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Do you prefer using numerical characters or alphabetical characters when using numbers in game?
Numerical
10%
 10%  [ 2 ]
Alphabetical
25%
 25%  [ 5 ]
Either or, depends on my mood.
65%
 65%  [ 13 ]
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 Post Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 10:44 am    Post subject: 1 or one
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Do you prefer using numerical characters or alphabetical characters when using numbers in game? I'd also like to hear the opinions associated with each preference.
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 Post Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 10:46 am    Post subject: Re: 1 or one
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One. It's a text based game and when I sit down to play it, I don't think about the numerical systems that keep it working. I think of it like a novel I'm writing.

Novels use the alphabetical.
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 Post Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 11:00 am    Post subject:
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Personally, I would prefer numericals. It's just more efficient and, dare I say it, easier than typing out the alphabetical. Not to mention you can essentially have an infinite amount of items in a container and be able to grab any single one of them (granted that you can count up to its location). You can always go for adjectives, sure, but even that gets a bit too complicated sometimes.

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 Post Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 11:47 am    Post subject:
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I said either. I prefer typing it out, but it's easier on my hand to use numbers.
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 Post Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:14 pm    Post subject:
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Generally I think one, but it depends. Imagine:

You have five million seven hundred eighty-three thousand two hundred thirty-three credits in your bank account.

Or:

Appraisal : Seventy-Three (Fifty-One Percent)
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 Post Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 1:14 pm    Post subject:
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Gramatically, you're supposed to write out the numbers zero to ten, and everything after that you're supposed to use digits.
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 Post Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 1:28 pm    Post subject:
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Okay, so:

Appraisal : Seven (51%)
Lockpicking : 15 (eight percent)
Windsurfing : 9 (1%)
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 Post Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 1:33 pm    Post subject:
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Okay, so:

Appraisal : Seven (51%)
Lockpicking : 15 (eight percent)
Windsurfing : 9 (1%)


Percentages should always show up as numbers and if you're showing a series of numbers in succession, the rule is to keep them all as digits (in the event even one is over ten).

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 Post Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 2:03 pm    Post subject:
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What about decimals? Negative numbers? Leap years?
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 Post Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 2:32 pm    Post subject:
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HR-Trevor wrote:
What about decimals? Negative numbers? Leap years?


You write all those out as digits!

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 Post Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 3:10 pm    Post subject:
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Of course, all "styles" of writing are flawed because they're not usually how the majority of people actually write...which makes it a little something like trying to tell people that British english is the correct way for America, when the majority of people don't speak or write that way.
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 Post Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 5:13 pm    Post subject:
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Brokyn wrote:
Personally, I would prefer numericals. It's just more efficient and, dare I say it, easier than typing out the alphabetical. Not to mention you can essentially have an infinite amount of items in a container and be able to grab any single one of them (granted that you can count up to its location). You can always go for adjectives, sure, but even that gets a bit too complicated sometimes.

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I had meant in the story-writing aspect of the game. In fact...I think I said using numericals for systems. Stuff like Trevor said would be one of the reasons to use numerals. When you're talking figures, you use numerals anyhow. Listing skills is an example of figures.

I don't have my character say anything about that sorta stuff. In fact, it's kinda OOC to talk about what numbers you have in skills.

When it comes to like...

get third ingot

I'd RATHER type get 3 ingot

Just because it's faster. However, in roleplay, whether I use SAY, ACT, SMILE or the like, I'd rather type out the number in letters.
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 Post Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 5:22 pm    Post subject:
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Yeah, I was replying to the poll question and not your post, so it's not like I intended to rebuff you or anything. And it turns out that I misinterpreted the poll question to begin with; I automatically thought of "GET 3/THREE POUCH" instead of "You have 3/THREE credits in the bank".

Oh, well. C'est la vie.

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 Post Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 5:26 pm    Post subject:
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Brokyn wrote:
Yeah, I was replying to the poll question and not your post, so it's not like I intended to rebuff you or anything. And it turns out that I misinterpreted the poll question to begin with; I automatically thought of "GET 3/THREE POUCH" instead of "You have 3/THREE credits in the bank".

Oh, well. C'est la vie.

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Ah, I wasn't being bitchy, I was simply clarrifying what I meant. It was mostly after reading Trevor's posts. I tend to delete the person's post when I comment, I just forgot this time.

Ooh, and suggestion:

It appears to be properly prepared for use in a potion or other mixture.
There appears to be thirty-five units worth of argurat pulp.

Can we get this turned numerical?

After all: You note the composition of the contents of the glass flask as 50 doses of copper dust, 50 doses of sirolei infusion, and 50 doses of argurat pulp.

It's just easier to see.
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 Post Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 7:34 pm    Post subject:
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I said either. But that's mostly because I type rather fast and spelling it out doesn't bother me a whole lot. ^_^
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