, eccentric, ingrained, "[20]"
26: killer, deadly, evil, lethal, vicious
27: "parking meters", "dust clouds", "ice bergs", "rock formations", volcanoes
28: plant, tulip, banana, corn, "%Rweed"
29: "%R", "%I %R", "%I [26]", inhabitant, "%I %R"
30: shrew, beast, bison, snake, wolf
31: leopard, cat, monkey, goat, fish
32: "[11] [10]", "%I [30] [33]", "its [12] [31] [33]", "[34] [35]", "[11] [10]"
33: meat, cutlet, steak, burgers, soup
34: ice, mud, "Zero-G", vacuum, "%I ultra"
35: hockey, cricket, karate, polo, tennis
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They also had to check carefully that the planet name generation, did not produce any offensive words. there is an oft quoted but incorrect assertion that there is a planet Arse, but unfortrunately it does not exist......yet!! Someone's bound to produce an OXP with a gas giant.....
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