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SP Happenings #147

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by Taluntain, Apr 21, 2006.

  1. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Despite the lingering server issues resulting in small bouts of downtime more or less every day for the last 7 days (yes, I'll be just as happy as you when this is all finally taken care of), I got quite a lot done on the SP content updates front. I've already got a considerable amount of new stuff ready for the update, but I decided to give it another day or two to add some more before it finally goes live. Sorry to everyone who's sent in content and had to wait so long for it to go up - it'll all go up very soon now, I promise.

    Unfortunately, due to Catbert's real life issues and commitments the work on the new site layout is pretty much at the same point where it's been a year ago. This isn't all bad, because I've come up with some substantial concept changes to it since then, but it's still long overdue. A project the size of SP requires at least a part-time coder, so being without one for longer periods of time means that stuff starts piling up... besides the site layout, the message boards software switch has also been on hold (because I wanted to get the layout done first), but considering the current state of things, I'll be pushing the boards update ahead if I can find a coder able to assist me in the transition, which won't be easy or fast.

    As a bit of trivia info I can also mention that I started something I've been putting off for a long time - getting the Planescape: Torment character quotes into our "Hourly Quote" system. The problem with Planescape: Torment in this respect is that unlike the Baldur's Gate series, the party character quotes are, for the large part, only recorded as sounds, or scattered throughout the dialogues in such a way that it's impossible (as far as I can tell) to extract them through any even remotely automated means. Which means that I have to sit down and wade through all the character dialogues, as well as to listen to all the character sound files, and transcribe a large number of quotes. Which, for any other game, would probably be a task so tedious and unrewarding that I wouldn't even consider it, but I think Planescape: Torment is worth this tribute paid in my time. I probably won't be finished with this anytime soon (as you probably know, the amount of dialogue in PS:T is staggering), but eventually all the party member quotes will be available to everyone visiting Sorcerer's Place. To date, I've got all of Ignus' and Vhailor's quotes extracted, but not in the online system yet. I'm not sure if I should put them in one by one, or wait until I've got them all extracted (which will probably take quite some time, depending on how much attention I can give it on a regular basis).

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    Taluntain, Apr 21, 2006
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  2. Nakia

    Nakia The night is mine Distinguished Member ★ SPS Account Holder Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Re quotes from Planescape:Torment:

    Please put them in as you have them and don't wait to get all of them.
     
    Nakia, Apr 21, 2006
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