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That really should be wolves - yes? Or are wolfs not wolves? <grins> It occurs nine times in planetinfo.plist (I've changed mine).

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Given that Oolite takes place eight centuries in the future, it's only remarkable that English is so well-preserved Maybe it's thanks to the automated translators that convert the myriads of alien dialects into your own dialect.

Perhaps they are evil because they attempt to corrupt the language.

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Clearly there has been some linguistic drift over the centuries, and what they are now calling "tree wolfs" are the creatures that, in a more primitive time and place, were known as "drop bears".

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Both logical and utterly plausible!

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This is actually mildly close to the truth. (Except its a generator rather than translator.)

A planet might be "\x82\x81 for \x8A but \x88 by \x89"

where..
\x82 --> "very ", "mildly ", "most ", "reasonably ", ""
\x81 --> "fabled", "notable", "well known", "famous", "noted"
\x88 --> "beset", "plagued", "ravaged", "cursed", "scourged"
etc..

\x89 --> "\x96 civil war", "\x9B \x98 \x99s", "a \x9B disease", "\x96 earthquakes", "\x96 solar activity"
\x9B --> "killer", "deadly", "evil", "lethal", "vicious"
\x98 --> "\x9B", "mountain", "edible", "tree", "spotted"
\x99 --> "\x9F", "\xA0", "\x87oid", "\x93", "\x92"
\x9F --> "shrew", "beast", "bison", "snake", "wolf"

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On-topic: wolfs is a verb.

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Knowledge is a deadly friend, if no one sets the rules
The fate of all mankind, I see, is in the hands of fools

Oooohhh .. thank you!
/me sets ASC to Saloon.


(I have nothing on-topic. Sorry.)

Which begs the question, just what is the tree wolfing down?

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Most games have some sort of paddling-pool-and-water-wings beginning to ease you in: Oolite takes the rather more Darwinian approach of heaving you straight into the ocean, often with a brick or two in your pockets for luck. ~ Disembodied

Exactly!

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Knowledge is a deadly friend, if no one sets the rules
The fate of all mankind, I see, is in the hands of fools

Haven't you read your Tolkein? The trees are Ents, and Ents wolf wolves.

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Well played, sir!

I must've mis-read.. all this time, I thought Ents ate orcs and goblins.

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Most games have some sort of paddling-pool-and-water-wings beginning to ease you in: Oolite takes the rather more Darwinian approach of heaving you straight into the ocean, often with a brick or two in your pockets for luck. ~ Disembodied

Diziet Sma wrote, Well those orcs and goblins did ride wolves, but wolfing seems a bit hasty to me. Surely an ent would feel that anything worth eating is worth taking a long time to eat.

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Orcs? Goblins? Elves?

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Fictional lovelies. Sort of like low-tech Thargoids.

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