Talk:Ultima IX transcript

I just wanted to point out how awesome you are for doing this, Iceblade. This is a big job, and having a complete Ultima IX transcript along with complete book transcript will be cool. Dungy 19:32, 20 March 2012 (PDT)

This wouldn't even have been possible without the 1.19f patch. Those variable names and IDs have been invaluable for this work. - Iceblade

And, it should be added, that you've chosen a very important transcript, since of all the transcripts we have available, the one for U9 has been among the most unreadable and unreliable. The Ultra-Mind 20:21, 21 March 2012 (PDT)

Dang, I've completed so many areas and yet I'm only half way through. I have only 5 more areas left excluding really long NPCs like Raven and LB. Oh well, 50% is still pretty good. Just 98 more to go. - Iceblade

I feel your pain after doing Ultima IV, Ultima VI, Martian Dreams, and Savage Empire. :P Dungy 17:46, 25 July 2012 (PDT)

Keep on trucking, Iceblade! Dungy 14:11, 5 February 2013 (PST)

Down to 10 now or really I should say down to 9 and a 20-in-1. Seriously Raven has more dialogue than entire towns. And complexity-wise... let's just say there are a lot of variables I have to check. Expect at least 50,000 more bytes for this one NPC. - Iceblade 17:40, 5 February 2013 (PST)

Reading the transcripts makes it painfully clear just how bad the Ultima IX dialogues are. Even that alone already makes you work worth.--Tribun 17:46, 5 February 2013 (PST)

Two more down, two to go. Saving the Worst for Last. I wonder if this will hit the full megabyte.... looks at incomplete notes for Raven.... YES! - Iceblade 19:59, 6 February 2013 (PST)

Bugs?

You can only ask Raphael's name if you know his name? Finding lots of bugs to fix, are we? Dungy 15:48, 6 February 2013 (PST)

I probably won't be fixing these. When we finally hook in a dll to allow for adding dialog, we'll be focused on creating all new dialog from scratch rather attempting to fix the old. Besides, I already have a ton of more important bugs to fix. Though I suppose I could change the initial state of this name variable so that you will always be able to ask the name, but I think that would just open up more issues, since it leads to pre-cleansing topics when you ask for it even if the shrine is cleansed. - Iceblade 16:57, 6 February 2013 (PST)

Done!

HURRAY!!! I am basically finished with this. I still need to go back through and check on a few things here and here for consistency, but this transcript is effectively finished. - Iceblade 01:20, 3 March 2013 (PST)

Amazing work. You've done a LOT of great working improving and expanding upon our Ultima IX sections. I never could have done this. What's next, other than of course releasing an awesome new version of Forgotten Worlds? :P Dungy 04:27, 3 March 2013 (PST)

Fixing up U9 NPC articles, improving U9 icon images, and continuing to rewrite and improve the U9 dungeon solutions. - Iceblade 14:13, 3 March 2013 (PST)

Encyclopedic cleanup

Do we cleanup material like this--taken from other web sites? I've already done a little bit of that, but there other things that are very unencyclopedic like the some of the text in variable names like "PISSED" and "DISSED" (which I imagine are not canonical), and even a place where the first person is used, referring to an editor.--The Ultra-Mind (talk) 15:23, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

How complete is it now?

Could we get a completion check? I noticed that Signal_Fire_Lit_By_Stranger is used, but never set. This means if it is initialized to false, then the part where Raven says she had to kill Commander Hays is never executed.--The Ultra-Mind (talk) 08:42, 1 May 2023 (MDT)