Re: A quick guide to writing your signature:
Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2017 9:25 pm
Hi all, I started AT just a few months ago. I just started the forums a couple days ago. This is my first post since I wanted to create my signature.
But I'm not sure if anyone will see this - the last post is more than 3 years ago.
But here goes:
What fiernaq said 3 or 4 posts above about a button in the game to capture and format stats to put in a signature is not necessary. Anyone could create a tiny separate app to read the latest saved game file and extract all that info, format it, and put it in a text file or the clipboard ready to post. Then everyone could have their stats in a common format. A text file could also serve as a kind of history log. A verbose option to list the full names of items (default would be the abbreviations used in signatures), a complete option to list all items in inventory, and a global option to list items in any stashes left anywhere in AT world.
So as I wrote my signature, I found that I have 2 Legendary and Extraordinary Items (L&EI:2) that are not listed in any L&EI lists that I found. They are:
Flagstone's pride (LsFP - Longsword Flagstone's Pride) and Serpent's hauberk (AlSH - Armor (light) Serpent's Hauberk), both Extraordinary which I decided to mark as Bold in my signature. Why do people put a number 1 after their L&EI's? I wonder if there are any other L&EI's hiding in the game?
I also made up abbreviations for my other equipment using prefixes from the item category: Ls (Longsword), Al (Armor (light), H (Headwear), N (Necklaces), R (Rings), G (Gloves), F (Footwear). Those are followed by Capitals for First Letter in Important Word, and lower case for first letter of unimportant words (e.g. of) or letters inside words (e.g. RVil is Villain's ring), but not repeating a Category word (e.g. Polished ring of backstabbing is RPoBs, not RPRoBs). This should abbreviate just about all equipment items in the game. I chose to code light for Serpent's hauberk and Enhanced combat helmet (HlEC) because that affects Light Armor Proficiency. Maybe a "project" is needed to assign abbreviations to all equipment items.
But I'm not sure if anyone will see this - the last post is more than 3 years ago.
But here goes:
What fiernaq said 3 or 4 posts above about a button in the game to capture and format stats to put in a signature is not necessary. Anyone could create a tiny separate app to read the latest saved game file and extract all that info, format it, and put it in a text file or the clipboard ready to post. Then everyone could have their stats in a common format. A text file could also serve as a kind of history log. A verbose option to list the full names of items (default would be the abbreviations used in signatures), a complete option to list all items in inventory, and a global option to list items in any stashes left anywhere in AT world.
So as I wrote my signature, I found that I have 2 Legendary and Extraordinary Items (L&EI:2) that are not listed in any L&EI lists that I found. They are:
Flagstone's pride (LsFP - Longsword Flagstone's Pride) and Serpent's hauberk (AlSH - Armor (light) Serpent's Hauberk), both Extraordinary which I decided to mark as Bold in my signature. Why do people put a number 1 after their L&EI's? I wonder if there are any other L&EI's hiding in the game?
I also made up abbreviations for my other equipment using prefixes from the item category: Ls (Longsword), Al (Armor (light), H (Headwear), N (Necklaces), R (Rings), G (Gloves), F (Footwear). Those are followed by Capitals for First Letter in Important Word, and lower case for first letter of unimportant words (e.g. of) or letters inside words (e.g. RVil is Villain's ring), but not repeating a Category word (e.g. Polished ring of backstabbing is RPoBs, not RPRoBs). This should abbreviate just about all equipment items in the game. I chose to code light for Serpent's hauberk and Enhanced combat helmet (HlEC) because that affects Light Armor Proficiency. Maybe a "project" is needed to assign abbreviations to all equipment items.